Tan Hwee Hwee (also known as Hwee Hwee Tan), had her first book, Foreign Bodies, published by Michael Joseph (a Penguin imprint) in 1997. Her second novel, Mammon Inc., a cutting satire of our times, was released in July 2001. She has won numerous awards, including a New York Times Fellowship for Fiction for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University.

• Essays : In Search of the Lotus Land

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