Tash Aw is a Malaysian writer born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, who grew up in Kuala Lumpur before relocating to England. His debut novel The Harmony Silk Factory, published in 2005, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Subsequent novels include Map of the Invisible World, published in 2009, Five Star Billionaire, published in 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and We, The Survivors, published in 2019 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent novel, The South, was longlisted for both the 2025 Booker Prize and the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has also held visiting professorships at Columbia University and fellowships in Paris and Berlin, and his novels have been translated into 23 languages. Aw studied law at Cambridge and Warwick before completing an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
Tash Aw adalah penulis asal Malaysia yang lahir di Taipei dan dibesarkan di Kuala Lumpur sebelum menetap di Inggris. Novel debutnya, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005), meraih Whitbread First Novel Award dan Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, serta masuk daftar panjang Man Booker Prize. Sejak itu, ia menerbitkan sejumlah novel yang mendapat pengakuan internasional, termasuk Map of the Invisible World, Five Star Billionaire, dan We, The Survivors. Novel terbarunya, The South, masuk daftar panjang Booker Prize dan National Book Critics Circle Award 2025. Karya-karya Tash Aw telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 23 bahasa. Selain menulis, ia juga pernah mengajar dan menjadi peneliti tamu di berbagai institusi internasional. Ia menempuh pendidikan hukum di Inggris sebelum meraih gelar magister penulisan kreatif dari University of East Anglia.
