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Title : Dato' Usman Awang
Medium : Color pencils on colored paper
Size : 29.7cm x 42cm
Year : 2008
Collection : Artist
Signed and dated center right : fazrul
Description : Usman Awang (12 July 1929, Kuala Sedili, Johore - 29 November 2001, Kuala Lumpur) was a Malaysian poet, playwright and novelist. Malaysian National Laureate (1983). He was born into a penniless family in Johore, and had done coolies and served as a policeman when he was young. He was good at writing traditional Pantun poems. His career began at 1946, and he was a nucleus member of Angkatan Asas 50.