NTU hosts award-winning novelist Tash Aw as international writer-in-residence

“Acclaimed novelist Tash Aw will be the National Arts Council/Nanyang Technological University (NTU) international writer-in-residence at NTU starting on 10 January 2013.

Cover of The Harmony Silk Factory

Mr Aw is the author of three novels, which have been translated into 23 languages. The multi-award-winning Malaysian writer is one of Southeast Asia's most respected literary figures.

Published in 2005, Mr Aw's first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was long-listed for the renowned Man Booker Prize (2005) and won the prestigious 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award as well as the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel (Asia Pacific region). The novel was also long-listed for the prestigious International Impac Dublin Award (2007) and the Guardian First Book Prize. His second novel, Map of the Invisible World, was published in May 2009, also to critical acclaim. A third novel, Five Star Billionaire, is scheduled to be published in March 2013.”

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