Fatimah Busu

Fatimah Busu was born in January 1943 in Kampung Pasir Pekan, near Kota Bharu, in Kelantan, into a poor family; she published her first short story in 1959. Trained at the Malay teacher training college in Malacca, she taught before entering Universiti Sains Malaysia, in Penang, where she obtained a master's degree and then a doctorate and became a lecturer. In 2004 she refused the Southeast Asian literary prize to protest against the violence done to the Muslims of southern Thailand, and in 2015 she received the title of writer of the State of Kelantan.

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• Short storiesSpilled RiceNasinya TumpahFatimah Busu · 1972Literature