Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the Walter Scott Prize, which honors historical fiction writers, for his post-World War Two novel, The Garden of Evening Mists. Tan, who was born in Penang ...

Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng received his third nomination for the Booker Prize, this time for The House Of Doors, a book of historical fiction drawn from the life of Somerset Maugham.

From Africa, 1947, Lesley is transported back to Penang, 1921, and a visit from the writer Somerset Maugham, in Tan Twan Eng's novel of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire. We use cookies ...

Maugham, under his own name, is one of the two principal players in Tan Twan Eng’s captivating novel “The House of Doors.” ...

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This year’s shortlist spanned Asia from Turkey to Japan and included Indian Jeet Thayil, who, like Tan Twan Eng, was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Photo: Philippe Lopez/AFP.( ...

Malaysian novelist impresses judges with tale about memory and forgetting in the shadow of second world war Jeet Thayil and Tan Twan Eng, shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, are up against ...

Authors from W Somerset Maugham through to Tan Twan Eng and Catherine Lim feature, and issues of power, the concept of the Asian gothic, and psychogeography are all examined through the lens of the ...

At the 2023 Boston Book Festival on Oct. 14, Tan sat down for a conversation with Rachel Cantor and Virginia Pye on “Defiance: Literary Imagination and the Power of Stories.” While Krumme ...

Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce (PCCC) life honorary president Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping’s defamation suit against Penang chief ...

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