Introducing a Brunei Woman Writer: An Interview with Dayang Hajah Norsiah Abdul Gapar

Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia. She is on the editorial board of various international journals, and a member of the Southeast Asian Literature Council (Mastera). She was a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, New York, in 2006/07. Her works include The Islamic Interpretation of ‘Tragic Hero’ in Shakespearean Tragedies (IIUM Press, 2001) and Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English, 1940s-1990s (IIUM Press, 2001). She is also a bilingual creative writer and has published a collection of poems entitled In the Art of Naming: A Muslim Woman’s Journey (2006).