Shamsuddin Saleh

Shamsuddin Saleh was born on 31 August 1906 in Kota Betung, in the land of Siak, in Sumatra. A schoolteacher and court officer, watched by the Dutch, he made his way to British Malaya in the twenties and worked for British intelligence, which sent him on missions in Southeast Asia. Arrested in 1941 for his alleged links with Malay nationalist youth, he was held at Changi, then took part in the struggles for independence in Indonesia. Back in Malaysia, he settled in Kuala Pilah, where he died in 1977. He published more than twenty-five novels.

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• NovelHidup yang DerhakaShamsuddin Saleh · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature