MARIE
GERRINA LOUIS
Born
in Kuala Lumpur in 1964, the eldest of 5 girls, I am married with 2 daughters
aged 14 and 4 respectively.
I
have been writing for 21 years now, starting with short stories and poetry for
local paper “New Thrill” and later, articles on general topics for
“STAR”. My first book - “The Shuttle Caper at Keating” -
(unpublished because I considered it too amateurish!)
was written when I was 17.
Wrote
3 radio plays for RTM’s “Radio Theatre” back in the 80's under the names
“Marie Gerrina Andrew” or “Gerrina Andrew”.
Wrote
the following children’s books for Delta Publications Sdn Bhd under the names
“Marie Gerrina Andrew” or “Gerrina Andrew” :-
The
Magic Bells
Little
Sasha
My
first break came in 1990 when my short story “Bequests of Love”, written
under the name “Marie Gerrina Louis” won a consolation prize at the NST-Shell
Short Story Competition. This story
together with the other winning entries have been compiled into a book called
“Haunting The Tiger & Other Stories” by Kee Thuan Chye.
I
won another consolation prize the next year at the same competition and the
story was called “Extenuating Circumstances”.
My
first book, “The Road To Chandibole”, written under the name “Marie
Gerrina Louis”, was published by Heinemann Asia, Singapore in 1994 and
re-published by SNP Publications Pte Ltd under their Raffles Imprint in 2000.
My
second book “Junos” was published by Heinemann Asia, Singapore in 1995.
My
third book “The Eleventh Finger” was published by SNP Publications Pte Ltd
under their Raffles Imprint in 2000. This
book was given an honourable mention at this year’s regional Commonwealth
Prize Competition held in Singapore, as being a “strong contender for Best
Novel”.
I
was also one of the authors whose work was chosen to be written about in Nor
Faridah Abdul Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum’s recent collaboration called
“Colonial to Global : Malaysian Women’s Writing In English 1940s - 1990s”.
15 Nov 2001