Felicia Yap
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Felicia Yap (born November 1980) is a Malaysia-born author. Her debut novel, a thriller titled Yesterday, was the subject of a bidding war by publishers.
Early life
Yap was born in November 1980 and raised in Kuala Lumpur. Her father refilled ATMs for a living and her mother was a clerk in a car repair shop.
Education and career
In 2000 Yap began to study biochemistry at Imperial College London, after which she worked as a researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. She then switched to studying history at the University of Cambridge, completing a master's degree at Sidney Sussex College{{cite journal |author=University of Cambridge |author-link=University of Cambridge |date=21 July 2004 |title=Acta: Congregation of the Regent House on 17 July 2004 |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/reporter/2003-04/weekly/5970/6.html |journal=Cambridge University Reporter |volume=134 |number=37 |access-date=15 March 2019}} and a doctorate at St Catharine's College{{cite journal |author=University of Cambridge |author-link=University of Cambridge |date=20 February 2013 |title=Acta: Congregation of the Regent House on 16 February 2013 |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2012-13/weekly/6298/section8.shtml |journal=Cambridge University Reporter |volume=143 |number=21 |access-date=15 March 2019}} on the subject of prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/how-yesterday-author-felicia-yap-went-from-facebook-to-thriller-fiction-queen-a3607906.html|title=How Felicia Yap went from Facebook to thriller fiction queen|website=Standard.co.uk|accessdate=17 August 2017}} In 2007, she was elected a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.{{cite journal |author=University of Cambridge |author-link=University of Cambridge |date=8 August 2007 |title=College Notices: Wolfson College |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2006-07/weekly/6083/34.html |journal=Cambridge University Reporter |volume=137 |number=37 |access-date=15 March 2019}}
Yap worked as a journalist in Singapore and the United Kingdom and has written for The Economist and The Business Times. Her debut novel was a thriller titled Yesterday, followed by her second novel titled Future Perfect.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/01/rising-stars-2017-novelist-felicia-yap-yesterday|title=Rising stars of 2017: novelist Felicia Yap|first=Kate|last=Kellaway|date=1 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=17 August 2017|via=The Guardian}}{{cite web|url=https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/felicia-yap|title=Curtis Brown|website=Curtisbrown.co.uk|accessdate=17 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/felicia-yap-book-release-2017-yesterday-literature-2017-535256|title=Meet Felicia Yap, author of "Yesterday"—one of 2017's most anticipated thrillers|date=28 December 2016|website=Newsweek.com|accessdate=17 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2099703/book-review-felicia-yaps-thriller-yesterday-turns-lens-digitally|title=Review: Yesterday thriller turns lens on digitally obsessed society|website=Scmp.com|accessdate=17 August 2017}}
Selected publications
- Future Perfect. London: Headline, 2021.{{Cite web|title=Felicia Yap – Author of Future Perfect & Yesterday|url=http://www.feliciayap.com/|access-date=2021-05-21|website=www.feliciayap.com}}
- Yesterday. New York: Mulholland Books, 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.headline.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781472242211|title=Felicia Yap - Yesterday - Headline Publishing Group|website=Headline.co.uk|accessdate=17 August 2017}}
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Category:Writers from Kuala Lumpur
Category:Malaysian non-fiction writers
Category:Alumni of Imperial College London
Category:Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Category:Malaysian journalists
Category:Malaysian women journalists
Category:Malaysian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Malaysian women writers
Category:21st-century journalists
Category:21st-century women journalists
Category:21st-century Malaysian women writers
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