Pungguk

Muhammad Yasin bin Ma'amor, who signs Pungguk, was born on 18 September 1910 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. Trained at the Sultan Idris teachers' college in Tanjong Malim, he then taught in Malay schools, first in Kampung Baru, and in 1934 took over the direction of Majalah Guru, the teachers' journal. The author of a novel, short stories, some twenty poems and articles on language, literature and teaching, he is regarded as the pioneer of the modern Malay poem, to the point of being called the father of the sajak.

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• PoetryKeluh KesahPungguk · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature