ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

A Korean Student, Kim Chae Hoon is taking  Law in Hankuk University , Seoul Korea. He took Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Melayu as his subsidiary. The video is a record of him presenting a paper on me. ...

Beside composing poems, I am also translating poetry from Malay to English and vice versa. More often I translated my work but there are also a few of others occasionally. The poem below is one of them. It is a hard work but it pays off especially when my own translation into English could in turn attract other translaters who bring them to other...

PRESENTED TO MR TOYOTA AND PRESIDENT OF NAGOYA UNIVERSITY. My work/book Facing  Menghadap ke Pelabuhan/Facing The Harbour with Japanese translation has been presented to MR. TOYOTA of THE TOYOTA MOTORS and Prof. Dr. Matsuo Seiichi Prresident of Nagoya University. The books were presented by the translater Puan JAMILA MOHAMED (the beautiful...

HELLO THERE, I HAVE BEEN AWAY FROM THE BLOG FOR SO LONG. Now I hope to make a come back. How I wish I can keep up with my promise to write regularly here.  Last night I attended the University Sains Malaysia Alumni Night. I attended the dinner because I was awarded the Tokoh Alumni for being Malaysia First Female national laureate. I have no...

EN REGARDANT LE PORT Auteur : Zurinah Hassan TRADUCTION : JEAN SÉVERY L’HARMATTAN, 2015 ISBN : 9782343037042 Les questions posées par la poétesse sont celles qui sont proches de son âme. Les émotions sont celles d’une femme douce, mais pas naïve. Femme de réflexion et excellente observatrice, elle distille et exprime ce qu’elle voit,...

BIODATA Zurinah Hassan is National Literary Laureate of Malaysia. She is the 13th writer and the first female writer to be conferred the tittle of Sasterawan Negara  at a ceremony held on 26th of April 2016. The award is the highest award given to a writer in Malaysia. Prior to this Zurinah Hassan had received Southeast Asian Writers Award...

EXCERPT FROM MUHAMMAD HAJI SALLEH,  AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIAN LITERATURE, 1988, KUALA LUMPUR, DEWAN BAHASA DAN PUSTAKA page 362-363.  Muhammad Haji Salleh is National Laureate (Sasterawan Negara) of Malaysia, an Emeritus Professor , a well known poet, critic and translator. A further illustration of this individualism...

Interviewers, including students and reporters often asked these questions: ·         Why do you write poetry more than other genre?    ·         What do you write about, or what are the themes of your writing. My answer to the first question is, I began...