Zurinah Hassan

Zurinah Hassan was born on 13 June 1949 in Bakar Bata, near Alor Setar, in Kedah. After Sultanah Asma secondary school in Alor Setar, she studied at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, in Penang, then worked for fifteen years as an information officer in government service, before taking early retirement to write. She later obtained a master's degree at Universiti Putra and a doctorate at the University of Malaya. Winner of the SEA Write Award in 2004 and the Sunthorn Phu Award in 2013, she became in 2015 the first woman national laureate of her country.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryPujangga Tidak BernamaZurinah Hassan · 1994not translated into EnglishLiterature