Felicia Yap

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

Yap 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

In 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
  • Future Perfect. London: Headline, 2021.[9]
  • Yesterday. New York: Mulholland Books, 2017.[10]

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "How Felicia Yap went from Facebook to thriller fiction queen". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  4. University of Cambridge (8 August 2007). "College Notices: Wolfson College". Cambridge University Reporter. 137 (37). Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. Kellaway, Kate (1 January 2017). "Rising stars of 2017: novelist Felicia Yap". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via The Guardian.
  6. "Curtis Brown". Curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  7. "Meet Felicia Yap, author of "Yesterday"—one of 2017's most anticipated thrillers". Newsweek.com. 28 December 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. "Review: Yesterday thriller turns lens on digitally obsessed society". Scmp.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  9. "Felicia Yap – Author of Future Perfect & Yesterday". www.feliciayap.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  10. "Felicia Yap - Yesterday - Headline Publishing Group". Headline.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.


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