Norulashikin bte Jamain Singapore

Bio
Born in 1955, Norulashikin is currently working as a librarian at the National Library Board. Besides poetry, she also writes short stories and book reviews. Her first poem was published in Berita Minggu in 1978. She received the Merit Award in the Malay Language Council of Singapore’s Literary Award in 1999 (for short story) and in 2001 and 2003 (for poems). Two of her poems were published in the anthology Tiga Warna Bertemu (1987), while another was included in the multilingual anthology, Rhythms: A Singaporean Millennial Anthology of Poetry (2000). Her first book Perjalanan Waktu, a collection of poems, was published in 2005.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I would always like books by Khadijah Hashim, a Malaysian writer, who has written many Malay adult and teenage novels in the past, but now writing more books for children. Her first novel, Badai Semalam, is very special to me as it inspires me to love literature and to be a strong woman like Mazni, the main character in the book , who struggles to go to the university despite poverty and failed marriage."

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