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  Za'ba

  Zainal Abidin Ahmad, juga dikenali sebagai Za'ba merupakan seorang sasterawan dan pemikir Melayu keturunan Minangkabau yang giat menulis sekitar tahun 1940-an. Berdasarkan pencapaiannya dalam bidang kesusasteraan, beliau merupakan salah seorang budak kampung yang berjaya meletakkan dirinya sebagai seorang tokoh yang terkemuka dalam sejarah Malaysia.
  
  Beliau merupakan seorang cendekiawan Melayu yang dihormati dan selama hampir 40 tahun, aktif dalam kegiatan penulisan termasuk penterjemahan. Aktiviti beliau juga tertumpu kepada penerbitan buku sekolah dan bacaan umum di Biro Penterjemahan, Maktab Perguruan Sultan Idris.
  
  Dilahirkan di Kampung Bukit Kerdas, Batu Kikir, Negeri Sembilan, Za'ba menerima pendidikan awalnya di sebuah sekolah Melayu di

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  Sun Tzu

  Sun Tzu (traditional Chinese: 孫子; simplified Chinese: 孙子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thought. Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure. His birth name was Sun Wu (traditional Chinese: 孫武; simplified Chinese: 孙武) and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing (Chinese: 長卿). The name Sun Tzu—by which he is more popularly known—is an honorific which means "Master Sun".
  Sun Tzu mas

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  George Orwell

  Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
  
  Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact

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  Shahnon Ahmad

  Dato' Haji Shahnon bin Ahmad (born 1933 in Sik, Kedah) is a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a former Member of Parliament. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.
  
  Shahnon has written a number books, one of the most notable being Shit @ PukiMak @ PM (1999), a controversial political satire. The book makes allegorical references to the ruling coalition government, Barisan Nasional (BN), its major component party, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamed. There were attempts by the government to ban this book and to strip Shahnon of his literary title.
  
  Some novels written by Shahnon inclu

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc

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  Thomas M. Nichols

  Dr. Thomas M. Nichols is a professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and an adjunct professor in the Harvard Extension School. He also taught at Dartmouth College, Georgetown University (where he earned his PhD), and other schools and lecture programs.
  
  He is currently a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and a Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University.
  
  He has also been a Fellow of the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
  
  In his Washington days, Professor Nichols was a fellow at the Center for Str

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  Yanis Varoufakis

  Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, since he founded it in 2018. A former member of Syriza, he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

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  Intan Paramaditha

  Intan Paramaditha menulis buku Sihir Perempuan, kumpulan cerita pendek yang masuk lima besar Khatulistiwa Literary Award pada tahun 2005; Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010), sebuah tribut untuk penulis horor Abdullah Harahap yang ditulis bersama Eka Kurniawan dan Ugoran Prasad; naskah drama Goyang Penasaran (Intan Paramaditha & Naomi Srikandi, ed, KPG 2013), diadaptasi dari cerpennya dan dipentaskan oleh Teater Garasi di Yogyakarta dan Teater Salihara, Jakarta. Ia mendapat penghargaan sebagai cerpenis terbaik Kompas 2013 lewat cerpen "Klub Solidaritas Suami Hilang." Pada tahun 2017 ia menerbitkan Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu, novel dengan alur beragam yang terpilih sebagai karya sastra bidang prosa terbaik pilihan Tempo 20

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  S. Othman Kelantan

  Dilahirkan sebagai Syed Othman bin Syed Omar (al-Yahya) pada 13 November 1938, di Tebing Tinggi, Kemumin, Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
  
  Beliau berkelulusan Sarjana Muda Sastera (1979) dan Sarjana Sastera (1982/83) dari Universiti Sains Malaysia. Kemudian pada tahun 1994/95 beliau memperoleh Ph.D dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Setelah lulus Ijazah Sarjana, S. Othman berkhidmat dengan Universiti Sains Malaysia selama dua tahun. Mulai tahun 1983, beliau berkhidmat di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia sebagai pensyarah di fakulti Pendidikan/ ATMA. Jawatan terakhirnya yang disandang ialah profesor madya hingga beliau bersara pada tahun 1997. Kemudian beliau berkhidmat sebagai pensyarah kontrak di Jabatan Pengajian Media, Universiti Malaya (1997

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• Siddiq Fadil

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  Syed Hussein Alatas

  Syed Hussein Alatas (September 17, 1928 – January 23, 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and post colonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.

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  Hasrizal Abdul Jamil

  Hasrizal holds a Bachelor of Sharia (Honours) from Mu’tah University, Jordan (2001). He is the Director of Education at Khalifah Education Foundation which operates Khalifah Model Schools in Malaysia. An educator and learning designer, blogger, and author, advocate children-centered learning, parenting, and domestic policy.
  
  Hasrizal succeeded in bookwriting after his AKU TERIMA NIKAHNYA (2008) became one of the National Best Sellers. He proceeded with many more books, such as BERCINTA SAMPAI KE SYURGA (2009), MURABBI CINTA (2010), RINDU BAU POHON TIN (2009), SECANGKIR TEH PENGUBAT LETIH (2010), TRANSFORMASI RAMADAN (2011), EDISI ISTIMEWA AKU TERIMA NIKAHNYA – Trilogy (2012), DI HAMPARAN SHAMROCK KUSERU NAMA-MU (2012), ERTI HIDUP PADA MEMBERI

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  Han Kang

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
  
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  Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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  Ibnu Rijal

  Muhammad Nazri bin Rijal atau nama penanya Ibnu Rijal adalah lulusan dalam bidang Syariah dan Sejarah. Kini beliau melanjutkan pengajian di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa salam bidang Kaunseling Pendidikan. Meminati bidang penulisan dan mula aktif dalam arena cerpen serta puisi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi. Beliau juga terlibat secara aktif dalam aktiviti-aktiviti sosial seperti "Save Palestine" serta banyak program-program beliau yang lain. Beliau juga adalah bekas pendidik di Qiraati Nizarnul Hayat, Penang dan di Al-Bahir Tahfiz centre di Kedah.

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  Zainal Rashid Ahmad

  Zainal Rashid Ahmad (ZRA) mencipta nama pada tahun 1990-an dengan cerpen-cerpen bernuansa eksperimental yang menjurus kepada menggabungkan sastera Melayu moden dan sastera Melayu lama. Zainal memenangi deretan anugerah sastera terutamanya Hadiah Sastera Utusan, Hadiah Sastera Perdana, Hadiah Sastera Islam dan pelbagai anugerah peringkat kebangsaan. Sehingga kini Zainal telah menghasilkan dua buah kumpulan cerpen iaitu Alkisah (2012) dan Yang Tercinta (2012). Zainal mempunyai pengalaman luas sebagai wartawan; pernah bertugas di Utusan Melayu, Astro, NTV7 dan TV3. Zainal turut menerima Anugerah Seri Angkasa 2004, Anugerah Media Pertahanan 2009, Anugerah Dokumentari Terbaik 2010 dan pelbagai anugerah PPFM sebagai Pengarah dan Penulis Skrip Ter

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• Mohd Faizal Musa

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  Thomas Erikson

  Thomas Erikson is a behaviourist and the bestselling author of the Surrounded by- series about human behaviours.
  
  The series, has been translated to close to 60 languages and has sold over 8 million copies.
  
  His mission is to make people’s lives easier by making them more aware of themselves and help people to a better understanding of what it takes to achieve the best possible communication.
  
  He is a highly sought-after public speaker with 120 keynotes yearly on topics such as human behaviours, self-awareness, , narcissism, and leadership.
  
  He lives by the simple but useful quote:
  You can’t change somebody else, but you can change yourself.
  
  Thomas was writing for twenty years before finally getting published. Being an author was his dream in life,

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  Za'ba

  Zainal Abidin Ahmad, juga dikenali sebagai Za'ba merupakan seorang sasterawan dan pemikir Melayu keturunan Minangkabau yang giat menulis sekitar tahun 1940-an. Berdasarkan pencapaiannya dalam bidang kesusasteraan, beliau merupakan salah seorang budak kampung yang berjaya meletakkan dirinya sebagai seorang tokoh yang terkemuka dalam sejarah Malaysia.
  
  Beliau merupakan seorang cendekiawan Melayu yang dihormati dan selama hampir 40 tahun, aktif dalam kegiatan penulisan termasuk penterjemahan. Aktiviti beliau juga tertumpu kepada penerbitan buku sekolah dan bacaan umum di Biro Penterjemahan, Maktab Perguruan Sultan Idris.
  
  Dilahirkan di Kampung Bukit Kerdas, Batu Kikir, Negeri Sembilan, Za'ba menerima pendidikan awalnya di sebuah sekolah Melayu di

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• Benz Ali

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• Felix K. Nesi

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• Zamir Mohyedin

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  Muhammad Asad

  محمد أسد (ليوبولد فايس سابقاً) ولد في الإمبراطورية النمساوية الهنجارية عام 1900، وتوفي في إسبانيا عام 1992م. وهو كاتب وصحفي ومفكر ولغوي وناقد اجتماعي ومصلح ومترجم ودبلوماسي ورحالة مسلم (يهودي سابقاً) درس الفلسفة في جامعة فيينا؛ وقد عمل مراسلاً صحفياً وبعد منحه الجنسية الباكستانية تولى عدة مناصب منها منصب مبعوث باكستان إلى الأمم المتحدة في نيويورك. وطاف العالم، ثم استقر في إسبانيا وتوفي فيها ودفن في غرناطة. ويعتبر محمد أسد أحد أكثر مسلمي أوروبا في القرن العشرين تأثيراً.
  لقب العائلة "فايس" اسم يعني باللغة الألمانية اللون الأبيض، وهذه إشارة واضحة للأصول الألمانية للعائلة، وكتابة „WEISS“ بتكرار حرف “ S „ في نهاية الاسم بدلا من „WEIß“ دليل واضح على الأصول اليهودية للعائلة. واسم والده "كيفا" وكان محامياً، وجده لأبيه كان حاخاماً، فهو الحاخام الأورث

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• Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi

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• Luqmanul Hakim Abdul Razak

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