Masuri S. N.

Masuri bin Salikun, known as Masuri S. N., was born on 11 June 1927 in Singapore and grew up in the eastern districts of the island, where he attended the Malay school of Telok Kurau. Trained at the Sultan Idris teachers' college in Perak, he taught in Singapore, ran a school until his retirement in 1981 and sometimes signed Martina. A founding member of the Asas 50 movement, which he chaired from 2001 until his death, he wrote more than a thousand poems, as well as short stories and essays, and received the South East Asia Write Award in 1980. He died on 6 December 2005.

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• PoetryAwan putihMasuri S. N. · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature