Editing Catherine Lim (section)

{{short description|Singaporean fiction author (born 1942)}}
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| name               = Catherine Lim (林宝音)
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| birth_date         = {{b-da|21 March 1942}}
| birth_place        = [[Penang]], [[British Malaya]]
| occupation         = Writer, teacher
| nationality        = Singaporean
| notable_works      = Little Ironies: Short Stories of Singapore and Or Else, The Lightning God and Other Stories.
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| website            = {{URL|http://catherinelim.sg}}
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'''Catherine Lim Poh Imm''' ({{zh|s=林宝音|p=Lín Bǎoyīn}}, born 21 March 1942) is a Singaporean [[Fiction writing|fiction]] author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of [[traditional Chinese culture]]. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers",<ref>[http://www.theartshouse.com.sg/Programmes/EventPage.aspx?EventID=1724 Literary meal: eat your words with Catherine Lim] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227141832/http://www.theartshouse.com.sg/Programmes/EventPage.aspx?EventID=1724 |date=27 February 2014 }} 3 November 2012 [[Old Parliament House, Singapore]]</ref> Lim has published nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, and numerous political commentaries to date.<ref name="Yap">{{cite news|last=Yap|first=Stephanie|title=Daily despair|location=Singapore|publisher=Straits Times Life|page=23|date=3 August 2008}}</ref> Her social commentary in 1994, titled ''The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide''<ref name="Divide">[http://catherinelim.sg/1994/09/03/the-pap-and-the-people-a-great-affective-divide/ The PAP and the people – A Great Affective Divide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203072236/http://catherinelim.sg/1994/09/03/the-pap-and-the-people-a-great-affective-divide/ |date=3 February 2014 }} 3 September 1994 [[The Straits Times]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tCIBlvJrQCgC&dq=The+PAP+and+the+people+-+A+Great+Affective+Divide&pg=PA95 Colony, Nation, and Globalisation] 2010, [[Hong Kong University Press]]</ref> and published in ''[[The Straits Times]],'' criticised the ruling political party's agendas.