Epic Intimacies: Tash Aw & Will Harris
Presented with ESEA Lit Fest, novelist Tash Aw and poet Will Harris speak with Helena Lee about family, the masculine and fragmentation.
Tash Aw’s latest novel, The South, is an epic about longing, inheritance and the land; a love story that blooms between two boys one unforgettable summer. He is the author of five novels, including We, the Survivors and a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, Strangers on a Pier. He is the winner of the Whitbread and Commonwealth Prizes, an O. Henry Award and twice longlisted for the Man Booker.
Will Harris is the author of RENDANG and Brother Poem. He helps facilitate the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. Siblings (2024), a conversation with Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, and Nisha Ramayya, was published by Monitor Books. He has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Helena Lee (Harper’s Bazaar’s Features and Special Projects Director) founded the platform and salon East Side Voices in 2020 to raise the visibility of those of East and South East Asian heritage in Britain. The eponymous book was named a New Statesman and Esquire book of the year in 2022.
Supported by Paper Literary, ESEA Lit Fest is a joyful, thought-provoking celebration of East and South East Asian literature and culture that’s open to all. It was launched in 2023 to sell-out success by Maria Garbutt-Lucero and Joanna Lee, co-founders of the ESEA Publishing Network, in partnership with Foyles.
Presented in association with ESEA Lit Fest, and supported by Paper Literary.
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