Zurina Hassan ( Malay. Zurinah Hassan ; born June 13, 1949, Alor Setar ) is a Malaysian poetess who writes in Malay. Southeast Asian Literature Prize Laureate (2004), National Writer of Malaysia (2015) [1] . Also known under the pseudonym Haniruz ( Malay. Haniruz ).
| Zurina Hassan | |
|---|---|
| Zurinah hassan | |
 Zurina Hassan | |
| Date of Birth | June 13, 1949 (aged 70) |
| Place of Birth | Alor Setar |
| Citizenship | Malaysia |
| Occupation | poet |
| Years of creativity | since the early 1960s |
| Language of Works | Malay |
| Debut | The poem "Decision" in the newspaper "Utusan Zaman" February 15, 1967 |
Content
Short Biography
She was born in Alor-Star in 1949 and has been living in Selangor since 1974. She graduated in 1974 from the University of Science of Malaysia. In 2001, she completed her master's degree at Putra University of Malaysia, and in 2008 she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Malay Studies at the University of Malaya .
Creativity
She began to write poetry at the age of 12. Her first poems were published in 1967 in the newspapers Warta Negara and Utusan Zaman. In order to devote more time to writing, in 1997, she left her post as a responsible employee of the Department of Information Service of Malaysia, where she worked since 1982. She released five collections (the first "Quiet Street" in 1974). It is considered one of the most lyrical poets of Malaysia [2] .
She also published an anthology of the short story “Continuing the Way” (1998), one story and a biography of the writer Usman Avant “National writer Usman Avant ” (1986) [3] .
Other activities
Zurina Hassan is not only a poet, but also a performer of various genres of traditional poetry ( shair , gurindam , nazam), with whom she speaks at official ceremonies, as well as at various cultural and literary events. She is often invited by a jury to read and write poetry contests, especially in Selangor schools.
Member of the committee of the writer organization Gapena (1986-1999), member of the Writers' Union of Selangor (since 2005).
Criticism. Art Evaluation
Usman Avang wrote:
| “Zurina Hassan made a significant contribution to the development of Malay poetry. She brought the depth of images to the Malay language, breathed life into her lines. Her tongue captures, it is poetic and harmonious ” [4] . |
The Malaysian poet Baha Zain describes the work of Zurina Hassan in this way:
| “The questions that the poetess raises are closely related to her feelings as a woman with a tender soul. But she is by no means simple. She is a thinker and an attentive observer of her own life and the life of her family, the relationship between a woman and a man, the life of society as a whole. Everything that she sees and experiences, what she thinks about, she philosophically passes through her emotions and feelings. She is not in a hurry to pronounce negative phenomena, although she does not accept them, but is trying to sort them out and find a reason for them. She puts her “no” in the soft clothes of a woman’s heart ” [5] . |
Family
In 1978, she married Mohamed Saeed bin Abdul Manap. Has 5 children (City of Rayhan, Ainul Huda, Mohamed Taufik, Mohamed Faiz, Aina Masturp)
Rewards
- First Prize in a Story Contest with Elements of Islam by the Department of the Prime Minister (1984)
- Main Literary Award of Malaysia (1984/1985)
- The main literary prize of Malaysia (1998/1999, 2002/2003)
- Southeast Asian Literature Prize (2004).
- National Library of Malaysia Award
- National Writer of Malaysia (2015)
Translations into Russian
- "Life from the train window"; “Matrimony. The feminine approach. " Translation of Marina Eliseeva, Victor Pogadayev , Maria Boldyreva. - on Sat Creek. Traditional and modern Malay poetry. Compilation and foreword. B. Parnikel. M .: Red Mountain, 1996, p. 102-103.
- Malacca “In search of space”; Kuala Lumpur "Port lights." Translation by Andrey Orlov. - Literary Internet magazine "Russian binding", March 30, 2004 [6]
- “To my husband”; "When words are like sin." - on Sat To conquer the sky. Poems of poets of Malaysia and Indonesia in the translations of Victor Pogadayev . M .: Klyuch-S, 2009, p. 83-84.
- “To my husband”; "When words are like sin." Translation by Victor Pogadayev . - Women's poetry. Site of Natalia Laidinen [7]
- Looking at the harbor (Menghadap Pelabuhan) . Bilingual anthology. Translation from Malay into Russian by Victor Pogadaev . Kuala Lumpur: ITBM, 2013.
Notes
- ↑ Siti Haliza Yusop. Zurinah Hassan dipilih Sasterawan Negara ke-13. "Berita Harian", 10/14/2015
- ↑ Pogadayev, V. The Malay World (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore). Linguistic and Regional Dictionary. M.: "Eastern book", 2012, p. 736
- ↑ Zurinah Hassan. Sasterawan Negara Usman Awang (National writer Usman Avang). Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2006. ISBN 9789836291646
- ↑ "Star", Kuala Lumpur, 1988
- ↑ Zurinah Hassan. Facing the Harbor. Kuala Lumpur: ITNM, 2010
- ↑ Andrei Orlov . Date of treatment March 3, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Website of Natalia Laidinen . Date of treatment March 7, 2013.