Tash Aw

Tash Aw , (歐 大 旭; actually: Aw Ta-Shi ) (* 1971 or 1973 ) is a Malaysian-born writer who currently resides in London . He became famous for his first work, " The Harmony Silk Factory" , published in 2005 in the English original, and in German with the title "Die Seidenmanufaktur zur Schöne Harmonie" . The novel is set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 1940s against the background of Malaysia's history, which was shaped by British colonial rule, Japanese occupation and communist guerrillas . In May 2009 he published his second work "Map of the Invisible World", the German edition with the title "Atlas of the invisible world" was published in September 2009 as a paperback. The overarching theme is the (revolutionary) currents resulting from the Dutch domination of Indonesia, which Tash Aw mediates through the development of complex personal relationships.

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Tash Aw was born to Malaysian parents in Taipei , the capital of Taiwan . At the age of two he moved back to Malaysia with his parents, where he grew up in the capital, Kuala Lumpur . As a teenager he moved to the UK, where he later studied law in Cambridge and Warwick . After graduating, he worked a. a. several years as a lawyer. During this time he began work on his debut, which he completed during a course in " creative writing " at the University of East Anglia . His novel has been translated into 20 languages ​​(including German) and has won several awards. According to newspaper reports in Malaysia, the work brought in £ 500,000 , but this has not been confirmed by the author himself. This would make him the most successful Malaysian writer in recent years in terms of fees, circulation and international distribution of the book.

Web links

• Photo of the author and review of his novel
• Interview on a Malaysian website
• engl. Text with background statements by the author about the main character of his first novel