# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tan-twan-eng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:45:35.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tan-twan-eng"
name: "Tan Twan Eng"
slug: "tan-twan-eng"
description: "Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian novelist who writes in English. He published his first novel, The Gift of Rain, in 2007. He is best known for his 2012 book The Garden of Evening Mists which won the Man Asian Literary Prize and Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, making Tan the first Malaysian to be recognised by all three awards."
tagline: "Malaysian writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.913004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tan.twan.eng/"
    handle:    "tan.twan.eng"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/100039461632338"
    handle:    "100039461632338"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tantwaneng.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%9C%98%E8%8B%B1"
    title: "陳團英"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "تان توان انج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%9C%98%E8%8B%B1"
    title: "陳團英"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Twan_Eng"
    title: "Tan Twan Eng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Тан Тван Энг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "陳團英"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7662663"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump