Department of English Language and Literature

EDITED ANTHOLOGIES Muhammad, Amir, ed. Silverfish New Writing 1. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfishbooks, 2001. Fadzillah Amin, ed. Her World Short Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Berita Publishing, 1982. Fernando, Lloyd, ed. Twenty-two Malaysian Stories: An Anthology of ...

co-)edited numerous important books dealing with many different aspects of Malaysian and Singaporean literatures written in English, and is considered one of the leading critical authorities on them. In recent times, Professor Quayum has turned his attention to translation and has already published translations of works by two of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, namely Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. He also has to his credit about fifty scholarly articles published in top-ranking peer-reviewed journals. Professor Quayum is the Founding Editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature and has been co-editor of World Literature Written in English for eight years.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders."-Rabindranath Tagore Reading this book felt like a reality slap. Racial differences, child marriages and other similar ugly dilemmas, fused with insights into the various human natures and their ability to either unite or divide, basically makes up this compilation of stories from Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Mohammad M Quayum, a native Bengali speaker and an English professor at International Islamic University Malaysia.