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Malaysian novelist, satirist, and slight story writer, the most portentous contemporary prose writer in honourableness Malay language. Shahnon Ahmad  gained acclaim with his innovative, prosperous use of old and original languages that have combined Asian languages, such as Kedah, Prak, Johore, Negri Sebilan, Minangkabau, better Sanskrit, Javanese, and Arabic.

Pacify won in the highest erudite awards in his country, including break off 1976 the title of Pejuang Sastera (Champion of Literature) and in 1982 the most prestigious federal award, Anugerah Sastera Negara (Writer Laureate Award). Unquestionable also held the honorary label of Dato, roughly the commensurate of a British knighthood.

Shahnon's novels often dealt with arguable issues of the day.

''If politics is foul and peep at foul other things, then Uproarious as a writer will put down to the foulness and elements focus are fouling other things, market my own way.'' (from picture foreword of Shit, 1999)

Datuk Shahnon Ahmad was born inconvenience the remote village of Banggul Derdap, in the state sustenance Kedah, where father had moved steer clear of Medan.

Shahnon's mother's family were originally from Pattani, Southern Siam. He attended an English secondary faculty in Alor Setar from 1947 to 1953 and then taught Candidly in Trengganu and in Kedah. In 1955-56 he served break off the army as an public servant. Between 1960 and 1963, appease taught Malay language and erudition at a Malay school concentrated Kedah.

In 1968 Shahnon went to Australia for university study, graduating with an Asian Studies degree in 1971. Four years later filth gained his M.A. from the Asylum of Science in Penang, situation he taught literature and served as the dean of birth School of Humanities. In position mid-1970s, he joined the Islamic fundamentalist movement Darul Arqan.

Notwithstanding, later he expressed his check with religious leaders who make a quick buck their followers. Shahnon argued ramble Malay writers should develop be over authentic Islamic literature. Only bookish works written by Islamic writers, truly believing and writing fail to distinguish God, he said, could subsist true "Islamic literature." For 11 epoch until 1996, Shahnon also sure the Islamic Center of Asiatic Science University.

After writing uncomplicated very critical satire of rank regime, Shit @ PukiMak @ PM, Shahnon resigned from potentate teaching position at the campus.

By the mid-1960s, Shahnon was considered with Samad Said amidst the leading short-story writers in rulership country – in general authority short story played a work up important role than the story.

His early stories often turned around erotica in one devour or another. A lot capture them were collected in decency anthology Anjing-anjing (1964).

From 1965 Shahnon Ahmad wrote several novels which dealt with the public changes in his country. Nobility novella Terdedah (1965), in which the protagonist is a green and beautiful widow, was reputed by some as pornographic.

Rentong (1965), the title of which refers to "ashes" in Kedah dialect, was about an unfortunate country population. The central characters downright Pak Senik, headman of the village  Banggul Derdap, who patiently tries to persuade the villagers distribute plant two rice crops wonderful year, and the young Semaun, who is passionately connected with illustriousness land that feeds them present-day rejects double cropping.

Often blue blood the gentry titles of his books untidy heap uncommon. Menteri (1967) and Perdana (1969) are political novels, brook when read together they form Perdana Menteri (Prime Minister). The German word "Weltanschauung" in Weltanschauung: Suatu Perjalanan Kreatif (2008), an autobiographical work, means "world view" or "philosophy of life."

Ranjau sepanjang jalan (1966, No Yield but a Thorn), which brough Shahnon international attention, depicted the hardships of a farming family, position struggle of the peasants celebrated their belief in the uncanny.

For years, this novel was skilful textbook for secondary school family. The symbolic Srengegne (1973) won an important literary Prize in bad taste Malaysia. As many of Shahnon's later works, the book had a tangy religious theme. His series be incumbent on Islamic novels, starting from Al-Syiqaq (1985), presented a complex study of worldly and religious interests.

In the short story 'Woman' from The Third Notch, meticulous Other Stories (1980) individual desires clash with cultural conventions. Siti, a young girl, rebels bite the bullet the marriage arrangement her parents have secured for her. Horizontal the same time she fears that the voice of depiction full rights, shouting "I don't want to" in her detail, is imprisoned inside a dwindle body.

"A virgin is on the rocks piece of fertile land, lull to be dominated. That dominion is freedom, but not conclusion by Haji Rahmat. It difficult to understand to be someone else. She didn't know who, but she hoped and believed that type existed. Every story has undiluted hero. Every child has secure father. Every plot of turf has its rightful owner.

One day, probity rightful owner would come. She would wait for that blessed day." The end of nobleness story is open. Shahnon leaves Siki without a promise recompense future brightness.

Shahnon Ahmad's principal controversial novel is the 240-page long Shit (1999), a absent success, which broke tabooed subjects in the spirit of Flying and Rabelais.

Although the baptize is in English the paperback is written in Bahasa Malaya. The surrealist tale is ready to go inside someone's large intestine refuse has lumps of excrement little lead characters. The head resolve the "shit front" is "PM," who is opposed by one heroic lump. It was no stupefaction that this kind of exact from such an eminent novelist as Shahnon Ahmad caused undue debate.

The angry authorities named Shit un-Islamic and the tutelage minister arranged a meeting attack discuss the cancelling of Shahnon's National Literary Award given him in 1982. As a marked Malay cultural figure and inventive writing lecturer he was offender of undermining the prestige faultless his own office.

The story magnetize Shit, a long scatological anecdote desire too old leaders who cry off to step down from robustness, was read in Malaysia likewise an attack on the management and the former Prime Missionary Mahathir bin Mohamed.

The spot on was first printed in opposition-controlled eastern Kelantan state. Shahnon living soul is a member of greatness opposition party PAS and won in Sik in the lawgiving election of 1999, defeating prestige former religions affairs minister Abdul Othman Hamid, but he chose war cry to run in the communal election of 2004. According truth a joke, when asked denote comment on the defeat, fly your own kite Othman could say was "Shit!" "The book is not adored at anybody and it quite good a creative expression," Shahnon has argued.

''I'm not a minister. Many people say it [the book] is dirty, but Beside oneself didn't create the stinking position. I just created the contemporary from reality."

For further reading: Critical Views on Works by means of Shahnon Ahmad, ed. by Mohd. Yusof Hasan (2017); Anggerik cinta Shahnon Ahmad, ed. by Ahmad Kamal Abdullah (2013); Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture take delivery of the New World Order, well-hidden.

by Norital Omar et formal. (2010); Shahnon Ahmad: Islam, Planning, and Gender by Harry Aveling (2000);Antara kampung dan kota: Country Bias in the Novels make famous Shahnon Ahmad by Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir (1998); Shahnon Ahmad and Tok Guru: Essays fasten Malay Literature by H.S. Aveling (1997); Approaching Islam and Asian Society in the Work provide Shahnon Ahmad by Harry Aveling (1996); 'Continuity and Change lead to the Itinerary of the Asian Novelist, Shahnon Ahmad' by Laurent Metzger, in Journal of South Asian Studies, 22, 1 (March 1991); Novels of the Unresolved Years: A Study of Shahnon Ahmad's novels, 1965-1978 by Mohd.

Yusof Hasan (1985); 'On The Ordinal Notch, and Other Stories' make wet P. Nazareth, in World Humanities Today, 56 (1982); 'Introduction make a distinction The Third Notch, And Overturn Stories' by L. Fernando (1981)

Selected works:

• Anjing-anjing, 1964
• Debu merah, 1965
• Terdedah, 1965
• Rentong, 1965
  - Rope of Ash = Rentong (translated and introduced descendant Harry Aveling, 1979)
• Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan, 1966
  - No Collection but a Thorn (translated endure introduced by Adibah Amin, 1972)
  - films: 1983, directed by Jamil Sulong, starring Sarimah, Ahmad Mahmud,  Melissa Saila, Puteri Salbiah; Slip sre, 1994, prod.

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• Protes, 1967
• Menteri, 1967
• Perdana, 1969
• Srengenge, 1973
  - Srengenge: A Unfamiliar from Malaysia (translated from loftiness Malay by Harry Aveling, 1979)
• Sampah, 1974
• Kemelut, 1977
• Selasai sudah, 1977
  - The Position Notch, and Other Stories (translated by Harry Aveling, 1980)
• Seluang menolak Baung, 1978
• Penglibatan dalam puisi, 1978
• Gubahan novel, 1979
• Kesusasteraan dan etika Islam, 1981
• Al-syiqaq, 1985
• Tok Guru, 1988
• Tunggul-tunggul gerigis, 1988
  - Stumps (translated by Adibah Amin, 2010)
• Sastera sebagai seismograf kehidupan, 1991
  - Literature as a Seismograph of Life (translated by Hawa Abdullah, 1994)
• Ummi dan Abang Syeikhul, 1992
• Pongang sastera: gema karya kreatif dan kesannya terhadap khalayak, 1995
• Tivi, 1995
• Nurul, anak papa ku, 1999
• Shit @ PukiMak @ PM, 1999
• Lamunan puitis: sebuah trilogi, 2003
• Tonil purbawara, 2005
• Perjalananku sejauh ini: sebuah autobiografi, 2006
• Setitis embun semarak api, 2006
• Mahabbah, 2007
  - Mahabbah (translated impervious to Normala Othman, 2011)
• Weltanschauung: Suatu Perjalanan Kreatif, 2008