Felix Cheong

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Felix Cheong is a Singaporean author and poet.

Cheong has written two young adult fiction books used as part of a national education campaign – The Call From Crying House ({{ISBN|9789814189057}}) and its sequel, The Woman In The Last Carriage ({{ISBN|9789814189118}}).{{cite web|url=http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100503-213907.html|title=Son hired as consultant|date=4 May 2010|work=AsiaOne|accessdate=24 November 2010|archive-date=7 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507102315/http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100503-213907.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.asiaone.com/Wine%252CDine%2B%2526%2BUnwind/Unwind/Books/Story/A1Story20070625-16247.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720070735/http://www.asiaone.com/Wine%252CDine%2B%2526%2BUnwind/Unwind/Books/Story/A1Story20070625-16247.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 July 2012|title=The woman in the last carriage|last=Yap|first=Stephanie|date=3 June 2007|work=AsiaOne|accessdate=24 November 2010}}

Cheong's first collection of poetry, Temptation and Other Poems ({{ISBN|9789813065178}}) was published in 1998 followed by a second collection in 1999, I Watch the Stars Go Out ({{ISBN|9789810411275}}),{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MwNPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4894,1522000&dq=temptation-and-other-poems&hl=en|title=Following the call of the Muse|last=Tan|first=Gim Ean|date=29 November 2000|work=The New Straits Times|accessdate=24 November 2010}} Broken by the Rain ({{ISBN|9789810480332}}) in 2003,{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/broken-by-the-rain |title=Broken by the Rain: The Scums and God by Felix Cheong |last=Lee |first=Clarissa |date=20 August 2003 |work=PopMatters |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021213637/http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/broken-by-the-rain |archivedate=21 October 2012 |url-status=dead }} and Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems ({{ISBN|9789810834128}}) in 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://www.todayonline.com/blogs/forartssake/we-rat-felix-cheong|title=We RAT on Felix Cheong!|website=TODAYonline|access-date=2016-04-12}}

Cheong won the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and the poetry slam at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival.org.hk/festival-archive/past-festival-participants/ |title=Past Festival Participants |work=Hong Kong International Literary Festival |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210093906/http://www.festival.org.hk/festival-archive/past-festival-participants/ |archivedate=10 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}

His more recent writing such as in the Singapore Siu Dai series has included more social and political commentary.