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Tan Twan Eng

August 2023

  • The Booker longlist 2023.

    Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist

  • Justine Jordan

    Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depth

    Justine Jordan

April 2021

  • Saoirse Ronan in the film version of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2015).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 homecomings in fiction

    From Colm Tóibín to Margaret Atwood and Yaa Gyasi, these stories reflect on the ambivalent complications of going back to where you’re from

April 2014

  • Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Impac prize shortlist pits newcomers against international stars of fiction

    Alison Flood: Karl Ove Knausgaard and Juan Gabriel Vásquez vie with debutants Donal Ryan and Patrick Flanery for €100,000 award

March 2013

  • Tan Twan Eng

    Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian prize

    Malaysian novelist impresses judges with tale about memory and forgetting in the shadow of second world war

January 2013

  • Tan Twan Eng and Jeet Thayil

    Man Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-match

    Jeet Thayil and Tan Twan Eng, shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, are up against each other again on the shortlist for Asian literature award

October 2012

  • Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel's second Booker winner is just the latest in a brilliant catalogue

  • The Garden of Evening Mists

    Booker 2012 hustings
    Why The Garden of Evening Mists should win the 2012 Booker prize - video

August 2012

  • Japanese garden in Yokohama

    The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - review

    Kapka Kassabova on an informative, if bland, Booker-longlisted novel

August 2007

  • Books blog
    Booker club: The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

    This novel evokes inevitable comparisons with Joseph Conrad. But it's also like a Merchant Ivory film with lots of martial arts.

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