Prolific writer: KS Maniam, as a playwright and founding member of Five Arts Centre, standing before a publicity poster of his play ‘The Cord’ in 1984. His first two novels were (pic, below) ‘The Return’, published in 1981 and ‘In a Far Country’ (1993). — Filepic
PETALING JAYA: Award-winning local author and academic KS Maniam, known for his novels The Return and In A Far Country, died of cancer of the bile duct. He was 78.
Maniam breathed his last at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre on Wednesday.
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