BORNMCMXLVI ** INDUCTED2024 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO It used to just be the way people in Singapore spoke. Then Sylvia Toh Paik Choo came along and put into print the words and phrases...
BORN1961 INDUCTED2023 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME OVIDIA YU Ovidia Yu has been described as Singapore’s first truly feminist writer and unabashed chronicler of all things female. She initially made her...
BORN1951 INDUCTED2023 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME AMANDA HENG Amanda Heng is a pioneering contemporary artist, one of the first in Singapore to explore feminist issues in her work and to use performance art...
BORN1939 INDUCTED2021 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME SANTHA BHASKAR Pioneering dancer and choreographer As a child in India, Santha Bhaskar was much more interested in science and mathematics than in classical...
BORN1950 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME THAM YEW CHIN Award-winning writer Tham Yew Chin is the best-known Singapore writer in China. Going by the pen name of You Jin, the former journalist and...
