Julya Oui
Julya Oui is a Malaysian author, playwright and screenwriter, best known for her horror short story collections.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Originally from Taiping, Perak, in her youth, Oui taught herself poetry and fiction writing, as her family did not have the money to access creative writing courses. After a number of years self-publishing short stories, her first book, Bedtime Stories From The Dead Of Night, was published by MPH Group in 2011.[4]
She showcased Them Horrors Be Everywhere, the third book in the Nighmares, Monsters & Horrors Triptych series, at the George Town Literary Festival of 2016.[5]
In 2019, one of her short stories was included in The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales From Asia anthology.[6] In 2021, Taiping Tales of Terror was published by Penguin Books.[1]
As a screenwriter, she contributed to the scripts of several Malaysian films.[7]
She is a transgender woman, and has spoken about experiencing discrimination in Malaysia for her gender identity.[7] She is a vegetarian.[8]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Bedtime Stories from the Dead of Night (2011)
- Taiping Tales of Terror (2021)
Nighmares, Monsters & Horrors Triptych
[edit | edit source]- Here Be Nightmares (2014)
- There Be Monsters (2015)
- Them Horrors Be Everywhere (2016)
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- Living people
- Malaysian screenwriters
- Malaysian women screenwriters
- Malaysian transgender people
- Transgender women writers
- Transgender screenwriters
- 21st-century Malaysian writers
- People from Taiping, Perak
- Malaysian people of Chinese descent
- Women horror writers
- Malaysian horror fiction
- 21st-century Malaysian LGBTQ people