Adam Kadir has written 17 books and hundreds of articles, essays and columns in local newspapers and magazines. (Bernama pic)
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Senate president Adam Kadir has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, the prestigious annual award by the Swedish Academy.
It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established through the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has “provided the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction”.
Confirming his nomination, Adam told Bernama today that this was the third time in a row that he had been nominated since 2022.
“Hopefully, I’ll be third-time lucky,” he said when contacted.
Adam, who served as Senate president between 1995 and 1996, said he had written 17 books, apart from hundreds of articles, essays and columns in local newspapers and magazines.
As a general rule, he said past winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature had typically been nominated three times.
For the record, no Southeast Asian writer has won the Nobel Prize for Literature so far.
Rabindranath Tagore of India was the first Asian to have made it in 1913.
Adam said he had been writing in various genres since his school days at the Sultan Abu Bakar School in Kuantan, where he won various prizes at the state and national levels.
He continued writing during his undergraduate years at Universiti Malaya in the 1960s, when he published his first novel.
Adam received his Master of Laws in corporate and commercial laws from the University of London, Master of Science from Ohio University and the Advanced Management Program certificate from Harvard University in the US.
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