K. S. Maniam
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K. S. Maniam (b. 1942) is a Indian Malaysian academic and novelist.
K. S. Maniam was born in Bedong, Malaysia, of Indian immigrant parents. His first schooling was conducted in Tamil until he pestered his father into sending him to an English medium school. He trained at Malayan Teacher's College (UK) in the 1960s, returning to Malaysia to teach and study English at University of Malaya in the 1970s. He was Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of Malaya until 1997 when he took up writing full time. His writing commonly addresses the lives and problems of the post-colonial Indian Diaspora in Malaysia. In 2000 he received the Raja Rao Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature of the South Asian Diaspora.
[edit] Bibliography
Novels
- The Return (London: Skoob, 1981, 1993)
- In a far country (1993)
- Between Lives (2003)
Short stories
- Sensuous Horizons: The Stories and the Plays (1994) excerpt, 'Mala'
- Faced Out (2004)
[edit] External links
- K. S. Maniam 2 essays by the author
- Malaysia as myth in K. S. Maniam's In a Far Country by Peter Wicks (pdf)
- A Portrait of the Imagination as a Malleable Kolam: K. S. Maniam's In A Far Country by Shanthini Pillai
- "Renegotiating Identity and Belief in K.S. Maniam's The Return" by Tang Soo Ping
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