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Stella Kon (née Lim Sing Po,[1] born 1944) is a Singaporean playwright. She is best known for her play, Emily of Emerald Hill, which has been staged internationally. She is a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award.

Stella Kon
Born	Lim Sing Po 1944 (age 77–78) Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation	Playwright
Nationality	British by birth; British Singapore by descent and residence; Singaporean by eventual nationality post-independence
Alma mater	National University of Singapore

Biography

Kon was born in Edinburgh in 1944.[2] She grew up in a mansion on Emerald Hill.[2] Kon's mother, Kheng Lim (or Rosie Seow),[1] was an actress who inspired her daughter's love of theatre.[3] Kon's father, Lim Kok Ann, got Kon interested in science and literature.[1] Kon was also related to Lim Boon Keng and Tan Tock Seng who were her maternal great-grandfather and paternal great-great grandfather respectively.[2] Kon attended Raffles Girls' School and then went on to the University of Singapore, where she earned a degree in philosophy.[1]

In 1967, after she was married, she moved to Malaysia for fifteen years.[2] For four years, she lived in Britain while her children were in school there.[2] In 1987, she returned to Singapore.[2]

Kon was awarded the Merit Award in the Singapore Literature Prize.[4] In 2008, she won the South East Asian Writers Award.[4] Kon was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.[4]

Work

Kon was first published in 22 Malaysian Stories (1962), with the work, Mushroom Harvest.[2] Kon won the Singapore National Playwriting Competition for three plays: The Bridge (1977), The Trial (1982) and for Emily of Emerald Hill (1983).[5]

Emily of Emerald Hill is a one-woman play that debuted in 1984 and was directed by Chin San Sooi.[3] The melodrama follows the life of a Peranakan woman who is married into a family she doesn't know at age 14 to a man twice her age.[6] The story was primarily inspired by Kon's grandmother, but also includes stories drawn from the rest of her extended family.[3] The Herald Sun wrote that the writing in Emily was "colorful and smartly written."[7] The Honolulu Star-Bulletin wrote that "The play is rich with the details of everyday life in a well-to-do Singaporeean Chinese family."[8] The play was performed at the Commonwealth Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1986.[5] It has also been performed in Hong Kong, Australia, the United States and in Germany.[2]

Kon's play, The Human Heart Fruit, was staged by Action Theatre in 2002 and starred Nora Samosir.[9] Kon's first musical, Exodus, was written with the composer, Kenneth Lyen.[10] Her second musical, Lost in Transit, was performed at The Arts House in 2005.[10]

References

External links

• Official site
• Interview

На других языках

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- [en] Stella Kon

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[ru] Кон, Стелла

Кон, Стелла (англ. Stella Kon; р. 15 апреля 1944, Эдинбург) Наст. имя Lim Sing Po — сингапурская писательница, пишущая на английском языке. Лауреат Литературной премии Юго-Восточной Азии (2008).

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