Background
His father is Haji Sulaiman Abdullah, who was born G. Srinivasan Iyer, a Tamil Brahmin who later converted to Islam.
His father is Haji Sulaiman Abdullah, who was born G. Srinivasan Iyer, a Tamil Brahmin who later converted to Islam.
One of Malaysia"s leading dramatists, acclaimed for his vibrant, inventive use of language and incisive insight into human behaviour in general and the Asian psyche in particular. He currently lives in Singapore, which he moved to in 2003. Sulaiman is a veteran lawyer who served as Malaysian Bar Council president
His mother is Hajjah Mehrun Siraj, who has served as a professor, lawyer, consultant for United Nations agencies, non-governmental organization activists and a Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.
Foreign a short time in the early part of the 1990s, he hosted an afternoon talk show on WOW FM, a now-defunct Malaysian radio station. In the 1990s, Huzir also spent a year writing sketches with the Instant Café Theatre Company before starting the Straits Theatre Company in 1996.
He began writing plays in 1997. He also contributed articles to the The Star and The Huffington Post, publishes the online magazine POSKOD.SG and co-founded the creative consultancy Studio Wong Huzir.