Malaysia, Guest Professorships, 2025
Tash
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Tash Aw published five books between 2005 and 2025, most recently The South (HarperCollins, 2025), which made it straight onto the longlist for THE BOOKER PRIZE, as well as a non-fiction book entitled Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family (HarperCollins, 2021). He has been awarded the Whitbread and Commonwealth prizes for best debut novel and has been longlisted twice for the MAN Booker Prize, among many other awards. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement, and his writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the seminal Granta 100 issue. His works have been translated into 25 languages. He was born in Taipei in 1971 to Malaysian parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tash Aw lives in Paris and Kuala Lumpur.
Tash Aw is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2024. In the winter semester of 2025/26, he held the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship.
