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Shahnon Ahmad

Died in 2017

Shahnon Ahmad was born on 13 January 1933 in Banggol Derdap, near Sik, in Kedah, to a father from Sumatra and a mother from Pattani. A teacher and an army officer in 1955 and 1956, he studied at the Australian National University in Canberra, then at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, where he headed the School of Humanities and became professor emeritus. National Laureate in 1982, he was a member of parliament for the Islamic party for Sik from 1999 to 2004 and published a controversial political satire in 1999. He died in Kajang on 26 December 2017.

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