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Ovidia Yu
Singaporean writer
Ovidia Yu (born 1961) is a writer from Singapore who has published award-winning plays and short stories.
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She has won several awards, including the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore Foundation Culture Award (1996), the National Arts Council (NAC) Young Artist Award (1996) and the Singapore Youth Award (1997).[1] She has had more than thirty of her plays produced and is considered one of the most well-known writers in Singapore, according to HarperCollins Publishers.[2]
Early life
Yu was born in 1961 to a middle-class family in Singapore.
Her father was a doctor and her mother was a teacher. She attended Methodist Girls' School, where her mother taught, and developed a love for reading and writing at an early age. She became particularly interested in the characters that she read about and would continue their stories in her own 'sequels' to the books.
She was writing her own short stories by the time she wa