THANK you, Daphne Lee, for saying it as it should be said! No truer words have been written about writing in English in Malaysia (“Wasting our talent?”, Tots To Teens, Star2, June 8). While other countries formerly under British colonial rule have produced outstanding writers in English, we have produced at best two.
The quality of writing of most writers here is at best mediocre. The line between genres has been blurred, and works of fiction are thinly disguised memoirs or biographies.
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