Dedication copy – Rajendra, Cecil. – Lovers Lunatics & Lallang

First edition. – Front fly-leaf with long, signed poem by the author, dated (19)91. – Cecil Rajendra (born 1941) is a Malaysian poet and lawyer. He is nicknamed “The Lawyer-Poet” nd writes controversial poems that address human rights and enviroment problems. His poems have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into several languages. In 1993 he had his passport taken from him by the Malaysian government, to prevent him from traveling. “Mr. Rajendra’s passport was retained for his antilooging activities, which it was felt could dmage the country’s umage overseas”. In 2005 he was awarde the first Malaysian Lifetime Humanitarian Award and was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which then went to Harold Pinter.