Anitha Devi Pillai
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an excerpt from “Lessons I Learned from my Son”
BIOGRAPHY
Anitha Devi Pillai (PhD) is a Singaporean writer, translator, and poet. She has authored and edited creative and non-creative fiction books as well as translated a historical fiction novel, Sembawang: A Novel (2020) from Tamil into English. She also loves writing poetry and some of her poems have made their way into the classrooms in Singapore, India, Australia, and the Philippines. Much of her work explores themes such as identity, heritage, and culture.
She is best known for her research into the Singapore Malayalee community that was supported by a National Heritage Board (Singapore) grant and resulted in the publication of From Kerala to Singapore: Voices from the Singapore Malayalee Community (2017) For this study, Anitha was awarded the 'Pravasi Express Research Excellence Award' in 2017.
She is the Co-Director of the 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English and editor for the prose (fiction & creative non-fiction) section of the Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) literary journal.
In a parallel life, she is an applied linguist and teacher educator at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where she teaches courses on various forms of writing and trains English language teachers to teach writing. Anitha is a three-time recipient of teaching awards: Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award from NIE, NTU in 2018 and the SUSS Teaching Merit Award in 2014 and 2013 from the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
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