caning of the American teenager Michael Fay, called The Caning of Michael Fay. In 2014, Baratham was the focus of the Singapore Writers Festival Literary Pioneer Showcase. "A Tribute to Gopal Baratham" comprised a dramatised reading of excerpts from Baratham's short stories by the Big Bad Wolf theatre company, a forum discussing Baratham's literary legacy featuring poet Kirpal Singh, editor Mindy Pang and writer Crispin Rodrigues, and a short film adaptation of Baratham's short story "'Homecoming'" by director Wee Li Lin. In 2015, The Straits Times Akshita Nanda selected A Candle or the Sun as one of 10 classic Singapore novels. She called it "brilliant" and "funny". Awards National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Highly Commended Book Award – Figments of Experience (1982) National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Commended Book Award – People Make You Cry and Other Stories (1990) S.E.A. Write Award (1991) Literary works Short story collections Figments of Experience (1981, Times Books International) People Make You Cry and Other Stories (1988, Times Books International) Love Letter and Other Stories (1988, Times Books International) Memories that Glow in the Dark (1995, PipalTree Pub.) The City of Forgetting: The Collected Stories of Gopal Baratham (2001, Times Books International) Collected Short Stories (2014, Marshall Cavendish) Novels A Candle or The Sun (1991, Serpent's Tail; 1992, Penguin; 2014, Marshall Cavendish) Sayang (1991, Times Books International; 2014, Marshall Cavendish) Moonrise, Sunset (1996, Serpent's Tail; 2014, Marshall Cavendish) Non-Fiction The Caning of Michael Fay (1994, KRP Publications) Secondary Texts Of Memory and Desire: The stories of Gopal Baratham by Ban Kah Choon (2000, Times Books International) Anthologies Gwee Li Sui, ed. Written Country: The History of Singapore through Literature (2016, Landmark Publications) Unfinished Work Fuel in Vacant Lots (1977) Beads in a Sutra External links Biography of Gopal Baratham by the National Library Board Singapore Gopal Baratham: A Retrospective by Teng Qian Xi References 1935 births 2002 deaths Singaporean people of Tamil descent Singaporean people of Indian descent Singaporean neurosurgeons S.E.A. Write Award winners Singaporean writers Barathan, Gopal Barathan, Gopal Barathan, Gopal Tamil physicians 20th-century surgeons