Tan Twan Eng (Chinese: 陳團英) is a Malaysian novelist born in Penang in 1972.Tan studied law at the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in one of Kuala Lumpur's law firms before becoming a full-time writer. He has a first-dan ranking in aikido and lives in Malaysia.His first novel, The Gift of Rain, published in 2007, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. It is set in Penang before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World War II. The Gift of Rain has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech, Serbian, French, Russian and Hungarian. Wikipedia
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