Zakaria Ariffin

Ariffin was born at Kuantan, where he graduated from high school. In 1974, he entered the Pedagogical College of Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, but only studied there for five months. During that time, however, he was acquainted with the playwright Noordin Hassan, who liked how he staged his play "The Door". On the advice of the master in 1975, he entered the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Science in Penang. His teachers were well-known theater-makers and directors Kala Devata (Mustafa Kamil Yasin), Ghulam Sarwar, Gus Nasaruddin, Krishen Jeet, Zainal Latif. At the same time, he took an active part in Penang's theatrical group Angkatan Sasaran both as an actor and as a stage director, began writing and staging his plays ("Penunggu Warisan", 1977).[1]

After graduating from the university in 1978, he started to work in the department of literature of The Institute of Language and Literature of Malaysia (DBP), where he had the opportunity to communicate with well-known writers, such as Usman Awang, Osman Zainuddin, Johan bin Jaafar, Atondra, and Malina Manjoy. Here he joined the theatrical company of the DBP "Anak Alam” and played in such productions as "Hunchback from Tanjung Putri" by Shahrom Hussein, "Visitors at Kenny Hill" by Usman Awang, "Seven corpses and statues" of Hatta Azad Khan, "Where the Moon Always Cracks" A. Samad Said, etc.[2] Along with this, he continued to write plays himself: The Opera House (1978), The King of the Fools (1993), Do not Kill Sam (1994), The Woman of the English Lieutenant (1995), mostly of protest and satirical character with the elements of the Malay Opera bangsawan.[3] Some of his plays attracted the attention of the Central Television (for example, "If you are not lucky, you will not get lucky"). The cooperation with Noordin Hassan continued, in particular, in 1994 he took part in staging his play "This night the tortoise cried."

In 1996, he moved to work as a lecturer to the National Academy of Arts, where he soon headed the theater department. There he staged his new plays "This is not the end (1996)," Teja "(1997)," Imam "(1998), and also with the support of the Ministry of Culture, large-scale productions of the old ones - "The Opera House "(1988),"King of the fools"(1997),"Siti Zubaidah"(2000) on the stage of the prestigious Palace of Culture in Kuala Lumpur.[4] In 2001, he initiated the wayang Festival of Nusantara. In 2007, he published the play "Kesuma", which received a wide resonance in theater circles.[5] In 1997, he participated in the international writing program at Iowa University (USA).[6]

As a theater critic, he published the books "Modern Malay Drama in Essays" (1981) and "The Drama of Three Epochs" (1984).

• Esso-Gapen II Prize (1988/89)
• Literary Prize of Malaysia (1988/89)
• Award "Seri Angkasa" of Radio and Television of Malaysia (1988/89)
• S.E.A. Write Award (2001)
• Literary Prize of Johor (2007)
• State prize in the field of art (in the nomination for individual achievements, 2009)

• Zakaria Ariffin. Drama Melayu moden dalam esei. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1981.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Drama tiga zaman. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1984.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Indahnya pelangi / cerita. Iustrasi Ibrahim Md. Said. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1985.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Perantau zaman. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1986.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Glosari istilah kesusasteraan. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1988 (совместно с др.).
• Zakaria Ariffin. Pentas opera . Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1989.
• Zakaria Ariffin. The opera house (Pentas opera) . Translator Solehah Ishak. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1989.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Keris Mas. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1989 (совместно с др.).
• Zakaria Ariffin. Mengenal Budaya Bangsa. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1990.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Samad Ismail. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1991 (совместно с др.).
• Zakaria Ariffin. Usman Awang. Kuala Lumpur : Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1991 (совместно с др.).
• (ред.) Zakaria Ariffin. Modern ASEAN Plays: Malaysia. Kiala Lumpur: ASEAN Committee on Culture & Information, 1994.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Siti Zubaidah : sebuah skrip bangsawan. Kuala Lumpur : Istana Budaya, 2001.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Biografi seniman negara Rahman B. Kuala Lumpur : Sierra Focus Sdn. Bhd., 2005.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Filem : karya dan karyawan (kumpulan esei dan kritikan filem). Kuala Lumpur : Akademi Seni Kebangsaan, 2005.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Merdeka! merdeka! merdeka! : sebuah drama sejarah. Kuala Lumpur : Istana Budaya, 2006.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Kemahiran hidup bersepadu kemahiran teknikal : tingkatan 1,2,3 KBSM (cовместно с K. H. Khiu). Petaling Jaya : PEP Publications, 2009.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Kemahiran hidup bersepadu : kemahiran teknikal. Tingkatan 1, 2 & 3 KBSM (совместно с Rubiah Effendi). Petaling Jaya, Selangor : PEP Publications, 2012.
• Zakaria Ariffin. Trilogi Raja Lawak. Kuala Lumpur : ITBM, 2014.