Gay-Inclusive Garden of Evening Mists Wins Walter Scott Prize

Having lost the Man Booker to Hilary Mantel last year, Tan Twan Eng has now triumphed over her, as well as former Booker winners Pat Barker and Thomas Keneally, to take the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction his gay-inclusive second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists [Kindle]. In March it won the Man Booker Asia Prize, beating Nobel winner Orhan Pamuk.

Elliott Mackle chose it as one of his favorites for Thebes queer lit poll saying, "The male/male elements in Tan Twan Eng’s lyrical The Garden of Evening Mists, set during and after World War II in Malaya, are comparatively minor but crucial and heart-breaking."

The complete shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize:

• Toby's Room by Pat Barker
• The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Streets by Anthony Quinn
• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
• Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain

 

 

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[Elliott Mackle]

Yes!