Abdullah Hussain

Abdullah Hussain was born in 1920 in Yan, in Kedah. A pupil at the Malay school of Sungai Limau and then at St Michael's School in Alor Setar, he entered the press young, was trained as an officer in Singapore, then edited magazines in Malaysia and Indonesia and worked in publishing. A novelist and short-story writer, and a translator of foreign authors, he received the Southeast Asian Write Award in 1981 and in 1996 became the eighth national laureate. He died in 2014.

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