Global Dialogues

Tash Aw, raised in Malaysia and educated in England, is a novelist and writer of short-fiction whose work illuminates the historic and contemporary experience of Southeast Asia. Two of his novels, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) and Five Star Billionaire (2013), have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. His short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and been published in A Public Space and the landmark Granta 100, among other outlets. Aw’s work has been translated into 23 languages. Based in London, he often returns to Asia and is a writer-in-residence at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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