Literary meeting to be held in RI

Literary meeting to be held in RI

KUALA LUMPUR (JP): A meeting of the Southeast Asian Literacy
Council is scheduled for March 1966 in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra.
This will be the first meeting of newly established council
outside of Malaysia.

"Majelis Sastra Asia Tenggara was established at a meeting
between representatives of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, held
from Aug. 21 to Aug. 25 this year," A. Aziz Deraman of the
Malaysian Language and Literature Board said yesterday.

His institution was instrumental in setting up the council,
whose purpose is to stimulate closer cooperation between authors
writing in the Malay language in the region, to research
traditional Malay literature and to stimulate comparative
literature studies through translation.

The council will also be presenting awards of excellence for
writers.

H. Ahmad Kamal Abdullah, the organizer of the ongoing Seminar
on Comparative Literature in Kuala Lumpur, said that the newly
established literary council's awards are designed to "give
recognition to writers producing high quality Malay language
literature in Southeast Asia. (mag)