Beliau dilahirkan pada 18 April 1924 di Singapura. Anak ke-8 daripada 16 adik-beradik. Bapanya Ismail Shairazi dan ibunya Aida Abdul Majid, keturunan Jawa, Indonesia. Bapanya merupakan guru besar di s…
Born in Taiwan to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England in his teens. He studied law at the University of Cambridge and University of Warwick, then moved to Londo…
Ratih Kumala, lahir di Jakarta, tahun 1980. Buku pertamanya, novel berjudul Tabula Rasa (Grasindo 2004, GPU 2014), memenangkan Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2003. Novel keduanya, Gene…
Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, pr…
Dato' Usman Awang (12 Julai 1929 - 29 November 2001) adalah seorang Sasterawan Negara Malaysia yang dikurniakan gelaran tersebut pada tahun 1983. Terkenal dengan nama penanya Tongkat Warrant, beliau a…
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul…
Yangsze Choo is a fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Due to a childhood spent in various countries, she can eavesdrop (badly) in several languages. After graduating from Harvard, she work…
八木沢 里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied law at the University of London and later worked as lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s most reputable law fi…
