Tash Aw Biography
Tash Aw was born in Taipei to Malaysian-Chinese parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpar. He moved to England at 18 to attend university, where he studied Law at Cambridge and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
He first began work on The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) in the evenings and at weekends until, in 2002, he left his job as a lawyer to work on the novel full time. It was finished a year later, nearly five years after he began the book.
The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, as well as being long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Tash Aw is now a full time writer. His second novel Map of the Invisible World, set in post independence Malaysia and Indonesia, was published in the UK and Canada in May 2009 and in the USA in January 2010.
This biography was last updated on 11/11/2009.
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