LITERARY PROFILE

Dato’ Dr M SHANmughalingam, author, Malaysian bestseller, Marriage and Mutton Curry with international prizewinning short stories, launched by HRH Sultan Dr Nazrin Shah, Sultan of Perak, and YDP Timb. Agung, M’sia, 4 Oct, 2018, KL. Sold 4,000+ copies and on its 5th reprint. UK edition, launched, London, 5 May, 2020. Sole winner, British Council Short Story Prize, Editor’s choice from 1,450 entries, Ireland’s Fish Int’l Short Story Prize. His poem, required reading for Form II students in M’sian schools. Short story, co-published, ku.lit:asian literature for the language classroom, ‘a model of humour in prose’, Pearson Educ. South Asia Pte Ltd and National Arts Council, launched, S’pore Writers festival. 2nd prize, Oxford Univ. Short Story competition judges Iris Murdoch and Lit Prof, John Bayley. Published with three Nobel prize-winners, New Voices of the Commonwealth, (ed) Howard Sergeant, Evans Bros Ltd, UK. Work published & broadcast in 37 anthologies in Australia, France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, UK, US, in universities (Harvard, Malaya, Oxford & S’pore) and in national literary journals. Producers from Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand offered to make movies of his work. Subject of theses in universities in Malaysia and Germany.