Join us for an evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Tan Twan Eng, to discuss his new book, The House of Doors, with Professor Shirley Chew. There will be time for questions from the audience, and book sales and book signing will be held after the event.
This event is a joint initiative by NTU's School of Humanities and the National Arts Council.
ABOUT TAN TWAN ENG:
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The House of Doors is his third novel.
ABOUT SHIRLEY CHEW:
Shirley Chew is Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, UK; and currently a Professor at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include Postcolonial and Contemporary World Literatures. Among her publications are the co-edited Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999), Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (2001), and the Blackwell Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature (2010). Recent publications include articles on Amitav Ghosh (2013), Boey Kim Cheng (2015), Anita Desai (2018), Han Suyin (2021), Amanda Lee Koe (2021), Madeleine Lee (2022). She is the founding editor of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (2001-2020), published from the University of Leeds, and, since 2011, from Leeds and NTU.
VENUE: Chamber, The Arts House
ADDRESS: 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
EVENT WEBSITE: ACWP for registration
DATE AND TIME
30 July 2023, 7pm-8.30pm