Usman awang biography graphic organizer

Malaysian poet, playwright, novelist

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name.

Usman awang biography graphic organizer

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 1929 – 29 November 2001) was a Malaysian poet, playwright, novelist and Malaysian National Laureate (1983).

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.

Usman awang biography graphic organizer pdf

After the war, he joined the police force and served in Johore and Malacca between the years of 1946 to 1951. In 1951, 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 1952, its daily counterpart Utusan Melayu began publis