In 1984, the Singaporean--Chinese poet Wong Yoon Wah, was awarded the Southeast Asia Writing Award. In 1972, the Malaysian-Chinese poet Leo Huat received the Malaysian National Literature Award. It appears that Chinese literature has received affirmation after seventy years of development in Singapore and Malaysia.
一九八四年，新華詩人王潤華「象外象」一書獲得泰國王儲「東南亞寫作獎」；一九七二年馬華詩人年紅（即張發）以詩歌獲得馬來西亞「國家文學獎」的首相獎，發展了七十年的新、馬華文文學正式受到肯定。