Wijaya Mala

Wijaya Mala, whose real name was Abu Yazid Abidin, was born on 27 October 1923 in Bota Kiri, near Parit, in Perak. After the war he went to Singapore, where he became a journalist and was active, without being one of its leaders, in the Angkatan Sasterawan 50, the writers' movement founded in 1950. An editor and then a researcher at the Dewan Bahasa, the Malaysian language and literature agency, he took a course at the International Students Institute in Tokyo from 1967 to 1968. The author of more than one hundred and twenty short stories and seven novels, he wrote until his death on 8 May 1980.

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• NovelSejuk-sejuk TokyoWijaya Mala · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature