Tan Twan Eng (Chinese: 陳團英, b. 1972) is a Malaysian novelist who writes in English. He published his first novel, The Gift of Rain , in 2007. He is best known for his 2012 book The Garden of Evening Mists which won the Man Asian Literary Prize [ 1 ] and Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction , and was shortlisted for the Man Booker ...

His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Tan Twan Eng (b. 1972), author of The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), his second novel, is making history: This year, he edged out Orhan Pamuk to become the first Malaysian recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize, an award created in 2007 to draw global attention to works by Asian writers, and last month he beat crowd favorite Hilary Mantel ...

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. His first novel, The Gift of Rain , was longlisted for the Man Booker. His second, The Garden of Evening Mists was a major international bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker, and winner of the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for ...

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied law at the University of London and later worked as lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s most reputable law firms; in 2016, he was an International Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

2023年10月18日 · The writer W. Somerset Maugham plays a central role Tan Twan Eng's entrancing new novel that encompasses at-the-time risky interracial and homosexual love stories and a scandalous murder trial ...

2023年8月21日 · With The House of Doors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Tan Twan Eng about beginning with the book’s final sentence – and why it’s harder to write fiction about real people

2024年2月6日 · With the publication of his most recent novel, “The House of Doors,” Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng invites readers to meditate on the collectively shared past through the lens of his...

Tan Twang Eng has to be one of the most accomplished novelists from Malaysia whose works have garnered praise from the literati and been recognized across the globe. He was the first non-British author to ever win the prestigious Walter Scott Prize with the publishing of “The Garden of Evening” his second novel in 2011.

Tan Twan Eng is one of the most successful Malaysian novelists whose historical fiction has garnered international recognition and praise from the literati. His second novel The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) made him the first non-British writer to win the Walter Scott Prize, earned him the Man Asian Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for the ...