Following her retirement, Yun Ling decided to return to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya. The Garden of Evening Mists mapped the story of Yun Ling Teoh, a recently retired judge of the Supreme Court she was just the second woman to be appointed to the Malaysian Supreme Court.

Tan’s sophomore novel commenced in contemporary Kuala Lumpur. The Garden of Evening Mists has, without a doubt, established Tan as a globally recognized wordsmith. The novel was also recently adapted into a film. The novel also won him the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for best historical fiction, edging a maven of historical fiction, Hilary Mantel, a reversal of the 2012 Booker Prize which was won by Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies. The following year, he bested no less than Nobel Laureate in Literature Orhan Pamuk to become the first Malaysian recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize. It was a literary sensation, even making it to the shortlist of the prestigious Booker Prize in 2012. Published in 2012, The Garden of Evening Mists, like its predecessor, was heartily received by the reading public and literary critics alike. Riding the wave of momentum he gained after the publication of The Gift of Rain, Tan worked on his sophomore novel. More success will ensue following the success of his debut novel. The book was even longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize in Fiction in 2007. It was warmly received by both the general public and the literary pundits. In 2007, The Gift of Rain was finally published. It was while taking up a master’s degree in shipping law at the Univesity of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, that he started working on his debut novel his longing for his country led him to pick up the pen and started writing. After completing his degree in law at the University of London in the United Kingdom, Tan returned to Malaysia and worked as an intellectual property lawyer for one of the country’s leading law firms. However, it was not writing that was his original occupation. He grew up in both Penang and the country’s capital Kuala Lumpur. Tan was born in Penang, an island off the northwestern coast of Malaysia. Among contemporary Malaysian writers, Tan Twan Eng is certainly one of the most accomplished.

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