Celebrating Malaysian authors and books


KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians are turning to books on self-healing, divine guidance and finding peace so much so that two books with these themes in common ended up being voted as readers’ favourite written works at this year’s Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards (RCA).

Time to Heal by Norhafsah Hamid and Healing the Heart: Leaving Darkness for Light by Sharifah Nadirah and Muhammad Anas clinched the top prize in the fiction and non-fiction categories, respectively.

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