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
editYap 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
editIn 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[1] and a doctorate at St Catharine's College[2] on the subject of prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War.[3] In 2007, she was elected a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.[4]
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.[5][6][7][8]
Selected publications
editReferences
edit- ^ University of Cambridge (21 July 2004). "Acta: Congregation of the Regent House on 17 July 2004". Cambridge University Reporter. 134 (37). Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ University of Cambridge (20 February 2013). "Acta: Congregation of the Regent House on 16 February 2013". Cambridge University Reporter. 143 (21). Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "How Felicia Yap went from Facebook to thriller fiction queen". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ University of Cambridge (8 August 2007). "College Notices: Wolfson College". Cambridge University Reporter. 137 (37). Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Kellaway, Kate (1 January 2017). "Rising stars of 2017: novelist Felicia Yap". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via The Guardian.
- ^ "Curtis Brown". Curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Meet Felicia Yap, author of "Yesterday"—one of 2017's most anticipated thrillers". Newsweek.com. 28 December 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Review: Yesterday thriller turns lens on digitally obsessed society". Scmp.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Felicia Yap – Author of Future Perfect & Yesterday". www.feliciayap.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
- ^ "Felicia Yap - Yesterday - Headline Publishing Group". Headline.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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