Tan (centre) having his photo taken with guests at a film screening of 'The Garden Of Evening Mists' in Penang in January this year. Photo: Filepic
“On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.”
This is the opening sentence of the poetically languorous novel, The Garden Of Evening Mists (2012), by Malaysian literary giant Tan Twan Eng.
Malaysian authors on the global stage
Tan (centre) having his photo taken with guests at a film screening of 'The Garden Of Evening Mists' in Penang in January this year. Photo: Filepic
Choo, who is working on her third book, said it will combine elements of magical realism with historical fiction, like her second book 'The Night Tiger' (2019). Photo: Handout
London-based Malaysian author Cho is a Crawford, British Fantasy and Hugo award winner. Photo: Darren Johnson
Saras made waves last year when she was named regional winner of Asia for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Photo: Handout
Kow (left) won a top French literary award in 2018, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger (First Novel Award, in the foreign category) for her debut novel 'The Sum Of Our Follies' (2014). Photo: Embassy of France
Hanna second book 'The Girl And The Ghost' (2020) is a finalist for the US Kirkus Prize this year in the Young Reader’s Literature category. Photo: The Star/Ong Soon Hin
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