K. S. Maniam
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K. S. Maniam is an 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.
K. S. Maniam was born in Bedong
Bedong
Bedong is a small town in Kedah and located 12 km to the north of Sungai Petani, Malaysia. The Permaipura Golf & Country Club is located in Bedong....
, Malaysia, of Indian immigrant parents. His first schooling was conducted in Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
until he pestered his father into sending him to an English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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
University of Malaya
The University of Malaya is located on a campus near the centre of Kuala Lumpur, and is the oldest university in Malaysia. It was founded in 1905 as a public-funded tertiary institution...
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.
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
- "Your memories are our memories": Remembering Culture as Race in Malaysia and K.S. Maniam's Between Lives" by David C.L. Lim
- The Path of the Imagination: A Conversation with KS Maniam by David C.L. Lim
- The Infinite Longing for Home. Desire and the Nation in Selected Writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam by David C.L. Lim