Brief biography of each Malaysian writers

Brief biography of Shivani Sivagurunathan

Shivani Sivagurunathan is a Malaysian fiction writer and poet. Born in Kuala Lumpur and raised in Port Dickson, she spent eight years in the UK where she studied comparative literature. Previously she was lecturing in UPM but she is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Arts in University Nottingham. She wrote poem titled"Chiaroscuro" and a collection of short stories titled" Wildlife on Coal Island". 'Chiaroscuro' was published in 2010 whereas 'Wildlife on Coal Island" waspublished in 2011.  Her thesis for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy was " Coolie Cartography: Crossing Frontiers Through Coolitude". This thesis was submitted to the Centre for Translations and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick in 2007.

 

Brief biography of Rani Moorthy

Rani Moorthy is a Malaysian-born playwright, actress, and artistic director of Rasa Productions. Following the race riots of 1969 her family tried to emigrate to Singapore, but were unsuccessful for a time. When they eventually made it, Moorthy began her acting career, appearing in theatre and hosting The Ra Ra Show, a television comedy. In 1996, she emigrated to the United Kingdom.[1] Rani was educated at the 'National University of Singapore.

Rani herself grew up in a Malaysian/Tamil culture, that adored a light skinned completion. From a very young age Rani began to learn about the importance of living in a culture that carried a number of stereotypes like caste and class differences. Her works are Pooja( 2002), Manchester United and the Malay Warrior(2002), Curry Tales(2004), Too Close to Home(2006) and Shades of Brown(2007). Her  programmes on TV are

Episode "Martial Arts" (aired 6 March 2002 on BBC One) and Citizen Khan ( Broadcast 27 August 2012 on BBC One). Whose Sari Now (2007) was broadcast between 1 and 5 October 2007 as part of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Drama strand.

Brief biography of Rani Manicka

Rani Manicka is an International Best selling novelist, born and educated in Malaysia;[ She grew up in Terengganu and attended the University of Malaysia, where she received a business degree.[2]She currently divides her time between Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Infused with her own Sri Lankan Tamil family history, The Rice Mother is her first novel, and it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2003 for South East Asia and South Pacific region. Her second novel, Touching Earth, was published in 2005 followed by The Japanese Lover released in 2009.Her latest novel "Black Jack" was published in 2013.

Brief biography of Yasmin Ahmad

Yasmin Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. She was a screenwriter for “The Talent Times”. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, Yasmin was born in Kampung Bukit Treh in Muar, Johor on 7 Jan 1958. A graduate in arts majoring in politics and psychology from Newcastle University in England, Yasmin began her career in advertising as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather. She passed away on 25 July in 2009 because of stroke and bleeding in the brain.

Brief biography of Margaret Lim Hui Lian

Sarawak-born Margaret Lim Hui Lian, who has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia and a B.Ed. from Queen's, Kingston, Ontario, is a children's book writer from Malaysia. She is the author of the PAYAH Rain Forest adventure series. "Nonah or the Ghost of Gunung Mulu", her most recent, has been selected by the International Board on Books for Young People(IBBY) for their 2010 Honour List in a ceremony held in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Lim's essay "Portrait of a Children's Book Author as a Young Reader" was published in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Her piece was the inspiration for the editorial for that issue. Her story titled "Dorothy's Song" can be found from 

http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/765/27

Margaret Lim taught 10th and 11th graders English Literature in Sarawak, Malaysia, before she moved with her husband to Germany.

Margaret Lim established Fairy Bird Children's Books in May 2005 in her home town Kuching, Malaysia

Margaret Lim was included in the Sarawak Women's Museum, Kuching, Malaysia, on August 6, 2007.

She was also nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards (ALMA) 2008.