User:Kangesh/T.Wignesan

T.Wignesan: Born in Kuala Krai, Malaysia. Up to his twenty-first year grew up in Singapore, Port Swettenham, Klang, Sungei Rengam, Kuala Lumpur, Madras and Seremban; then in London, Heidelberg, West Berlin, Madrid and Paris. Education: After only four years of schooling (at Batu Road School and the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur: 1946 to 1949), took his school and higher school certificates (Cambridge University: 1951 (SC: Grade One) & 1953 (HSC) and London University GCE:4 A-levels & 1 0-level, 1955), and read for the Bar at the Inns of Court School of Law, London (1953-56); started a doctoral dissertation in epistemology (Philosophy) at Heidelberg Universität and Freien Universität in West Berlin (1957-58); Hispanic Studies in Madrid (1968-72): Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1970-72), and Instituto de la Cultura Hispanica (1971-72), and at the Université de Paris-VIII (Maitrise d’Enseignement d’Espagnol: 1972-73); conversion of Doctorat de 3ème Cycle into Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres in February 1982 at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle: viva, fixed for June 3, 1983, postponed sine die due to a jury problem; then obtained his higher doctoral degree in aesthetics from the Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines) in March 1987. Distinctions in both the master’s and doctoral degrees. Won the Extraordinary Prize in Hispanic Studies at Madrid University (1971). Career: Manual worker during the Second World War, and later in London and in Germany. Taught in primary and secondary schools: Vivekananda English School, Chung Hwa Middle School, Seremban, and St. Aloysius School, Mantin in Malaysia (1951-53) and at the Colegio Claret in Madrid (1968-69). Lectured for the Commonwealth Institute, London, on South and Southeast Asia (1965) and taught courses in English, American, and Commonwealth literatures at the European Division of the University of Maryland (1960-61) and at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (1981-83). Served as Research Fellow with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), from 1973 to 1998. Professor of South Asian Area Studies, American Graduate School of International Relations & Diplomacy (2003-04), Arcadia University in Paris. Also earned a living in between jobs as private tutor in Malaysia, Germany, Spain (to doctors in teaching hospitals: La Paz, Puerta de Hierro, Concepcion, and Ciudad Francisco Franco, 1967-72), and France. Was a journalist with the Malay Mail (Reporter:1954) & Malayan Times (Special Correspondent:1962), and the Straits Times Press Group of Singapore as Foreign Correspondent in London: 1964-65; Editorial Writer, "Guidepost" [Madrid, 1967]). Also served as a Malaysian publisher’s editor and representative in Malaysia & London, UK (1961-64). On the Board of Advisors: "Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies", Chennai, India. On the Editorial Board: "Asian Politics and Policy", Washington-Peking. Publications include: Etude comparée des littératures nationales et/ou officielles de la Malaisie et de Singapour depuis 1940, 2 vols., 1152p. (Université de Charles de Gaulle- Lille-III, 1988/2007); Tracks of a Tramp: A first collection of poems-1948-61(Kuala Lumpur-Singapore: Rayirath Publications, 1961, 37p.); Editor : Bunga Emas : An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature 1930-63 (London :1964, 272p.); Co-Editor: Fire Readings: A Collection of Contemporary Writings from the Shakespeare & Company Fire Benefit Readings (Paris-Boston: 1991, 198p.); Guest Editor: Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies:Millennium Number (Chennai, India: IAS, 2000, xii-173p.); Memoirs: Victorian (pen-in-cheek)Vignettes and Tales (not so tall) of Timmy (the not so very polite) Malaya Hall Cat in L o n d o n. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, xv-207p.; Night Soil Man (novel)Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, 193p. ;  mere deaths and the mostly dead (collection of five long and five short stories)Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, 275p.; Poietics: Disquisitions on the Art of Creation (Theoretical essays on the science and philosophy of creation). Allahabad: Cyberwit.net,2008,214p.;                                                                      Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: On Tamils, Tamil Literature and Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies, 2006, xiii-439 p.; also Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, 750p.; Sporadic Striving amid Echoed Voices, Mirrored Images & Stereotypic Posturing in Malaysian-Singaporean Literatures. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, xix-244p.; "Asianists ASIA" Edited by T.Wignesan. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2009, 185p. F o u n d e r - E d i t o r: The Journal of Comparative Poietics ( Paris: 1989); Founder-Editor of the on-line journal: "The Asianists’ Asia". Deprived of his citizenship rights in Malay(si)a in 1961 and invited to leave the country in 1962. A Stateless Person ever since his British Passport, issued in Kuala Lumpur, was confiscated by the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, in 1967. But the Spanish authorities refused to grant him the statutory Travel Document. 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