Yura Halim

Pengiran Muhammad Yusuf, who signed as Yura Halim, was born on 2 May 1923 at Kampong Kandang, in the Tutong district, Brunei. A senior civil servant, he was state secretary, then Menteri Besar, head of the sultanate's government, from the end of the 1960s to the early 1970s, and later high commissioner in Malaysia and ambassador to Japan. He wrote the words of the national anthem and published in 1965 Sekayu Tiga Bangsi, the first anthology of Bruneian poetry. He died in 2016 at his home in Kampong Sengkarai.

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• NovelMahkota BerdarahYura Halim · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature