PETALING JAYA: Penang-born author Tan Twan Eng has become the first Malaysian shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
Tan, a former intellectual property lawyer, admitted to not expecting his novel The Garden of Evening Mists to be shortlisted, although he had been harbouring hopes that it would be.
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