Tunku Halim

 Tunku Halim

Tunku Halim bin Tunku Tan Sri Abdullah was born in 1964 in Petaling Jaya. He was the youngest son of 

Tunku Abdullah of the Negri Sembilan royal family. He studied at St. John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur and Cheltenham.  He was graduated from the University of Sussex with Bachelor of Arts Degree. Later he  obtained a master in Science Degree in Shipping, Trade and Finance  from the City University of England. Tunku Halim is a  Malaysia novelist,non fiction writer, academic and lawyer.

Tunku Halim worked with Shearn Delamore & Co, one of the most prestigious legal firm in Malaysia, before becoming an IT Legal Counsel with the Oracle Corp in Sydney in 1993.He currently lives with his wife and two children in Tasmania, Australia. He started writing full -time since the late 1990s and
 decided to settle in Tasmania in 2001, together with his family, because of the vibrant writing culture there.

Tunku Halim started writing horror stories when he was 14 and in an interview with The Star newspaper on 29 April 2007, he said that he is willing to help other authors in whatever way he can and has set up Write lah!, a blog expressly to share writing and publishing tips with younger, less experienced Malaysian writers.

Tunku Halim can be reached at tunkuhalim@gmail.com and his blog address is http://tunkuhalim.wordpress.com.

He wrote in his blog "Write Lah"  that he delves and discusses writing, publishing, life,music and all kinds of bits  and pieces and some nonsense too.
In his blog, we can find out more about his various publications such as short stories collection, novels, trilogy of collected short stories, non-fiction volumes and collaboration.

Short stories collection
44 Cemetary Road (2007)
Gravedigger's Kiss(2007)

Novels
Dark Demon Rising (1997)
Vermillion Eye(2000)

Trilogy of collected short stories
The Rape of Martha Teoh(1997)
Tunku Halim Bloodhaze 15 Chilling Tales (2003)
The Woman Who Grew Horns& Other Works(2001)

Non-Fiction volumes
A Children's History of Malaysia(2003)
Tunku Abdullah A Passion For Life(1998)

Collaboration
the new golf paradigm(2001) with Kris Barkway

Tunku Halim's earliest publications are   Condominium:Purchase Investment & Habitat (1996)
and Everything the Condominium Developer Should Have Told You But Didn't (1992). Both books delved into the pitfalls for consumers in buying apartments in Malaysia.

Tunku Halim latest non-fiction book is History of Malaysia – A Children's Encyclopedia (2009).

It took him 5 years to write it. It was practically a one-person effort which included all research,  writing, photography, graphic design, page layout and most illustrations.

This encyclopedia was a follow up to the author's previous publication, A Children's History of Malaysia (2003).The idea was to make history simple for children, to tell it as a story without the dates.

He has also written a biography of his late father, Tunku Abdullah – A Passion for Life (1998)

The author's father was a politician and businessman. He was taken from Malaysia to Japan for "education" as a teenager during the Second World War. Later in life, he became known as a "playboy" and was married six times.

The author also co-authored The New Golf Paradigm with Kris Barkway (2001). It taught readers how to play golf by using more of the mind and also passed on its philosophy to life.

For twin -volume retrospective of Tunku Halim's short stories,44 Cemetary Road(2007) and Gravedigger's Kiss(2007),both volumes included several new stories.One entitled " Hawker Man" found its way into the anthology Dark City 2.

A 20,000 word story from The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works was republished as a novella.