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1 Literature of Malaysia

2 Achievements Active writers; known internationally; won international literary awards Shirley Lim Commonwealth Writers Prize (1980), American Book Award (1990, 1997) K.S. Maniam Raja Rao Award (2000) Wong Phui Nam & Ee Thiang Hong Two of the best poets in the English language in ASEAN countries

3 Longlisted for 2005 Man Booker Prize
Tash Aw Longlisted for 2005 Man Booker Prize Longlisted for 2007 International Impac Dublin Award and the Guardian First Book Prize Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award (2005) Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel (2005) Longlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize *The Harmony Silk Factory translated into 20 languages Rani Manicka Commonwealth Writers Prize (2003)

4 Longlisted for 2007 Man Booker Prize
Tan Twang Eng Longlisted for 2007 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize Man Asia Booker Prize (2012) W alter Scott Price for Historical Fiction (2012) *The Gift of Rain has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech, Serbian and French.

5 2. A revival of the English drama/theatre since the ‘90s
The Actor’s Studio (1989) The Instant Café Theatre Company (1989) KLPAC (2005) PJ Live Arts (2009) Damansara PAC (recently)

6 Challenges Before mid 1980s – English language & culture treated with contempt and skepticism English writing tradition – complicated by the absence of tradition and the multicultural makeup – “no common source of collective imagery, symbols and myths” (Maniam 2001) “Closed” political environment -lack of writerly freedom

7 Tradition-bound yet modernizing
Declining interest in literature - commercialism, materialism, technology Dearth of readership Dearth of criticism

8 Prospects & Future Full of promise: Change in the status of English
Nationalism replaced by global, international and neo-universal world culture

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