Tan Twan Eng

personal-info

known-for

Writing

gender

Male

birthday

1972-01-01

place-of-birth

Penang, Malaysia

also-known-as

陳團英

biography

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian novelist known for being the first Malaysian recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize., the first Malaysian novelist to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the first Malaysian author to win the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.