Pauline Fan, Beyond Redemption: Fatimah Busu and the Reckoning of Malay Literature March 27, 2025 – Posted in: In The News, Reviews

On this terrible morning, everything is relentless – Fatimah Busu, “The Lovers of Muharram” An Ordinary Tale About Women and Other Stories, recently published by Penguin Random House SEA, gathers my translations of ten of Fatimah Busu’s most searing short stories. These narratives, steeped in the rhythms and struggles of rural Malay life, lay bare the quiet resilience and fierce defiance of women caught in the grip of economic hardship, gendered oppression, sexual violence, and…

English translations bring Fatimah Busu’s BM stories to new audiences March 5, 2025 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Hanis Maketab, The Star4 March 2025 Within Malay literature circles, Fatimah Busu is already a familiar and highly-respected name, especially when great Malay women writers are being discussed. Now, English language readers are finally getting the chance to get better acquainted with the prolific Kelantanese author’s writings. An Ordinary Tale About Women And Other Storieshttps://arecabooks.com/product/an-ordinary-tale-about-women-and-other-stories/https://arecabooks.com/product/an-ordinary-tale-about-women-and-other-stories, translated by Pauline Fan and published by Penguin Random House SEA, features 10 of Fatimah’s short stories that have been…