Do you ever know him? Do you familiar with his writing? He was known as Tash Aw or his full name is Aw Ta Shi. He is a Malaysian writer that living in London. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in Malaysia. His parents are Malaysian Chinese. 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 in year 2005 in the evenings and at weekends. He than left his job as a lawyer in 2002 to work on the novel full time. It was finished a year later,nearly five years after Aw 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 Invisble World, set in post independence Malaysia and Indonesia, will be pubished in May 2009.
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