Tan Twan Eng
Tan Twan Eng is the author of The gift of rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and The garden of evening mists, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It was made into an award-winning film in 2020.
His third novel, The house of doors, will be published in the UK in May 2023 and in the US in October 2023.
He is also one of the five judges of the International Booker Prize 2023, and is currently reading his way through approximately 150 novels submitted for the prize.
Podcast: Lodewyk G du Plessis and Tan Twan Eng discuss The dao of Daniel
2022-12-15The dao of Daniel by Lodewyk G du Plessis, translated by Michiel Heyns, was launched on Thursday, 8 December at Exclusive Books at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. The author was in conversation with Tan Twan Eng.