Who says Malaysians don’t read?


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 02 Jun 2019

Favourite authors: Winners of the fiction and nonfiction categories of the Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards posing with guests of honour – Fu (centre), flanked by Chia (fourth from right) and Ng – at the award presentation ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: A novel set in the country’s past clearly struck a chord with modern-day readers – so much so that they voted it to the top at this year’s Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards (RCA).

Local author Chan Ling Yap’s Where The Sunrise Is Red is a tale of love, lies and resilience during the Emergency in 1950s Malaya.

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