Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for
the Man 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 Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award. He divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. tantwaneng.com