![]() After the stint, he worked as a teacher in various schools until 1967. After graduating from the school in 1954, he worked as a teacher in an English school in Kuala Terengganu. ![]() He and one sibling of his were able to attend their studies at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Setar through financial aid provided by the intelligence services as a reward to their father for his services - amidst common fears by most villagers that their children might embrace Christianity if they were educated in such schools at that time. Shahnon's father had been previously working as a staff at the surveyor department, then a postman until the Second World War when the British forces hired him as a clandestine spy. ![]() Shahnon was born on 13 January 1933 as the youngest child to a peasant family in Banggol-Derdap, Sik, Kedah his father Ahmad Abu Bakar hailed from Medan in the Dutch East Indies while Kelsum Mohd Saman was a Pattani native whose father came to settle in Malaya from Kampong Poseng in southern Thailand in the late 19th century. ![]() ![]() He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. Dato' Haji Shahnon bin Ahmad (Janu– December 26, 2017) was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a Member of Parliament. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |