Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author born in Penang in 1972. [http://www.tantwaneng.com/news4.html] His first novel "The Gift of Rain" was published in 2007 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize that year; it is set in Penang in the years before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in WWII.

He studied law at the University of London and worked as an intellectual property lawyer in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently living in Cape Town, South Africa working on his second book (which is to be set in the Cameron Highlands, Pahang, during the Emergency). He has a first-dan ranking in aikido.

In the last year he has spoken and appeared at various literary festivals, including the Singapore Writers' Festival, the Ubud Writers' Festival in Bali, The Asia Man Booker Festival in Hong Kong, the Shanghai Literary Festival, the Perth International Writers' Festival, and also at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia.

He ranks Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro as two of the best writers writing today.

External links

* [http://www.tantwaneng.com Author website]
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=1573 Author interview]

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