![Jom Kita Bincang! - Sustainability, health, and social issues through children’s literature Jom Kita Bincang! - Sustainability, health, and social issues through children’s literature](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2024-06/51718095655_tbJomKitaBincang.jpg)
Jom Kita Bincang! - Sustainability, health, and social issues through children’s literature
Children's literature can be a big inspiration for young minds and thus society at large.
Tue Jun 11 2024
It's About YOUth: Harnessing the power of children's stories
How can children's literature be used to spark discussion on sustainability, health and social issues? Stockholm University’s Elina Druker and Architects of Diversity’s Neila Maryam explore the power of stories, and ways to cultivate the habit of reading.
Fri Mar 08 2024
![Should Taylor Swift be taught alongside Shakespeare? A professor of literature says yes Should Taylor Swift be taught alongside Shakespeare? A professor of literature says yes](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2024-02/61707101134_TBTaylorSwiftjp.jpg)
Should Taylor Swift be taught alongside Shakespeare? A professor of literature says yes
Taylor Swifts songs and Shakespeares Sonnets are meditations on deeply personal aspects of their narrators experiences.
Sat Feb 24 2024
![Language, literature aspects of civilisation that mustn't be sidelined - PM Anwar Language, literature aspects of civilisation that mustn't be sidelined - PM Anwar](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2023-05/61685430248_AnwarIbrahim.jpg)
Language, literature aspects of civilisation that mustn't be sidelined - PM Anwar
PM Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said a nation cannot also develop without progress in civilisation.
Tue May 30 2023
Let's Talk: English - Route to New Worlds
We look at English literature in Malaysia. Sharaad Kuttan speaks to K. S. Maniam, novelist and academic and recipient of the 2000 Raja Rao Award in 2000, for his outstanding contribution to the literature of the South Asian diaspora. And Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Thu Mar 17 2022
Let's Talk: Malaysian Lit in the World
Who does the writer or poet create for? Sharaad Kuttan speaks to K. S. Maniam, novelist and academic and recipient of the 2000 Raja Rao Award in 2000, for his outstanding contribution to the literature of the South Asian diaspora. And Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Thu Mar 17 2022
Let's Talk: English - Poetry, Short Stories or the Novel?
We discuss the popularity of the English-language Short Stories in Malaysian literature. Sharaad Kuttan speaks to K. S. Maniam, novelist and academic and recipient of the 2000 Raja Rao Award in 2000, for his outstanding contribution to the literature of the South Asian diaspora. And Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Thu Mar 17 2022
Let's Talk: Should We Change The Maths Curriculum?
The teaching of STEM - science, technology, engineering and Maths – subject has been given pride of place in the curriculum. As a teacher who has a love of literature and history, does he think this healthy? We speak to Eddie Woo.
Tue Mar 15 2022
Let's Talk: Are Schools Killing Our Love of Maths?
Eddie Woo, wanted to teach English Literature and History but convinced to fill the gap in the teaching of Maths. We ask this about this transition.
Tue Mar 15 2022
![Long shunned, ebooks are becoming the order of the day Long shunned, ebooks are becoming the order of the day](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2022-01/81641715917_READING.jpg)
Long shunned, ebooks are becoming the order of the day
As one of the more beneficial effects of the pandemic, literature lovers seem to have finally embraced the ebook.
Sun Jan 09 2022
!['Superhumans': The acclaimed author refusing to forget refugees 'Superhumans': The acclaimed author refusing to forget refugees](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2021-10/81635557853_CANADA.jpg)
'Superhumans': The acclaimed author refusing to forget refugees
Kim Thuy says 'refugee literature' has the power to restore lost identities and reveal the potential of these "superhumans".
Sat Oct 30 2021
![Nation building powered by stories Nation building powered by stories](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2020-09/71599184025_harimalaysia.jpg)
Nation building powered by stories
Ninot Aziz shares why the Hikayat and historical literature should have a place in every Malaysian classroom.
Wed Sep 15 2021
![Application for MyCreative literature, book publication grants opens from today Application for MyCreative literature, book publication grants opens from today](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2020-04/51586526401_bacabuku.jpg)
Application for MyCreative literature, book publication grants opens from today
MyCreative Ventures has reopened applications for Literarature and Book Publishing grants from July 19 to Aug 30.
Tue Jul 20 2021
![First collection of Shakespeare's plays sells for almost $10 million First collection of Shakespeare's plays sells for almost $10 million](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2020-10/51602731267_SHAKESPEARE.jpg)
First collection of Shakespeare's plays sells for almost $10 million
It includes 18 plays that had never been published before and might have been lost, including "Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar."
Thu Oct 15 2020
![American poet Louise Glck wins Nobel literature prize American poet Louise Glck wins Nobel literature prize](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2020-10/51602157102_LouiseGluck.jpg)
American poet Louise Glck wins Nobel literature prize
The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glck on Thursday "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".
Thu Oct 08 2020