Usman awang buku

Wan Osman was born into a poor peasant family. He graduated from 6th grade of his local Malay school. During the Japanese occupation , he was kidnapped by Japanese soldiers to Singapore to do forced labour there. After the war, he joined the police force and served in Johore and Malacca between the years of to In , he moved to Singapore, where he initially worked as a proofreader and then as a reporter for the newspaper Melayu Raya.

He later joined the weekly Mingguan Melayu - in , its daily counterpart Utusan Melayu began publishing his first poems and stories on both these newspapers.

Sasterawan negara perempuan

After Malaya's independence in , he lived in Kuala Lumpur and worked in the national language regulatory board, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka until Usman Awang died of a heart attack on 29 November in Kuala Lumpur. He was 72 years old. In the early period he used the pseudonym "Tongkat Warrant" "The Baton". One of the founders of the movement "Asas" which advocated "Literature for society".

His works are translated into 11 languages of the world, including English.

Biodata sasterawan negara

He was the first chairman of the literary organization "Pena" from to In , he together with other compatriots created a protest movement against the infringing of the Malay language's status as the national language of Malaysia known as the Keranda "Coffin ". He headed the Friendship Society "Malaysia-China" from the time of its creation in Creativity of the poet is imbued with humanistic ideas.

The prominent Malaysian critic Syed Husin Ali , one of his closest friends, wrote about him stating:.