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Meet Professor Dr Malachi Edwin Vethamani; A Litterateur Who Bagged Numerous Awards

by Nanthini Suresh
February 22, 2022
Image credit:  University of Nottingham

Image credit: University of Nottingham

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Writing is a task that necessitates extensive research and knowledge. In this field, just a few can be distinguished. In that case, meet Professor Dr Malachi Edwin Vethamani, a Malaysian-born Indian professor, poet, writer, critic, and bibliographer who has garnered widespread acclaim in this profession.

Image credit: Taylor’s University

Vethamani is a very well-known critic and bibliographer in academic circles, as well as an internationally recognised teacher trainer and expert in Malaysian literature in English. This poet, who hails from Brickfields, has earned numerous awards for his outstanding contributions to the writing.

Several awards and honours have been bestowed upon the retiring writer, who now gives occasional lectures.

  • Special Excellence Award, Alumni Laureate Award (2020) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Medal (2019), from the University of Nottingham.
  • Asian Education Leadership Award (2013) conferred by World Education Congress, Mumbai, India
  • Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) Special Award (2013)
  • Recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship (2000)
  • Chevening Award, which was a three-year scholarship for doctoral studies at University of Nottingham (1993 to 1996).

According to the source, The Malaysian English Language Teaching Association has named the MELTA-Malachi Edwin Creative Teacher Award after him.

This 67-year-old professor’s teaching career began by coincidence in 1979, when he applied for a teaching position as an English teacher at MARA Junior Science College (MRSM) Pengkalan Chepa and discovered that he loved it.

He became the founding dean of Wawasan Open University School of Education, Languages and Communication and Taylor’s University School of Education in 2009 and 2011, respectively, after a 26-year career as a lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia.

When he retired in January 2021, he was given the title Emeritus Professor by the University of Nottingham.

Image credit: Malachi Edwin Vethamani Books

He is an internationally recognised teacher trainer who has also provided training and consulting services to a variety of organisations.

Ronggeng-Ronggeng: Malaysian Short Stories, which spans 60 years of Malaysian short-story writing are among his publications.

In January 2018, Coitus Interruptus and Other Stories, his debut collection of short stories, was released. In July 2017, his second collection of poems, Life Happens, was published.

Complicated Lives was his first collection of poems that was published in 2016.

In addition, Playpen Performing Arts Trust in Mumbai recreated three of his stories from this book into monologues and performed them as Love Matters in 2017 and 2018.

Furthermore, his short story Best Man’s Kiss was adapted into a short play for Queer Ink’s Inqueerable event in Mumbai on September 8, 2019.

Image credit: UTAR

Along with that, he also published Malchin Testament: Malaysian Poems, a collection of Malaysian poems spanning 60 years. In 2003, he edited In-Sights: Malaysian Poems, a collection of poems for young adults.

In 2015, he wrote A Bibliography of Malaysian Literature in English which was the first bibliography to track Malaysians’ literary writings in English from 1950s to 2014.

Looking at Prof. Malachi’s incredible feat, I hope it inspires many aspiring writers and literary majors to pursue further studies in this field.

Source: University of Nottingham / Wikipedia

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