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- Q12471810 description "Malaysian writer".
- Q12471810 description "Malaysian writer".
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- Q12471810 abstract "Amin Sweeney (December 13, 1938 in England - 13 November 2010 in Indonesia) is a Malay linguist who comes from Irish descent. He is primarily known as the author of three volumes of The Complete Works of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi and as the chief editor of the online literary journal Horizon Online, a prominent Indonesian literary magazine managed by Taufiq Ismail.Amin Sweeney was born in England in 1938 and was sent to join the Malay army in 1958 to stop the communist movement. Whilst in the army he chose to live with the Malay soldiers and moved to Kluang from Melaka where he taught English. During his time as a lieutenant in the army he taught himself Malay and Islam culture. A year later he returned to London and converted to Islam in a London Mosque.Amin’s interest in Malay language and literature drove him to study these topics at the University of London. In 1970, he completed his doctorate dissertation in Malay literature. He then became a lecturer and a professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (1970–1977). Afterwards, he was an advisor for graduate and postgraduate programs, Chairman of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies (1986–1991) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Southeast Asia Studies (1991–1998) at the University of California, Berkeley, US, until he retired and became an emeritus professor in 1998.Amin lived in Cibeureum, near Cipayung, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Although Sweeney married several times his current wife Sastri Sunarti, is an editor at Horison and an expert on Bahasa Indonesia; she is also the reason he moved to Jakarta. Sweeney has a daughter with Sastri and a son and a daughter from a previous marriage as well as four grandchildren. When he died, he was still in the process of becoming an Indonesian citizen from a Malaysian one.".
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- Q12471810 birthDate "1938-12-13".
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- Q12471810 name "Sweeney, Amin".
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- Q12471810 comment "Amin Sweeney (December 13, 1938 in England - 13 November 2010 in Indonesia) is a Malay linguist who comes from Irish descent. He is primarily known as the author of three volumes of The Complete Works of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi and as the chief editor of the online literary journal Horizon Online, a prominent Indonesian literary magazine managed by Taufiq Ismail.Amin Sweeney was born in England in 1938 and was sent to join the Malay army in 1958 to stop the communist movement.".
- Q12471810 label "Amin Sweeney".
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