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Malaysia has two major national print newspapers in English and at least half a dozen English-language online news portals. Yet, while there appears to be a sufficiently large English-literate readership for news, this audience doesn’t seem to embrace local fiction in English with the same enthusiasm.
For the most part, book sales are insufficient to make publishing contemporary Malaysian fiction in English a financially viable prospect for most publishers.
Amir Muhammad is the founder of the publishing companies Matahari, Fixi and its subsidiary Fixi Novo, which specialises in Malaysian English-language fiction.
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