Sajak salleh ben joned biography
Salleh ben joned biography
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Poet, essayist, playwright and actor Salleh Ben Joned passed away this morning, but the year-old’s unrivalled legacy in Malaysian literature lives on in his work, family, friends and fans.
Known as the “bad boy of Malaysian literature”, he is famed as much for his sharp wit and critical views as he is for his controversial antics.
Born in in Malacca, Salleh left Malaysia in under a Colombo Plan Scholarship to study Arts at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Sajak salleh ben joned biography
He later moved to Hobart, Tasmania, after marrying his first wife Ariel Salleh. After more than a decade Down Under, he returned to teach at Universiti Malaya.
At university was where Malachi Edwin Vethamani met Salleh back in when the latter was his English literature lecturer.
Now an English literature professor himself, in part due to Salleh’s influence, Malachi recalled how the poet was the most unconventional and refreshing of lecturers.
“He would come to class usually late but he did arrive.
He was always very