K. S. Maniam

K. S. Maniam (born 1942) is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist.

K. S. Maniam was born in Bedong, Malaysia, of Indian immigrant parents. His first schooling was conducted in Tamil until he pestered his father into sending him to an English medium school. He trained at Malayan Teacher's College (UK) in the 1960s, returning to Malaysia to teach and study English at University of Malaya in the 1970s. He was Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of Malaya until 1997 when he took up writing full time. His writing commonly addresses the lives and problems of the post-colonial Indian Diaspora in Malaysia. In 2000 he received the Raja Rao Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature of the South Asian Diaspora.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Return (London: Skoob, 1981, 1993)
• In A Far Country (1993)
• Between Lives (2003)

Plays

• The Cord (1983)
• The Sandpit: Womensis (1990)

Short stories

• The Eagles (1976)
• Removal in Pasir Panjang (1981)
• The Pelanduk (1981)
• The Third Child (1981)
• The Dream of Vasantha (1981)
• Project: Graft Man (1983)
• We Make It To The Capital (1984)
• The Aborting (1986)
• Encounters (1989)
• Parablames (1989)
• Plot (1989)
• Haunting the Tiger (1990)
• Sensuous Horizons: The Stories & The Plays (1994)
• In Flight (written 1993, published 1995)
• Arriving ...and other stories (1995)
• Faced Out (2004)

External links

• K. S. Maniam 2 essays by the author
• Malaysia as myth in K. S. Maniam's In a Far Country by Peter Wicks (pdf)
• A Portrait of the Imagination as a Malleable Kolam: K. S. Maniam's In A Far Country by Shanthini Pillai
• "Renegotiating Identity and Belief in K.S. Maniam's The Return" by Tang Soo Ping
• "Your memories are our memories": Remembering Culture as Race in Malaysia and K.S. Maniam's Between Lives" by David C.L. Lim
• The Path of the Imagination: A Conversation with KS Maniam by David C.L. Lim
• The Infinite Longing for Home. Desire and the Nation in Selected Writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam by David C.L. Lim

References

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Name	Maniam, K. S.
Alternative names
Short description	Malaysian writer
Date of birth	1942
Place of birth	Bedong, Malaysia
Date of death
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