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BookTalk: Former Aware president and motivational speaker Zaibun Siraj is catching up with classics
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Ms Zaibun Siraj, founding member and past president of Aware Singapore, with her books at her home in July.
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Who: Ms Zaibun Siraj, 78, social activist, founding member and past president of Aware Singapore. She recently released the audiobook version of her autobiography, Unstoppable: The Woman Driven By Passion And Purpose.
“Forty years ago, I purchased a set of 50 beautiful leather-bound books, all classics. The authors include Charles Dickens, John Donne, Henry James, Homer, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Shakespeare, Virgil, Voltaire and W.B. Yeats. At the time, I told myself I would read them in my retirement days.
