Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian writer born in Penang in 1972. He was a Law student in University of London and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in Kuala Lumpur before becoming a full time writer. He is now living in Cape Town.

Career

His first novel was 'The Gift of Rain' which was published in 2007. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. It takes the setting of Penang during the pre and post Japanese Occupation of Malaya in World War II. The novel has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech, Serbian and French.

His second novel which Is ‘The Garden of Evening Mists’ was published in 2012. It was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and won the Man Asian Literary Prize and Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. He has also given speeches at literary festivals as Singapore Writers Festival, the Ubud Writers' Festival in Bali, the Asia Man Booker Festival in Hong Kong, the Perth Writers festivals, the Abbotsford Convent in Australia and Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa.

Works:

l. The Gift of Rain (2007)

2. The Garden of Evening Mists (2012)

(Source: Wikipedia)