# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-lim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:33:08.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-lim"
name: "Catherine Lim"
slug: "catherine-lim"
description: "Catherine Lim Poh Imm is a Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the \"doyenne of Singapore writers\", Lim has published nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, and numerous political commentaries to date. Her social commentary in 1994, titled The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide and published in The Straits Times, criticised the ruling political party's agendas."
tagline: "Singaporean writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.279158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Lim"
    title: "Catherine Lim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "كاترين ليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Lim"
    title: "Catherine Lim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Lim"
    title: "Catherine Lim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Lim"
    title: "Catherine Lim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Lim"
    title: "Catherine Lim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump