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Tash Aw



Tash Aw is a former graduate of UEA. The Harmony Silk Factory is his first novel and was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 2005 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel 2005, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His second novel was 'Map of the Invisible World'. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London.
 

Awards: Whitbread (2005)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
February 2025

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The South
 
Novels
   The Harmony Silk Factory (2005)
   Map of the Invisible World (2009)
   Five Star Billionaire (2013)
   We, The Survivors (2019)
   Strangers on a Pier (2021)
   The South (2025)
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Anthologies edited
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
2005 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel : The Harmony Silk Factory

Award nominations
2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : We, The Survivors
2013 Booker Prize (longlist) : Five Star Billionaire
2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (nominee) : The Harmony Silk Factory
2005 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Harmony Silk Factory


Tash Aw recommends
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Our Evenings (2024)
Alan Hollinghurst
"Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality, and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren't aware of it - the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the end."
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Day (2023)
Michael Cunningham
"Few writers capture the crazy contradictions of modern life with as much clarity and wisdom as Michael Cunningham. Day glows beauty and energy; its characters slip off the page and into your life."
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Wandering Souls (2023)
Cecile Pin
"Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined, Wandering Soul is a deeply affecting debut, a restless inquiry into the nature of loss, kinship and survival."

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