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Oral literature encompasses a variety of genres of Malay folklore, such as myths, legends, folk tales, romances, epics, poetry, proverbs, origin stories and oral histories. Oral tradition thrived among the Malays, but continues to survive among the indigenous people of Malaysia, including the Orang Asli and numerous ethnic groups in Sarawak and ...
According to the Kamus Dewan, budaya rakyat can be interpreted as stories, customs, clothing, behaviour etc. that are inherited by a society or a nation. [1] Malaysian folklore takes a heavy influence from Indian tradition, with a number of figures, legends, and creatures being adapted from the pre-Islamic traditions of the Malay Archipelago.
Kisah dongeng are a loose collection of bedtime stories, fables and myths that involves human or non-human characters, often with superhuman powers along with talking animals, and an unearthly setting. In this category, the story of Puteri Gunung Ledang, Bawang Putih Bawang Merah and Batu Belah Batu Bertangkup is well known by the Malays. All ...
The Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils. [5] In Maugham's foreword, he writes that the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation."
Ah King is a collection of short stories set in the Federated Malay States and elsewhere in Southeast Asia during the 1920s by W. Somerset Maugham.It was first published by the UK publishing house Heinemann, in September 1933; the first American edition was published on November 8 of the same year by Doubleday Doran, New York.
His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, The Return , was published in 1981 and the second, In a Far Country , in 1993. He won the first prize for The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times –McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from ...
Pages in category "Short stories set in Malaysia" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ah King
His latest novel, A Malaysian Restaurant in London, is more conventional, being a paranormal love story. His collection of tales, Horror Stories, is a significant best-selling book in Malaysia and his latest retrospective collection Scream to the Shadows published by Penguin Random House SEA will expand his readership in Asia and internationally.