Eddin Khoo is a poet, writer, translator, and journalist. He is the Founder of Pusaka, one of the region’s leading cultural centres, and the publishing house Kala, which devotes itself to publishing literary translations from the world’s languages into Malay.
He has worked closely with Malaysia’s masters of tradition and ritual researching aspects of oral transmission, cultural and religious politics and aspects of ritual in traditional theatre. He is a regular contributor of comment and opinion to publications across the world. Eddin Khoo is the co-author of a study on traditional Malay woodcarving, The Spirit of Wood. He is the translator of the Indonesian poet Goenawan Mohamad and the Malaysian poet Latiff Mohidin into English and will publish his Malay translation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 2026. He is presently compiling and editing the complete writings of his father, Malaysia’s National Historian Khoo Kay Kim.
Eddin Khoo contributes to weekly columns about the arts-cultural index – in Options, The Edge, Malaysia’s leading news and business weekly. Due to be released in 2026 is Eddin Khoo’s Recalcitrant: A Biography of Mahathir Mohamad and His Times – a political biography of Malaysia’ long time Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. He also runs a regular history podcast in Malay with one of Malaysia leading political figures, Khairy Jamaluddin, called Sejarah Kita (Our History).