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Usman Awang
Malaysian poet, playwright, novelist
In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Awang is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Usman.
Wan Osman Wan Awang, also known by his pen name Usman Awang (Jawi: عثمان اواڠ&#;, 12 July – 29 November ) was a Malaysian poet, playwright, novelist and Malaysian National Laureate ().
Usman awang biography of william
Brief biography
Wan Osman was born into a poor peasant family. He graduated from 6th grade of his local Malay school. During the Japanese occupation, he was kidnapped by Japanese soldiers to Singapore to do forced labour there.
After the war, he joined the police force and served in Johore and Malacca between the years of to In , he moved to Singapore, where he initially worked as a proofreader and then as a reporter for the newspaper Melayu Raya.
He later joined the weekly Mingguan Melayu - in , its daily counterpart Utusan Melayu began publishing his first poems and stories on