ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

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The Other Love Poem is the poem that I read in Singapore Writers Festival on 10. November 2018. The festival was from 2.11 to 11.11. Most events took place at the Art House Singapore Occupying the almost 200-year-old building that was Singapore's first Parliament House, The Arts House has played an active role in promoting...

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It was an honour and great pleasure to be invited to Singapore Writers Festival. I was happy to read poems to an attentive and appreciative audience. The event took place at the Art House Singapore. Happy to have the opportunity to meet fellow writers from all over the world. What a moment to remember. ...

De un Amor Que Nunca Sucede El error fue que no fuiste articulado y yo no interpreté. El error fue que queríes que yo compartiera un sueño como si organizara un hermoso álbum  con fotografías que nunca he visto.  El error fue quen nos encontramos en un suêno, dulce y feliz pero me siento mucho más feliz de haber despertado...

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KHALID SALLEH  won the Best Actor Award for the Asia Pacific Film Festival.in 1999 for his role in Johgo directed by U Wei Haji Shaari. Khalid was the second actor after our legendary P.Ramlee to achieve such distinction. He passed away in July 2018. Yesterday we held a poetry and book launching event to commemorate him.  Suatu...

Malaysian literature was brought about and developed as an  impact of printing press. Literary works such as novels, short stories and poems were being printed and published in great numbers and as such no longer restricted to the courts/palaces or to the rich . The government contributed in this development by setting up reading centres...

   Frente al Puerto Cómo me molesta cada vez que veo las luces del puerto son las luces de nuestras fronteras que nos recuerdan que nadie puede vivir sin un nombre ni lealtad a un país.  Pero nadie puede escoger su nombre ni el país en el que ha de nacer.  Translated into Spanish byPatricia Vazquez Marin (Frente a...

The whole country is talking about Anwar Ibrahim,  Breaking news: He is contesting a by election in the Port Dickson parliamentary constituency. This by election is to facilitate his taking over premiership from Tun Mahathir.  After all Pakatan Harapan had made it clear that Anwar is the prime minister in waiting.  Anwar is...

 This is a translation of my poem into Spanish. The original tittle is "Semut" . The same poem has been translated into English, French, Russian and Japanese. What inspired me about the ants? 1- They have no voice and no language but they communicate well with one another. This remind us of the wonders of God's creation. 2- Whenever one of...

A JOURNEY  THROUGH PROSE AND POETRY (ZURINAH HASSAN, 2018) was launched at Singapore National Library on July 22nd 2018.  The book is jointly published by International Islamic University dan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. This book is about my involvement in writing. It covers a part of the long journey that I have gone through, from scribbling...

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