The Malaysia Premier Literary Award, which was introduced in 1971, this time was given for works published in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. The works are in the form of books, and short stories and poetry which appeared in the newspapers, journals and books, as well as works that had been developed into drama scripts.
There were three categories with the prize in each category being RM10,000 (category A), RM1,000 (B) and RM5,000 (C). Among the works that received the award were a children’s novel, “Azrul Wira Anak Laut” (by Hassan Omar), a novel for adolescents “Menikam Kalbu” (Faisal Tehrani), an anthology of poems entitled “Salju Shibuya” (Muhammad Salleh) and anthology of short stories entitled “Mekar Sakura di Mimbar Cinta” (Ilham Hamdani).
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