the 2018/19 Judith Ginsberg Fellow at the Institute of Ideas & Imagination in Paris. Works Novels The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) Map of the Invisible World (2009) Five Star Billionaire (2013) We, The Survivors (2019) Short Stories "Notes from a Desert Sketchbook", Off the Edge, Issue 07 (2005) - Off the Edge was a Malaysian English-language magazine, now defunct "The American Brick Problem", Prospect, Issue 122 (May 2006) "To The City", Granta, 100 (Winter 2007) "Sail", A Public Space, Issue 13 (Summer 2011) - won the 2013 O. Henry Prize; republished in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, Laura Furman (ed.) "Tian Huaiyi", McSweeney's 42 (December 2012) "Tiger" (January 2013) Nonfiction The Face: Strangers On A Pier (2016) Essays "Look East, Look To The Future", Granta.com, 25 May 2012 "My Hero, Rudy Hartono", The Guardian, 9 August 2013 "You Need To Look Away: Visions of Contemporary Malaysia", The Weeklings, 4 April 2014 "Heart and Soul in Every Stitch", Granta.com, 16 April 2014 "A Stranger at the Family Table", NewYorker.com, 11 February 2016 "Bridge to Nowhere", The Fabulist, Issue 16 "Burgess and the Malay Novels", Burgess at 100, Episode 2 "Living and Writing as a Divided Southeast-Asian: On Privilege, Unfairness, and Wanting More From Life", Literary Hub, 10 September 2019 Collected Op-Ed Articles from The New York Times, nytimes.com, 2014- As editor X-24: Unclassified (2007) (co-editor with Nii Parkes) References External links Official website The Guardian, interview 2019 We, the Survivors, The Guardian, 2019, review by John Burnside We, the Survivors, Times Literary Supplement, 2019, review by Francesca Wade The first chapter of The Harmony Silk Factory in PDF file Biography from the international literature festival berlin Cover Story: Tash for Cash in TheEdgeDaily.com Whitbread Book Awards The man behind the author, an interview on a Malaysian website 2013 interview in The New York Times Staying true to his beliefs Electric Lit, interview with YZ Chin, 2019 The Believer Magazine, in conversation with Chia-Chia Lin, 2019 1971 births Living people Malaysian novelists Malaysian writers Malaysian male writers Costa Book Award winners Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Warwick Alumni of the University of East Anglia English people of Chinese descent Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysian emigrants to the United Kingdom People from Kuala Lumpur Writers from Taipei Writers from London 21st-century Malaysian people 21st-century novelists 21st-century male writers