Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author born in Penang. His first novel The Gift of Rain was published in 2007 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He worked as an intellectual property lawyer before going full time into writing. He has a first-dan ranking in aikido.
He has spoken at and appeared at various literary festivals, including the Singapore Writers' Festival, the Ubud Writers' Festival in Bali, the Asia Man Booker Festival in Hong Kong, the Shanghai Literary Festival, the Perth International Writers' Festival, and also at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia. In May 2009 and May 2011 he was a guest at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa.
He ranks Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro as two of the best writers writing today.
The Gift of Rain has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech, Serbian and French. His second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists will be published in January 2012.
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