Novels in English
A former government information officer, Chin Kee Onn captured the trauma of the post-war period in these novels published in Britain.
Starting in the 1930s, Malayan, and subsequently Malaysian, authors began to write in the English language, previously solely the domain of expatriate authors. Themes were initially linked to ancestral homelands and matters related to domestic tensions. Truly local themes only appeared after World War II, focusing on the Japanese Occupation, the Emergency and embryonic nationalism. The literary tradition became established in the 1970s and has continued to grow since.
- Information in the full article includes
- From early ventures to post-war melodrama
- Emergence of the Malaysian novel
- Diasporic writers