HONG KONGHONG KONG — Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng’s novel “The Garden of Evening Mists” has won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. Tan’s novel is set in the traumatic aftermath of Japan’s wartime ...

Tan Twan Eng, a Malaysian author born in Penang, is renowned for his writing that merges sensational fact with intimate fiction. At the 2023 Boston Book Festival on Oct. 14, Tan sat down for a ...

The moment Ethel Proudlock comes into the story, one has a vision of Bette Davis shooting a man in the back in a film based on Somerset Maugham’s The Letter. Somerset Maugham is one of the characters ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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." June 14, ...

The Boston Globe called this 2011 National Book Award winner "an intellectually invigorating, nonfiction version of a Dan Brown-like mystery-in-the-archives thriller." Harvard humanities professor ...

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. The long list ...

Last week, Malaysia's Tan Twan Eng received the Man Asian Literary Prize for "The Garden of Evening Mists." Mr. Tan, who also made last year's short list for the Man Booker Prize, spoke to the Journal ...

The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in George Town, Penang. Author Tan Twan Eng says there's a story behind every door in the city. (Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Tan Twan ...

Zadie Smith’s The Fraud (Hamish Hamilton), Benjamin Myers’ Cuddy (Bloomsbury) and Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors (Canongate) are among the books longlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for ...

Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng poses after his novel “The Garden of Evening Mists” won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong Thursday, March 14, 2013. The book beat four others Thursday night ...