Noordin Hassan

Noordin Hassan was born on 18 January 1929 in Penang. Trained partly in England, he taught drawing and Malay, notably in a girls' school in Alor Setar, where he staged his first play in 1953, then trained teachers in teacher-training colleges. He saw in art a form of worship and of knowledge, and defended, under the name of “theatre of the fitrah”, an Islamic-inspired stage, made of symbols, satire and moral lesson. In 1993 he became the seventh national laureate.

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• TheatreBukan Lalang Ditiup AnginNoordin Hassan · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature