Bonny Hicks

Bonny Susan Hicks was a Singapore Eurasian model and writer. After garnering fame as a model, she gained recognition for her contributions to Singaporean postcolonial literature and the anthropic philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, Are You A Model, is recognised as a significant milestone in the literary and cultural history of Singapore. Hicks later published a second book, Discuss Disgust, and many shorter pieces in press outlets, including a shortlived opinion column in a major Singaporean daily that was pulled due to public dissent from Singaporean traditionalists.

Hicks was born in 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to a British father, Ron Hicks, and a Cantonesespeaking SingaporeanChinese mother, Betty Soh. Her parents separated soon after her birth and Soh relocated to Singapore in 1969 with her infant daughter. There, Hicks formative social environment was multiethnic, multilingual, and included Malays, Indians, and Chinese of various dialect groups. Although she was multiracial, she identified as Chinese during her early childhood, speaking Cantonese and watching Chineselanguage television at home.

Source: Wikipedia