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K. S. Maniam

Died in 2020

Subramaniam Krishnan, known as K. S. Maniam, was born in 1942 in Bedong, in Kedah, into a poor Tamil family: his father was a hospital launderer and also worked on a rubber plantation. After a year of Tamil school, he moved to an English-medium school, trained as a teacher in Britain, taught, then studied English at the University of Malaya, where he was a lecturer from 1980 and then associate professor until 1997. A short-story writer, playwright and co-founder of the Five Arts Centre, he received the first Raja Rao Award in 2000 and died in Kuala Lumpur on 19 February 2020.

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