Huzir Sulaiman

The epitome of Humanities scholar, educator, and practitioner, Huzir Sulaiman has worked across all Humanities (except archaeology,probably) in the arts dimension. Huzir's trademark look is his sliver of white hair on his right beard. Currently, he is the Creative Director at Studio Wong Huzir that he co-founded with Claire Wong. (Studio Wong Huzir, n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. <http://studiowonghuzir.com/people>.)

Non-Literary Works

• Part of a four-person team that conceptualised the spaces and created the narratives of the History Galleries;National Museum of Singapore.
• 2009 he worked as the Creative Director of the observation deck on the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa.
• Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre
• Founded Straits Theatre Company (1996)

Plays
15 plays 
Atomic Jaya (1998) 
The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011)

Awards
Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards (The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011))
won the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize

Column
Wide Angle (fortnightly column), The Star from end 2006 to early 2009
The Huffington Post (published article) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huzir-sulaiman
Malaysiakini (feature writing) http://www.malaysiakini.com/browse/a/my/Huzir%20Sulaiman

Books
Eight Plays (Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 2002).  

• Atomic Jaya (first staged in 1998), 
• The Smell of Language (1998), 
• Hip-Hopera (1998),
•  Notes on Life & Love & Painting (1999), 
• Election Day (1999), 
• Those Four Sisters Fernandez (2000), 
• Occupation (a commission of the 2002 Singapore Arts Festival)
•  Whatever That Is (2002).

Educator
teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore.

Play/Musical Directed
City Night Songs, a critically-acclaimed devised musical (March 2012)
 His unpublished plays include Lazy Hazy Crazy(1997), They Will Be Grateful (2003), One Plot (written 2002, as yet unstaged) and Colony of Singapore (written 2005, as yet unstaged).

Writes Non-literary Pieces
film
television
newspapers

Education

International School of Kuala Lumpur (1990 graduate)(valedictorian of his class)

Graduated from Princeton University(with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature) 

He was a 2007 Yale World Fellow, one of 18 mid-career professionals from around the world taking part in Yale University’s highly selective public policy and leadership training programme.

Background

Born in 1973
Huzir Sulaiman's Life and Times

Interviews

Different Sides of the Straits (This interview was conducted by Mohammad A Quayum in November 2006, and originally published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing in the UK in 2007.) 

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Works Cited

http://checkpoint-theatre.org/2013-calendar-events/huzir-collection
http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2005/huzir-sulaiman

Lloyd Fernando Unplugged

Lloyd Fernando

Birthed in Kandy, Sri Lanka (1926) to Ceylon-Sinhalese parents, Lloyd Fernando followed his parents at the tender age of twelve to colonised Malaya or Tanah Melayu. They settled in Singapore in 1938 . This early age migration had a great and deep influence on Lloyd Fernando, both emotionally, psychologically, and mentally. He studied at St. Patrick's until the Japanese occupation in Singapore from 1943 to 1945. Not only was his formal education disrupted, his father as killed during a Japanese bombing raid. After the man of the house's untimely death, young Lloyd took on menial jobs to fend for his mother and younger siblings. Amongst the jobs that honed his skills, and help bring home the bacon were trishaw rider, construction labourer, and apprentice mechanic. He signed up in the Indian National Army, under the Ceylon branch.
Due to the war, he was made a late bloomer for he could only enter University at the age of 29, after passing the Cambridge School Certificate and serving as a schoolteacher for a good few years.  Graduating with double honours in English and Philosophy earned him an assistant lecturer in Universiti Malaya.

 After obtaining his PhD in Literature in English from Leeds University, he served as Head of the English Department at the University of Malaya from 1967 to 1978, where he was made a professor in 1967. He then took an early retirement at 52 to study Law in London. Fernando was admitted as Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1980, at the age of 54.
He suffered a stroke in 1997, paralysed, wheelchair-bound, and passed away on 28 February 2008. He was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in 2005 for his contribution to Universiti Malaya. His legacy remains as one of the seven Anglophone writers in Malaya/Malaysia, a gateway to Commonwealth Literature, and championing Malaysian Literature in English. 


Lloyd Fernando's Works

Green is the Colour (1993

Summary taken from  http://mliegreenisthecolor.blogspot.com/2009/04/summary-of-green-is-color.html
Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour is a very interesting novel. The country is still scarred by violence, vigilante groups roam the countryside, religious extremists set up camp in the hinterland, there are still sporadic outbreaks of fighting in the city, and everyone, all the time, is conscious of being watched. It comes as some surprise to find that the story is actually a contemporary (and very clever) reworking of a an episode from the Misa Melayu, an 18th century classic written by Raja Chulan.
In this climate of unease, Fernando employs a multi-racial cast of characters. At the centre of the novel there's a core of four main characters, good (if idealistic) young people who cross the racial divide to become friends, and even fall in love.
There's Dahlan, a young lawyer and activist who invites trouble by making impassioned speech on the subject of religious intolerance on the steps of a Malacca church; his friend from university days, Yun Ming, a civil servant working for the Ministry of Unity who seeks justice by working from within the government.
The most fully realised character of the novel is Siti Sara, and much of the story is told from her viewpoint. A sociologist and academic, she's newly returned from studies in America where she found life much more straightforward, and trapped in a loveless marriage to Omar, a young man much influenced by the Iranian revolution who seeks purification by joining religious commune. The hungry passion between Yun Ming and Siti - almost bordering on violence at times and breaking both social and religious taboos - is very well depicted. (Dahlan falls in love with Gita, Sara's friend and colleague, and by the end of the novel has made an honest woman of her.)
Like the others, Sara is struggling to make sense of events :
Nobody could get may sixty-nine right, she thought. It was hopeless to pretend you could be objective about it. speaking even to someone close to you, you were careful for fear the person might unwittingly quote you to others. if a third person was present, it was worse, you spoke for the other person's benefit. If he was Malay you spoke one way, Chinese another, Indian another. even if he wasn't listening. in the end the spun tissue, like an unsightly scab, became your vision of what happened; the wound beneath continued to run pus.
Although the novel is narrated from a third person viewpoint, it is curious that just one chapter is narrated by Sara's father, one of the minor characters, an elderly village imam and a man of great compassion and insight. This shift in narration works so well that I'm surprised Fernando did not make wider use of it.
The novel has villain, of course, the unsavoury Pangalima, a senior officer in the Department of Unity and a man of uncertain racial lineage (he looks Malay, has adopted Malay culture, so of course, that's enough to make him kosher!). He has coveted Sara for years, and is determined to win her sexual favours at any cost.
The novel is not without significant weaknesses. It isn't exactly a rollicking read, and seems rather stilted - not least because there are just too many talking heads with much of the action taking place "offstage", including the rape at the end, which is really the climax of the whole novel.
Click on the following link to get a sample of the book:  http://www.epigrambooks.sg/wp-content/uploads/CLASS-Green-Sample.pdf

Scorpion Orchid (1976)

A Sample of Scorpion Orchid 

After giving up on my pursuit of readily-made summaries of Scorpion Orchid by Lloyd Fernando, after a few days search; I have decided to do my own summary of bits and pieces of the story (that can be recalled).
Four male schoolmates of different yet distinguished races, Malay, Eurasian, Indian, and Chinese, live harmoniously.  All four enter University of Singapore and thus the bildungsroman  stage begins. Being in different life journeys has led them to be distant yet they share a common ground- love for the prostitute Sally @ Siti Saleha who loves freely without any discrimination. The boys are representative's of their race yet the sex worker is a symbolism for Singapore. Malay by immemorial but nicknamed Sally to give a Colonial feel.  No matter how distasteful my interpretation of what has become of the once innocent yet kind and loving Saleha, the boys manage to stay united, in one way or another. The story is set in Singapore and probably made as a social guidance for the new Malaya by a Ceylon born writer.

Works on Llyod Fernando
http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/v2n2/article/Pauline.pdfhttp://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-Dec03/5.2_5.pdfhttp://eprints.oum.edu.my/458/


Works Cited;

http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2008%2f3%2f2%2flifebookshelf%2f20500565&sec=lifebookshelf

Sybil Karthigasu's No Dram of Mercy

Sybil Kathigasu is a Japanese Resistance Fighter during 1942's war-torn Malaya, and a forever friend to the Malayan Chinese. Though not having native blood, she loved Malaya as her own. Fondly known as Missy to her patients, Sybil Kathigasu, Bil to her mother and husband, Sybil Medan Daly made naming a child after a country cool before Paris Hilton made it famous. Born in Medan to Eurasian parents, married in Bukit Nenas, Kuala Lumpur, she settled down in Perak and laid to rest at St. Michael's church.
Her love story is a mix of the usual Bollywood and Hollywood story - they met while he, Admond Clement Kathigasu. was studying to become a medical doctor and she a nurse, their one true love came from contrasting race and religion but her love for her country is truly Malayan.
Her competitive edge among her unsung/ non-rectified heroine peers was her love-child communication device, 'Josephine', a hidden and forbidden radio she kept well in her Papan clinic.
Missy had an illegal affair with the local chinese community, she supplied them with medical attention, food, and most importantly information received from Josephine.
Communication with the chinese was fairly a breeze for her as she spoke fluent Cantonese.
Like any other loyal and proud British subject, she fought her enemies and helped the oppressed,so she thought. She was actually assisting Communism in disguise. I wouldn't blame her as she was loyal to Britain yet had the empathy, will, and power to assist her fellow Perak-ians. Plus she could not see pass the notion the Malay's native land would finally be physically free.
She received a George Medal for bravery from the royal Highness himself just days before she succumbed to her injuries, gifted and sustained by the Japanese.
 No Dram of Mercy  was personally penned down by Sybil Karthigasu. Likened as the Florence Nightingale of Malaya, she is survived by her husband and children. Her Papan dispensary is still intact and preserved to honour her legacy and she is immortalised in No Dram of Mercy, a road in Ipoh, and a 10-part miniseries entitled, "Apa Dosaku?" (What is my Sin?)

This French-Irish-Penang Eurasian was survived by two Michaels' and she laid to rest at St. Michael. Her children are as the following;
William Kathigasu ( adopted)
Michael Kathigasu (died in infantry)
Olga Kathigasu
Dawn Karthigasu

 She lived mercifully and will be remembered as a resistance fighter martyr.


Links related to Sybil Karthigasu;
 http://www.lestariheritage.net/perak/webpages/papan01.html
 http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2007%2f3%2f10%2fnation%2f17051500&sec=nation baca balik
http://www.ipohworld.org/2009/04/01/faces-of-courage-the-story-of-sybil-kathigasu-gm/
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/sybil-kathigasu-and-chin-peng-imperialism-and-umnoputra-rama-ramanathan
http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/7532/
 http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2007%2f3%2f10%2fnation%2f17051500&sec=nation

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng (credit to http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/tan-twan-eng)

This Penangite spends his time between South Africa and Malaysia coagulates his inspiration within and without. Born into Chinese descendents in 1972 as a male heir of the Tan clan, he has since made Malaysia proud. Being the first Malaysian to win Man Asian Literary Prize with his book The Gift of Rain (2012), Tan Twan Eng continues to charm the world. 

It is true, the (majority) Malaysian mentality is if a person wins an award, on a global scale, only will the local masses pay attention to one. Like Shila Amzah, Tan Twan Eng is no exception. Giving birth to two novels that are landscaped in Malaysia, this Historical Fiction erudite cites his admiration from an array of accomplished writers, Julian Barnes, Vikram Seth, David Mitchell, Martin Booth, Salman Rushdie, Colm Toibin, Vladimir Nabokov, and Hilary Mantel, and is influenced by Kazuo Ishiguro.

His works are;
1) The Gift of Rain 
2) The Garden of Evening Mists (2012)

The Garden of Evening Mists

The Garden of Evening Mists, published in January 2012 was shortlisted and then won the Man Asian Literary Prizebooks. This summary is taken from http://www.litlovers.com/;


Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the Emperor of Japan. 

Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in Kuala Lumpur, in memory of her sister who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses, but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to her sensei and his art while, outside the garden, the threat of murder and kidnapping from the guerrillas of the jungle hinterland increases with each passing day. 

But the Garden of Evening Mists is also a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? Why is it that Yun Ling's friend and host Magnus Praetorius, seems to almost immune from the depredations of the Communists? What is the legend of "Yamashita's Gold" and does it have any basis in fact? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?

The Gift of Rain

  A Gift of Rain, loglisted for Man Booker Prize 2007

"The Gift of Rain spans decades as it takes readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, and through the mystical temples, bustling cities,and forbidding rain forests of Malaya." In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton - the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families - feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat who rents a nearby island from his father. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. As World War II rages in Europe, the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, and Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei - to whom he owes absolute loyalty - is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and he is forced into collaborating with the Japanese to safeguard his family. He becomes the ultimate outsider, trusted by none and hated by many. Tormented by his part in the events, Philip risks everything by working in secret to save as many people as he can from the brutality he has helped bring upon them.( Cited from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1219949.The_Gift_of_Rain)

Works Cited from

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/books/2013/05/tan-twan-eng-interview-i-have-no-alternative-but-to-write-in-english/
http://www.litlovers.com/
http://tantwaneng.com/

Tash Aw(ed)

Globalism at its finest; Tash Aw or born Aw Ta-Shi is a Chinese descendent hailing from Malaysia, birthed in 1972 at Taipei, raised in Kuala Lumpur, and settled down in London. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels and several short stories. Tash the Dash's beguiling, suspenseful, and indescribable unmatched writings is as prominent and as his right cheeked mole. He is literary influenced by Joseph Conrad, Vladmir Nabokov, Anthony Burgess, William Faulkner, and Gustave Flaubert.
I was bashfully awed to know that Tash Aw has a long-list of jobs he once held, a lawyer for four years among others.
Staying true to his Chinese roots, Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire is plotted around five Chinese-Malaysians, descendants of migrant Chinese from China who are returning back to Motherland China to seek their fortune. Map of the Invisible World is a story about two thrice orphaned Indonesian brothers who re separated and trying to get through life's struggles set in the kaleidoscope of Malaysia and post Independent Indonesia. The Harmony Silk Factory  shot his career as a novelist. The love story is set in Malaysia during World War II, love intertwines between various races for the love of a Chinese girl, Snow. This tale of tragedy will have you weeping and question why war was ever made good.

Tash Aw is currently working on short stories set in Malaysia.

His works are;

Novels;

• Five Star Billionaire ( 2nd July 2013)
• Map of the Invisible (28 December 2010)
• The Harmony Silk Factory (4th July 2005)

Short Stories;

• " To the City", Granta, 100 (Winter, 2007)
• "Sail", A Public Space, Issue 13, (Summer 2011)
• "Tian Huaiyi", McSweeney's 42 (December 2012) 

Essays:

• "Look East, Look To The Future", Granta.com, 25th May 2012
• "My Hero, Rudy Hartono", The Gaurdian, 9 August 2013

The below summaries are credited to Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Tash-Aw/e/B001HPXPBI);

 

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND BOOKPAGE

An expansive, eye-opening novel that captures the vibrancy of China today
 
Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn’t exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family’s real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a crush on Yinghui, a poetry-loving, left-wing activist who has reinvented herself as a successful Shanghai businesswoman. Yinghui is about to make a deal with the shadowy Walter Chao, the five star billionaire of the novel, who with his secrets and his schemes has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel’s characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants.
 
Five Star Billionaire is a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel that offers rare insight into the booming world of Shanghai, a city of elusive identities and ever-changing skylines, of grand ambitions and outsize dreams. Bursting with energy, contradictions, and the promise of possibility, Tash Aw’s remarkable new book is both poignant and comic, exotic and familiar, cutting-edge and classic, suspenseful and yet beautifully unhurried.

Praise for Five Star Billionaire
 
“Estimable . . . artful . . . Mr. Aw is a patient writer, and an elegant one. His supple yet unshowy prose can resemble Kazuo Ishiguro’s. . . . He’s a writer to watch.”—The New York Times

“In Five Star Billionaire, the Taiwanese-born, Malaysian writer Tash Aw chooses a refreshingly novel perspective. . . . Through five distinct Malaysian-Chinese voices, Mr. Aw wonderfully expresses the grit and cosmopolitan glamour of Shanghai today. . . . Mr. Aw has done more than merely satirize a social milieu; he has created a cast of compelling characters, all of whom have come to Shanghai to remake themselves, yet are haunted by their pasts in ways that they barely understand. . . . In Five Star Billionaire, Mr. Aw has achieved something remarkable.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“[Aw’s] ever-spiraling web of connections is as improbable as it is entertaining, but he knits his various threads with an elegance . . . coupled with a photorealistic eye for the minutiae of urban life.”—The Boston Globe

“The ambition of the book perfectly reflects its subject. In one scene, we’re introduced to a ‘folk guitarist whose slangy lyrics spoke of urban migration and loneliness.’ Aw might be describing himself, except that his threnodies are set to sophisticated modern jazz.”—Pico Iyer, Time

“Goes beyond the bounds of the ordinary . . . [Aw] provides a richly drawn landscape of compelling characters, and a deep immersion in their lives. . . . Five Star Billionaire is a fiercely contemporary tale of tradition, modernity and the cost of progress.”—Ellah Allfrey, All Things Considered, NPR

“Aw has woven an impressive and contemporary human tapestry of a country that Western audiences would do well to better understand.”—The Daily Beast

                                          From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's.

    Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; then Adam watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and now Adam is hiding because Karl, the man who raised him—and who is Dutch but long ago turned his back on the country of his ancestors—has been arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past.

    All Adam has to guide him in his quest to find Karl are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colorful, dangerous capital, Jakarta, and to Margaret, an American whose own past is bound up with Karl's. Soon both have embarked on journeys of discovery that seem destined to turn tragic.

    Woven hauntingly into this page-turning story is the voice of Johan, who is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but one that is careening out of control as he struggles to forget his long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother.

    Map of the Invisible World confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young voices on the international literary scene.

                                 

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

Tash Aw can be contacted via;

David Goodwin Associates
55 MonmouthSt, ondon WC2H 9DG
anna@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk 
michelle.kane@harpercollins.co.uk

For enquiries in the USA, please contact

Alla Maslin
Random Hoouse, Spiegal & Grau
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
emaslin@randomhouse.com 

Follow him on Twitter

 @tash_aw 


Works Cited;

http://www.tash-aw.com/
amazon.com
IndiaInk; The world's Largest Democracy. A Conversation with: Novelist Tash Aw by Neha Thirani Bagri

(http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/a-conversation-with-novelist-tash-aw/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0)

BBL 4306 Exercise 1, Malaysian English Writers not in Malachi Edwin Vethamani’s Compilation.

Malaysian English Writers not in Malachi Edwin Vethamani’s Compilation.

a) Biography / Autobiography

Tun Mahathir Muhammad’s A Doctor in the House

B) Poetry

Shivani Sugurunathan "Chiaroscuro"

Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof  (Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003) 

                                           "The Midnight Satay-Vendor"

                                           "Dusts" 

                                           "Words" 

                                            "Primeval Night" 

                                           "Bukit Dumbar Morning" 

                                           "Images" 

                                           "May 16, 1969" 

                                            "Poem- and the day has broken again" 

                                            "National Disaster" 

                                             "Day Dreaming" 

                                             "Portrait" 

                                              "Poem- one again the sun shines"

                                               "Encounter" "Offerings" 

                                              "Poem- a poem that once came"

                                             "Today (at Penang Road)"

                                             "Piano" 

                                            "The Broken Lei"

                                            "Poem- Once again" 

                                            "Poem- now you're gone" 

                                             "Hula Hands" 

                                              "Sometimes" 

                                                "Travellers" 

                                              "Honolulu Airport"

Omar Mohd Noor (Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)                    "I Am Only This"

                                            "Three Layers" 

                                         "Not Even a Word"

                                         "My Clever Pupils" 

                                     "The Male Gossiper"

                                    "I Am Only This"  

                                           "Moon-Hiding Tree" 

                                      "A Quarrel Between Day and Night" "Final"

                                          "Rain, Broken Light and Music" 

                                                   "A Window Curtain" 

                                                 "Malaysian Sun Misbehaves" 

                                                 'Shut'

Salleh Ben Joned (Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)        

                               'Ria'

                                'The Ballad of Mat Solo or Mat Solo's Last Stand' 

                                  'Armies in the Dark'

                               'Five Star Poetry'

                               'Malchin Monologue' 

                                'Oasis' 

                                'Spirit of the Keris' 

Hillary Tham (Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)        

Grass

That you are what they say

Sitting in the Grass

Offerings

For Edda

Fragment

Eclipse

The Death of Fish

Family Reunion

Unrequested Audience

What Men Never Do

About Unsung Love

A Matter of Perspective

Wong Phui Nam(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)       

How the Hills are Distant -i

How the Hills are Distant -ii

How the Hills are Distant -ix

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -iii

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -iv

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -v

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -vi

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -vii

Nocturnes and Bagatelles -viii

For My Old Amah

For A Local Osiris -vi Song

Osiris Transmogrified -ii

Osiris Transmogrified -iii

Rumours of Exits - A Death in the Ward

Rumours of Exits - iv

I Will Have You Back

Rumours of Exits - v Garden

Rumours of Exits -vi As You Gently

Against the Wilderness - Snake in the Peacock Flower Tree

Against the Wilderness - Kill Me! Kill Me!

C) Short Stories

Adib Zaini The Runner (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Preeta Samarasa Rukun Tetangga (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Marc de Faoite Mamak Murder Mystery (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Shaz Johar Asian Angel (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Shih-Li Kow A Gift of Flowers (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Fadzlishah Johanabas Kiss from A Rose (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Dina Zaman After Dark, My Love (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Eeleen Lee The Oracle of Truth (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Kris Williamson Chasing Butterflies in the Night(KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Shivani Sugurunathan The Dualist (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

                                       Wildlife on Coal Island

Khairulnizam Bakeri Vanished (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Megat Ishak Cannibal vs Ah Long (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Dayang Noor The Machete and Me (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Amir Hafizi The Unbeliever (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Brian Gomez Mud (KL Noir: Red, 2013)

Che Husna Azhari  Mariah(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                  Pak De Samad's Cinema(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Karim Raslan          Heroes(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                  The Inheritance(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Kassim Ahmad       A Common Story(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Kris Jitab                 Victor's Last Wish(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

K.S. Maniam          Haunting the Tiger(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                Arriving(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Lee Kok Liang      Return to Malaya(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                Death is a Ceremony(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                Ronggeng-ronggeng(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                Ibrahim Something(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Shirley Lim Geok-Lin Journey (Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                       The Good Old Days(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

Syed Adam Aljafri   The Matsumoto Light(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                  Horse Artillery(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

                                 Ollie's Search for Golden Hope(Spirit of the Keris: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems, 2003)

D) Novel

May-Zhee Lim Sweetheart from Hell

Tan Twan Eng The Gift of Rain (2007)The Garden of Evening Mists (2012)

Ooi Yang-May Mindgame (2000)

Karim Raslan Journeys through Southeast Asia: Ceritalah 2

E) Screenwriter

Yasmin Ahmad        Muallaf (2008)

                                  Talentime (2009)

James Lee              Snipers (2001)

Amir Muhammad    Lips to Lips (2000)

Tan Chor Teck      Spinning Gasing (Top Spinning) (2000)

Chauly, Bernice, and Ho YuHang Semangat Insan (Masters of Tradition) (2000)

D’Cruz, Alan.         Guardians of the Forest (2000)

Andy Darrel Gomez “…” (dot dot dot) (2013)