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Rajendra 1941 - 0 (-1941)

If I did not care, I would not dare, chart your imperfections.


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Death of a village




Cecil Rajendra (born 1941) is a Malaysian poet and lawyer, whose poems have been translated into many languages ​​and published in more than 50 countries. He was born in Penang where he completed his basic education and then studied law at the University of Singapore. He returned to Malaysia and worked as a lawyer while also writing poetry and essays on human rights and environmental issues. As a lawyer, he focused on providing legal aid, even free of charge, to poorer people.

In 1993 the Malaysian government confiscated his passport to prevent him from traveling due to his involvement in protests against logging in a forest and his statements about the human rights situation in his homeland, which he made in 1992 in a International Tourism Fair in Berlin. He was considered to be damaging the image of the country abroad with his views. In 2005, however, he was awarded an award in recognition of his pioneering work of legal aid and his exemplary poetry. In the same year he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded to Harold Pinder He has become known as the lawyer poet.