Name Usman Awang | Role Poet | |
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Books Scattered Bones, Jiwa Hamba/ Enslaved Souls, Death of a warrior, Jebat | ||
Usman awang melayu
Usman Awang (12 July 1929, Kuala Sedili, Johore – 29 November 2001, Kuala Lumpur) was a Malaysian poet, playwright, novelist and Malaysian National Laureate (1983).
Contents
- Usman awang melayu
- Kemanusiaan sebuah puisi usman awang
- Brief biography
- Creativity
- Social activities
- Awards
- Criticism Opinions
- Legacy
- References
Kemanusiaan sebuah puisi usman awang
Brief biography
The name at birth is Wan Osman Wan Awang. He was born into a poor peasant family. He graduated from the 6th grade of the Malay school. During the Japanese occupation, he was hijacked by the Japanese to Singapore for forced labor. After the war in 1946-1951 he served in the police Johore and Malacca. In 1951, he moved to Singapore, where he initially worked as a proofreader and then as a reporter for the newspaper "Melaya Raya" (Great Malaya). Later he joined the weekly "Mingguan Melayu" (Malay Weekly), in 1952 - the newspaper "Utusan Melayu" (Malayan Envoy), began publishing the first poems and stories on the pages of these newspapers. After the Declaration of Independence in 1957, he lived in Kuala Lumpur and until 1985 worked in the Council on Language and Literature of Malaysia. Usman Awang died of heart attack on 29 November 2001 in Kuala Lumpur. He was buried at Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur.
Creativity
In the early period he used the pseudonym "Tongkat Warrant" ("The Baton"). One of the founders of the movement “Asas-50” which advocated "Literature for society" . The author of several collections of poetry, more than twenty plays, one novel ("Tulang-Tulang Berserakan" - "Scattered bones"), numerous short stories and journalistic articles. His works are translated into 11 languages of the world, including English.
Social activities
He was the first Chairman of the literary organization "Pena" (Pen) (1961-1965). In 1964, together with others he created a protest movement against the infringement of the Malay language status ("Coffin 152") . In 1986, he initiated the creation of the Council for Translation and Creative Works of Malaysia. He headed the Friendship Society "Malaysia-China" from the time of its creation in 1992.
Awards
Criticism. Opinions
Creativity of the poet is imbued with humanistic ideas. The prominent Malaysian critic Syed Husin Ali, one of his closest friends, wrote about him:
"Usman is popularly considered, and most justifiably too, as perhaps the best poet in the Malay language. Most important, he is accepted without question as a people’s poet. Writing since 1955, Usman did not produce a very large corpus of poetry, only about 200 of them. But the man, his personality, his poetry and his ideas have a much deeper and wider influence than that number would suggest. Much of his poems are simple, clear, often romantic, and just beautiful. He is a master at weaving words into striking phrases, sentences and verses that are of exceptional classical beauty and sometimes appear to be nostalgic and even escapist"
. And here's how the Soviet orientalist B.B.Parnickel assessed the creativity of the writer:
"With rich, euphonious, in a way traditional language, he wrote a lot and enthusiastically about his homeland, love, freedom, and the wave of his emotions affects truly magicaly his readers"
Legacy
Several places and honours were named after him, including: