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Adibah Amin

Khalidah Adibah binti Amin, known as Adibah Amin, was born on 19 February 1936 in Johor Bahru; her mother was the activist Zainon Sulaiman, known as Ibu Zain. A graduate of the University of Malaya in 1957, she taught at the Malay Girls' College and then at the language institute, and was the first to head the school in Jalan Kolam Ayer. At the New Straits Times from 1971 to 1984, she wrote a widely followed column under the name Sri Delima, wrote more than two hundred texts for radio, translated into English and acted in three films. She received the national translation prize in 2012 and the national journalism title for 2023.

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