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List Of Malaysian Writers
The following is a list of writers living or residing in Malaysia ordered by their first name. This list includes writers of all genres and in any language. This is a subsidiary list to the List of Malaysians. A *Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir (1796–1854) *Abdullah Hussain (1920–2014) *Adibah Amin. Writer, columnist, teacher, and actress. *Amir Muhammad (director), Amir Muhammad (born 1972) *A. Samad Said, A Samad Said (born 1935) B * Bernice Chauly D * Dina Zaman E *Ee Tiang Hong (1933-1990), poet F *Faisal Tehrani *Farish A. Noor (born 1967), political scientist and historian. *Fatimah Busu H *Huzir Sulaiman *Zurinah Hassan G *Chuah Guat Eng (born 1943). Malaysian Peranakan Chinese writer. J *Khasnor Johan, historian K *Khoo Kheng-Hor *Kee Thuan Chye M *Mahathir Mohamad *Munshi Abdullah (1796–1854) N *Kevin Nyiau *Noordin Hassan O * Julya Oui P *Preeta Samarasan R *Rahimidin Zahari * Ramlee Awang Murshid * Rani Manicka * Rehman Rashid *Ruhaini Matdarin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khoo Kheng-Hor
Khoo Kheng-Hor (; born 2 March 1956) is a Malaysian author and speaker on contemporary application of the 500 BC Chinese military treatise, ''The Art of War'', by military strategist Sun Tzu. In the 1990s, Khoo was the first Sun Tzu student in South-east Asia to link and teach the general's principles in relation to business and management. To date, Khoo has written over 26 business and management books, most of which are based on Sun Tzu's ''Art of War'' as he made it his life's mission to "suntzunize" as many people as possible. In 1997, although a Malaysian citizen, he was appointed as honorary Assistant Superintendent of Police by the Singapore Police Force in recognition for his contribution as consultant-trainer to the police force of Singapore. His first novel, ''Taikor'', was nominated by the National Library of Malaysia for the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award. Since 1999, Khoo has gone into retirement and occasionally travels in Malaysia and Singapore. Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahnon Ahmad
Dato' Haji Shahnon bin Ahmad (January 13, 1933 – December 26, 2017) was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a Member of Parliament. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. Brief biography Shahnon was born on 13 January 1933 as the youngest child to a peasant family in Banggol-Derdap, Sik, Kedah; his father Ahmad Abu Bakar hailed from Medan in the Dutch East Indies while Kelsum Mohd Saman was a Pattani native whose father came to settle in Malaya from Kampong Poseng in southern Thailand in the late 19th century. Shahnon's father had been previously working as a staff at the surveyor department, then a postman until the Second World War when the British forces hired him as a clandestine spy. He and one sibling of his were able to attend their studies at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Setar through financial aid provided by the intelligence services as a reward t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruhaini Matdarin
Ruhaini Matdarin (born 16. 3. 1981, Kota Kinabalu) is a Malaysian writer from Sabah. Brief biography She is Kadazan by nationality. The eldest of three children in the family. In 2003, she graduated from the Faculty of Finance Management of the University of Science of Malaysia in Penang. She used to work as an auditor in a number of companies. Since 2016, she has become a freelancer in order to have free time for writing and run her business. Life member of the Writers' Union of Malaysia. Creativity She began writing as a student of Sabah College in 2000. She promptly burst into the world of literature. Debuting in 2007 with the novel “The Self-Right Girl”, she published over 30 books during the next ten years, including novels and collections of short stories, as well as literary processed Sabah fairy tales. At the same time, many of her works were awarded prestigious awards, including the Sabah Literary Award which she got many times. It seems that the virtue of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehman Rashid
Rehman Rashid (24 October 1955 – 3 June 2017) was a prominent Malaysian journalist and writer. Personal life and career Rehman is of mixed ethnicity of Eurasian and Indian Muslim. Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at University College Swansea in Wales. He was well known at University for writing folk songs and performing them at every opportunity. Rehman became a journalist in 1981. Prior to this, he worked with the Fisheries Research Institute in Penang and as a research associate with the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science of Universiti Putra Malaysia. After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the '' New Straits Times'', Malaysia's leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer. From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia Malaysia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rani Manicka
Rani Manicka is a Malaysian-born novelist, who divides her time between Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Background, education Manicka grew up in Terengganu and attended the University of Malaysia, where she received a business degree. ''The Rice Mother'', first novel Infused with her own Sri Lankan Tamil family history, ''The Rice Mother'' is her first novel, and it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2003 for South East Asia and South Pacific region. ''The Rice Mother'' is a "multi-generational story" and focuses on a Sri Lankan family living in Malaysia. Lakshimi is born in Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ..., and 14 years old, is married to Ayah, a supposedly rich 37-year-old widower in Malaysia. On arrival in Malaysia, she finds that Ayah is not ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramlee Awang Murshid
Ramlee Awang Murshid (born November 4, 1967 in Papar, Malaysia) is a Malaysian novelist of Bruneian Malay descent. Life and career He attended the Kapayan Primary School in Kota Kinabalu from 1974 to 1979 for his primary education and later graduated from Sabah College also located in Kota Kinabalu, in 1984, where he furthered his secondary education. He later furthered his tertiary studies at the National University of Malaysia, where he obtained his Certificate of Communication in 2000 as well as his Bachelor of Arts (honours) degree in Communications. He had involved himself in theatre since his teenage years, at times as a director, playwright or actor. He was also a former reporter for Radio Televisyen Malaysia spanning 20 years from 1986 to 2010. His reporting job, which sometimes brought him to travel to various countries, played a significant role in his writing. Some of those works, which are set in faraway countries such as Japan, were inspired by his travels. Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahimidin Zahari
Rahimidin Zahari (March 28, 1968, Bachah, Keranji, Kelantan – May 14, 2015, Kuala Lumpur) was a Malaysian poet. Short biography In 2003, he graduated from the University of Sciences of Malaysia (Penang), department of fine arts. In the years 1988-1989. participated in the program of literary creativity at the same university. Participant of the Second ASEAN Writers' Conference in the Philippines and Istiqlal II Festival in Indonesia, representative of Malaysia at the International Festival of Poetry "Kuala Lumpur 2002", participant of the Poetry Festival "South Korea-ASEAN" (Seoul, December 10–16, 2010). He was also keen of traditional art forms. The last years of his life he was the editor of the quarterly theater magazine "Pentas" (Stage), as well as the treasurer of the organization "National Writer" (Pena). Creativity In addition to poetry, he also wrote plays and novels. One of the plays "Rebab Berbisik" was successfully shown in April. 2011 on the small stage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preeta Samarasan
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, ''Evening Is the Whole Day'', won the Hopwood Novel Award (while she was doing her MFA at the University of Michigan), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007. Life Samarasan was born in Batu Gajah. Her father was a schoolteacher in Ipoh in Malaysia, where she attended the SM (Sekolah Menengah) Convent School. In 1992, she won a United World College scholarship and went to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, United States. After graduating in 1994, she went to Hamilton College, and then joined the Ph.D. program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julya Oui
Julya Oui is a Malaysian author, playwright and screenwriter, best known for her horror short story collections. Biography Originally from Taiping, Perak, in her youth, Oui taught herself poetry and fiction writing, as her family did not have the money to access creative writing courses. After a number of years self-publishing short stories, her first book, ''Bedtime Stories From The Dead Of Night'', was published by MPH Group in 2011. She showcased ''Them Horrors Be Everywhere'', the third book in the Nighmares, Monsters & Horrors Triptych series, at the George Town Literary Festival of 2016. In 2019, one of her short stories was included in ''The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales From Asia'' anthology. In 2021, ''Taiping Tales of Terror'' was published by Penguin Books. As a screenwriter, she contributed to the scripts of several Malaysian films. She is a transgender woman A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noordin Hassan
Noordin Hassan (born January 18, 1929, Penang) is a Malaysian playwright, Malaysian National Laureate. Brief biography He received his secondary education in Malaysia, higher education in England (University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ..., 1962–1966). He also followed the course of drama at Newcastle University (1976). Creativity He wrote and performed on the basis of his plays more than 30 productions, in which social criticism takes imaginative fantastic-allegorical, sometimes absurdist forms. To enhance the attraction, he resorts to the techniques of the traditional Malay theater, boldly introduces verses, music, songs, clownish interludes ("No grass in the wind", 1970, "Do not kill butterflies", 1978; "This night the tortoise cried", 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Nyiau
Kevin Nyiau also known as Nyiau Kean Wei, Yang Jian Wei () is a Malaysian author born in Sungai Petani in 1986. Life Nyiau is a Malaysian Chinese who spent his childhood in Sungai Petani, Kedah state in Northern Malaysia. He received some national fame as a 17 year-old who contacted the Malaysian Ministry of Defence after not being drafted for mandatory military service on a lottery selection system. Unlike others who generally consider it lucky to avoid, Nyiau appealed to the National Service Training Program to enlist him anyway. He and two other teens received attention for actually volunteering to participate. Nyiau later moved to Kuala Lumpur and began a career in the banking industry. Unsatisfied with the direction of his life, he decided to alter his projected path and spent a year abroad in New Zealand and Australia through the working holiday visa program, inspiring his first book ''Hope is at the Turning Point''. Kevin Nyiau later moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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