Muslim Burmat

Muslim bin Haji Burut, who signed as Muslim Burmat, studied at the University of Malaya and then in England, and made his career at Brunei's Language and Literature Bureau. A prolific novelist and short story writer, he received in 1986 the S.E.A. Write Award, then in 1999 the Nusantara literary prize and on several occasions the prizes of the Southeast Asian Literary Council, notably for Urih Pesisir and for Ntaidu, a novel of a famine in a peasant village. Honoured in 2002 as an eminent writer of the country, he died in 2021.

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• NovelPuncak PertamaMuslim Burmat · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature