Zainal Abidin Ahmad — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Zainal Abidin Ahmad (writer), known as Za'ba; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth on 16 September 1895 at Batu Kikir, Negeri Sembilan, his teaching career in Malaya and Singapore and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, his Pelita Bahasa grammar series and the Za'aba spelling system, his essays and Shakespeare translations, and his death on 23 October 1973 at Petaling Jaya, with burial at the Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur. Its infobox carries no religion field.

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