Poet, essayist, playwright and actor Salleh Ben Joned passed away this morning, but the 79-year-old’s unrivalled legacy in Malaysian literature lives on in his work, family, friends and fans.
Born in 1941 in Malacca, Salleh left Malaysia in 1961 under a Colombo Plan Scholarship to study Arts at the University of Adelaide, Australia. At university is where Malachi Edwin Vethamani met Salleh back in 1975 when the latter was his English literature lecturer. “He would come to class usually late but he did arrive. He was always very exciting, very intriguing, very unconventional.
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