Muhammad Haji Salleh

Muhammad Haji Salleh was born on 26 March 1942 in Taiping, in Perak. A pupil at the secondary school in Bukit Mertajam and at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, he studied at the University of Malaya and then took a doctorate at the University of Michigan. He first wrote his poems in English, before switching to Malay around 1974 and devoting himself to classical Malay literature, in which he became a specialist and whose institute he directed. Sixth National Laureate of his country in 1991, he received the Southeast Asian Write Award in 1997.

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• PoetrySajak-sajak Sejarah MelayuMuhammad Haji Salleh · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature