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Kala Dewata

Died in 2011

Mustapha Kamil bin Mohd Yassin, known as Kala Dewata, was born on 1 July 1925 in Kajang, in Selangor. Having moved from a Malay school to secondary education in English, and a graduate in arts of the University of Malaya in Singapore, he taught in several schools, including King George V School in Seremban. A scholar at Indiana University, he obtained a master's degree and then a doctorate there, both on theatre, a discipline he brought into the Department of Malay Studies of the University of Malaya. He had been writing since 1953, for the stage as for the screen.

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