Guests of HeadRead 2017: Tan Twan Eng

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Tan Twan Eng wins 2013 Walter Scott Prize Pictured here in the Gardens Harmony House The Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists. He travelled from his home in South Africa to be at the ceremony, and was awarded his prize by the Duke of Buccleuch at a special event at the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland, on Friday 14th June. 16th June 2013 Photograph by Lloyd Smith/Writer Pictures WORLD RIGHTS

The festival is happy to announce that the lineup of next year’s festival will include the Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng, best known for his acclaimed novel The Garden of Evening Mists.

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