Subramaniam Krishnan, also known as K. S. Maniam, is a Malaysian writer and novelist who was born in 1942 in Bedong and died on February 19, 2020 at the University Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur's English Department from 1980 to 1985 and as an associate professor there from 1986 to 1997. He resided in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, with his wife, son, and daughter. His first novel, The Return, and second, In a Far Country, were released in 1981 and 1993, respectively. He was awarded for Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times–Shell contest in 1990 and The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times-McDonald Short Story Contest in 1987. In recognition of his great contribution to the writing of the South Asian diaspora, he received the Raja Rao Award for Literature for the first time in New Delhi in September 2000.
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