Skip to main content

Publications

Novels

  • Dunia Hanyalah Pentas, Utusan/UTM Press, 2017
  • Yang Diselindung Samudera, Utusan/UTM Press, 2017 (in collaboration with 2 other authors, Nor Azida Ishak and Fadli al-Akiti)

Short Stories

  • “The Novelization of Welcome Back Mr. McDonald”, Nang 3: Fiction, 2017
  • “Heat”, Eksentrika.com, 2017
  • “Kopi Kluang”, Sama-Sama: Iskarnival 2016, 2016
  • “The Ghost in the Garden”, Everything About Us: Readings from Readings 3, Word Works, 2016
  • “And the Heavens Your Canopy”, Trash, Fixi Novo, 2016
  • “Berus Melakar Awan”, Imagikata, Penerbit X, 2016
  • “Mastura's Air Lengkong Adventure”, Hungry in Ipoh, Fixi Novo, 2015
  • “The Ghost in the Garden”, Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now Volume 2, Griffith University Australia, 2015
  • “What the Andromaid Reads at Night”, Cyberpunk: Malaysia, Fixi Novo, 2015
  • “The Dangers of Growing Air-cooled Volkswagens in Your Backyard”, self-published e-book, 2015
  • “Pak Sudin's Bicycle”, Readings from Readings 2, Word Works, 2012
  • “Zombies Ate My Muslim”, self-published e-book, 2011
  • “The Secret Operation in the Matriarch's Kitchen”, Write Out Loud, Oak Publication, 2007

Non-fiction

  • “Pengkritik Bukan Muslim Mahir Membaca Teks Melayu Islam: Apa Salahnya?”, Dewan Sastera, May 2017
  • “From Under the Shade of a Durian Tree”, Travelscapes: Alternative Journeys, Suarasuara, 2013

Book Reviews

  • “Blood, Sweat, And Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier”, The Star (Malaysia), 23 January 2018
  • “Fiksi Buat Marquez oleh Ruhaini Matdarin”, Tunas Cipta, July 2017
  • “Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami”, The Star (Malaysia), 16 August 2015
  • “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami”, The Star (Malaysia), 28 August 2009
  • “Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup”, The Star (Malaysia), 28 December 2008
  • “The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb”, The Star (Malaysia), 28 December 2008
  • “Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara”, The Star (Malaysia), 30 March 2008
  • “Duma Key by Stephen King”, The Star (Malaysia), 23 March 2008
  • “Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker”, The Star (Malaysia), 30 December 2007
  • “LUST, CAUTION: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film”, The Star (Malaysia), 30 September 2007
  • “After Dark by Haruki Murakami”, The Star (Malaysia), 10 August 2007
  • “The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield”, The Star (Malaysia), 4 December 2006
  • “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami”, The Star (Malaysia), 8 September 2006

Editor

  • Little Basket 2018: New Malaysian Writing, FIXI Novo, 2018
  • Little Basket 2017: New Malaysian Writing, FIXI Novo, 2017
  • Little Basket 2016: New Malaysian Writing, FIXI Novo, 2016
  • Pena Saifai, penasaifai.com, 2016 - present


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I'm going to Clarion West!

So yeah! I'm going to Clarion West this year! If you didn't know, Clarion West is a really awesome science fiction and fantasy writing workshop that runs for six weeks in summer every year at Seattle and is usually taught by a faculty of award-winning authors and editors. Many students who attend this workshop also go on to have illustrious writing careers of their own too. I've been meaning to attend this workshop (or its sister workshop, Clarion UCSD, which is the original Clarion workshop but runs in San Diego around the same time) for years now but never had the courage to apply. Many reasons as to why: didn't think I'd have money for the most part, didn't think I was good enough, didn't think I could leave work long enough, didn't think I could leave family behind, etc. But something sparked inside of me late last year. I felt I should at least give it a go this time round. So I did. They requested a sample of my best work and an applicatio...
Post a Comment
Read more

Dedicated by Burgess.

I've been wanting to blog this for ages, but I've never managed to make the scanner work properly... that is till now. Some years back, my dad was browsing the shelves of NovelHut, Ipoh's best second-hand bookstore, and found a copy of Anthony Burgess's Time for a Tiger . Price? RM2. (That would be approximately USD$0.60 or GBP£0.30). Did I mention it was a hardcover first edition? Here's the dedication page, with the famous dedication written in Jawi. Jawi is the Malay language written in Arab script, a norm early last century. Nowadays, Malay is written in Romanised form. The dedication says: " Kepada sahabat-sahabat saya di Tanah Melayu " which translates into "To my friends in Malaya." On the opposite page, proof this is the first edition. A first edition is probably valuable by itself. But this copy has something extra that makes it even more special--a personal dedication by Burgess himself to a friend: If you can't make the writing out...
15 comments
Read more

REVIEW: Confessions of an Old Boy by Kam Raslan

Kam Raslan's right. In the preface for his new book, Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures he writes that we've known Dato' Hamid all our lives. Seeing as my own dad is an old boy of MCKK, the people I get to meet when he drags me to an Old Boy function and the people he tells me of, reflect the characters found in Kam's book. It really does feel like I've known Dato' Hamid all my life. Dato' Hamid is a civil servant of the Tunku Abdul Rahman generation. He is the sort of person you rarely see nowadays, a fine example of the anachronistic Malay. This generation, groomed in the ways of the colonial British would be out of place not just in 21st century Malaysia, but in Britain too. And yet, Dato' Hamid, in all his snobbishness and patronising ways, is essentially a Malaysian. Without people like him, our country would probably never exist at all. At least not like we know it now. I'm glad that Kam Raslan decided to capture this ...
5 comments
Read more