ON MALAYSIAN LITERATURE

Zurinah Hassan is Malaysia literary laureate (SASTERAWAN NEGARA), and the first female writer to be awarded the title. She had also received Southeast Asia Write Award in 2004 and the Sunthorn Phu Poetry Prize in 2013 (an award of recognition for outstanding poets in the ASEAN country).  She reads syair at cultural events and has...

translated by Zurinah Hassan.  translated by Patricia Vazquez Marin Both poems above were originally written in Bahasa Melayu. The first poem is Berdiri di Pengkalan, translated by the poet into Standing On the Jetty. The second poem is Perkahwinan translated into Spanish as Matrimonio by Patricia Vazquez Mar...