Edwin ThumbooBorn in Singapore in 1933, Edwin Thumboo is Emeritus Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He was previously Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (1980–1991) and Director Centre for the Arts (1993–2005), and also held Visiting Professorships in the UK, America, Austria, Australia and elsewhere. His poetry includes Rib of Earth (1956), Gods Can Die (1977), Ulysses by the Merlion (1979), A Third Map (1993), Still Travelling (2008), Best of Edwin Thumboo (2012), Word-Gate (2013) and A Gathering of Themes (2018). He has received the Singapore Cultural Medallion (1980), the ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award in Literature (1987), the Raja Rao Award (2002) and the Meritorious Service Medal Singapore (2006). Read More Read Less