Education
Tan studied law at the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in one of Kuala Lumpur"s law firms before becoming a full-time writer
Tan studied law at the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in one of Kuala Lumpur"s law firms before becoming a full-time writer
He has a first-dan ranking in aikido and lives in Cape Town. lieutenant is set in Penang before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World World War World War II The Gift of Rain has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czechoslovakian, Serbian, French and Hungarian. His second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, was published in 2012.
Tan has spoken at literary festivals, including the Singapore Writers Festival, the Ubud Writers" Festival in Bali, the Asia Manitoba Booker Festival in Hong Kong, the Shanghai International Literary Festival, the Perth Writers Festival, the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia, and the Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa.