An Evening with Tan Twan Eng
Join us for an evening with award winning writer, Tan Twan Eng, as he discusses his new novel, The House of Doors.
Registration closes: 28 July 2023, Friday, 5 PM SGT.
Registrations may close earlier if all slots have been taken up.
Summary
Course code: TTE
A reading, conversation and question and answer session with Tan Twan Eng.
This is a ticketed event. Please register to secure your seat.
For all readers & lovers of literature
For all readers, & Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced Writers, Students & Educators – especially fiction writers
Dates
30 July 2023, Sunday
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm SGT
Venue
In-person
Chamber
The Arts House
1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
Overview
Join us for an evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Tan Twan Eng.
Tan Twan Eng will be discussing his new book, The House of Doors, with Professor Shirley Chew. There will be time for questions from the audience too.
There will be book sales and a book signing after the event outside the Chamber.
This event is presented by the Asia Creative Writing Programme with the support of the National Arts Council, the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University and Pansing.
Photo credit: Tommi Chu
Who should register?
The session is open to the public so anyone can attend although fiction readers and writers will benefit the most from the session.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
There are no course pre-requisites for this session.
Course Fees
- $5 per attendee to secure your seat
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 Professor 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.