ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

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...

THE PRINCESS OF MOUNT LEDANG  was the first person to say no to a Sultan. This is the exertion of a woman’s right showing that even a woman can choose to disagree. : Let Mount Ledang stand tall, a reminder to all Of a flower that survived and remained free Untouched by the royal fancy Even a woman can choose to disagree Even a king has...