Malaysian writers

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.
Poem- "Chiaroscuro"
Short stories- "The Bat Whisperer" and" Catching Iguanas" ,both stories are from "Wildlife on Coal Island".

'Wildlife on Coal Island' is a collection of eleven stories, all set on a fictional island located in present day Malaysia. Characters tell their own stories but occasionally appear in the stories of others.

Coal Island is a place of secrets, gossip and murder. Peopled with characters that simultaneously laugh at life and are broken by it, it is a Petri dish for experiments with the darkness that sometimes enters ordinary days and the surprising clarity that comes after suffering. "The Bat Whisperer" story can be found from this website

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

 


Rani Moorthy is a Malaysian-born playwright, actress, and artistic director of Rasa Productions. 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.

  

Works

Pooja(2002)

Manchester United and the MalayWarrior(2002)

Curry Tales(2004)

Too Close to Home(2006)

Shades of Home(2007)

Malaysian novelist- 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. 

Malaysian screenwriter- Yasmin Ahmad( The Talent Times)

 

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. 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.