ZURINAH HASSAN FIRST FEMALE LITERARY LAUREATE.
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…
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Month: June 2016
SOME NEW VALUES OF CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIAN POETRY
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)…
THE FIVE PHASES OF MY POETRY
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…
WOMEN ISSUES/ FEMINIST VOICE IN MY POETRY
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…
ZURINAH HASSAN: BRIEF BIODATA
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…
MY MOTHER THE LITERARY ICON BY AINUL HUDA MOHAMED SAAID
Author: Ainul Huda Mohamed Saaid / AHS PR MOTHER’S DAY In celebrating Mother’s Day Bernama’s journalist Ainul Huda Mohamed Saaid writes about her mother Datuk Dr Zurinah…
THE DAWN OF MODERN MALAY LITERATURE
MODERN MALAY LITERATURE IN THE EARLY YEARS 1838 : Publication of Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Kelantan. This is taken to be the first Malay travelogue 1849- Abdullah Abdul…
IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN A SHORT STORY
WHEN I WRITE A SHORT STORY excerpt: “Recently Asrul read a short story by a writer he admired, about a good goatherd who died leaving hundreds of goats unattended. The goats…