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Speaker: Tan Twan Eng
Discussant: Sharon Bakar
Date: Sunday, Dec 1, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM – 5:30PM
Venue: Eastern & Oriental Hotel, 10, Lebuh Farquhar, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
About Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. 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 Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The House of Doors is his third novel. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2024. It was also selected by Her Majesty Queen Camilla for The Queen’s Reading Room Book Club. Tan was one of the judges for the International Booker Prize 2023.
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