TASH AW was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. He is the author of the novels The Harmony Silk Factory, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Map of the Invisible World, Five Star Billionaire, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and We, the Survivors, as well as the memoir Strangers on a Pier. His work has been translated into twenty three languages.
