Ahmad Kotot

Ahmad bin Kotot was born on 10 June 1894 in Kampung Licok, in the district of Kuala Lipis, in Pahang. A pupil at the Malay school of Tanjung Besar from 1909 to 1914, he taught in the schools of his state, headed several of them, and remained a schoolteacher until after the Japanese occupation. A journalist as much as a teacher, he wrote in the Malay magazines of his time under a series of pseudonyms, and contributed to a daily newspaper from 1957 to 1962. A museum in Kuantan devotes a corner to him. He died on 24 January 1993.

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• NovelHikayat Percintaan Kasih KemudaanAhmad Kotot · 1927not translated into EnglishLiterature