Arena Wati

Arena Wati was born on 30 July 1925 in Kalumpang, in the district of Jeneponto, in southern Celebes. A sailor during the war, he moved around 1954 to journalism and publishing, in Singapore and then in Johor Bahru, before working as an editor in Kuala Lumpur from 1962 to 1974. A novelist and short-story writer with an abundant body of work, attentive to the poor and the dispossessed, he received the Southeast Asian Literary Award in 1985 and became a National Laureate in 1988. He died in Kuala Lumpur on 25 January 2009.

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• NovelRontokArena Wati · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature