The Huffington Post about Huzir Sulaiman

One of the most critically acclaimed dramatists in Southeast Asia, and a 2007 Yale World Fellow, Huzir Sulaiman writes for theatre, film, television and newspapers, and is a consultant on public policy issues for the arts and heritage sectors.

Huzir was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was educated at Princeton University. He now lives in Singapore, where he is a co-founder and Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre.

His plays are frequently performed in Malaysia and Singapore and have been presented in Tokyo, Berlin, New York, and London. His work is collected in Eight Plays (Silverfish Books) and his plays - 14 to date - are studied in universities in the region. They range from Atomic Jaya (1998), a classic satire on what would happen if Malaysia decided to construct an atomic bomb, to Cogito (a commission of the 2007 Singapore Arts Festival), a lyrical exploration of grief, memory, and what it means to be human.

Wide Angle, his fortnightly column in Malaysia’s leading English newspaper, The Star, covers diverse topics in culture, politics, and society. He currently teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore, and is working on a novel.

He may be reached at info@huzirsulaiman.com .


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Biography of Huzir Sulaiman

Huzir Sulaiman (born in 1973) is a Malaysian actor, director and writer. One of Malaysia's leading dramatists, acclaimed for his vibrant, inventive use of language and incisive insight into human behaviour in general and the Asian psyche in particular. His plays, often charged with dark humour, political satire, and surrealistic twists, have won numerous awards and international recognition. He currently lives in Singapore.
His father is Haji Sulaiman Abdullah, who was born G. Srinivasan Iyer, a Tamil Brahmin who later converted to Islam. Sulaiman is a veteran lawyer who served as Malaysian Bar Council president. His mother is Hajjah Mehrun Siraj, who has served as a professor, lawyer, consultant for United Nations agencies, NGO activists and a Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.
For a short time in the early part of this decade, he hosted an afternoon talk show on WOW FM, a now-defunct Malaysian radio station.
He is currently married to Claire Wong, a Malaysia-born Singaporean stage actress.
He is best known for his works "Atomic Jaya", "The Smell of Language", "Hip-Hopera" the Musical, "Notes on Life and Love and Painting", "Election Day", "Those Four Sisters Fernandez", "Occupation" and "Whatever That Is" which have been published in his collection of "Eight Plays" by Silverfish Books. He also contributes articles to the The Star.

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Something about Tunku Halim-assigned writer

Tunku Halim is a Malaysian-born writer of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. He is also said to be
the best known national writer for contemporary Malaysian horror in English. He is also called as " Prince of Dark Fantasy" because he specializes in writing horror stories. Many of his horror stories can be found from his collection of short stories titled " Bloodhaze 15 Chilling Tales.Tunku Halim concedes that some of his stories are “rather ghastly”. He prefers the(Edgar Allen) Poe-like phrase‘tales of darkness and imagination’ or the more succinct but less accurate ‘dark fantasy’. Tunku Halim started writing when he was 14. There is a recent post featuring a scanned copy of Tunku Halim's short story. The story, type-written on a piece of yellowing paper covered in stains(one blotch looks suspiciously like blood!), the story is titled"The Things in the Jungle" and features a vampire.


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Lee, Daphne. “ My Star Interview: You Are Got To Start Somewhere.”  1  May. 2007.Web. 24 March.2014. <http://tunkuhalim.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/publicity-in-the-media-my-interview/>.