ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

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...