Lloyd Fernando (31 May 1926 – 28 February 2008) was a Malaysian author and professor at the University of Malaya in the English Department.
Lloyd Fernando became an assistant lecturer at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in 1960.
Mr. Fernando was awarded a scholarship at Leeds University, UK where he received his PhD.
It has been described as "a sensitive novel about racial and religious tolerance set against the shadow of the 1969 racial riot in Kuala Lumpur [also known as the 13 May incident] where four main characters, good young people from different ethnic groups, become friends and even fall in love".
It has also been claimed that the use of Malaysian English in the novel serves as a political tool to indicate that different religious and ethnic groups in Malaysia may find a common language and a shared culture.