Ahmad bin Haji Muhammad Rashid Talu

Ahmad Rashid Talu was born in 1889 in Penang, into a Minangkabau family from the village of Talu, in Sumatra. He was one of the first Malay-language novelists of the peninsula: from 1927, he published in Penang, where local publishing was then booming, a series of novels devoted to education, progress and the place of women in Malay society. An admirer of Western education, he saw in it a means of advancing the thinking of his people. He died in 1939.

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• NovelIakah Salmah?Ahmad bin Haji Muhammad Rashid Talu · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature