About Fan Hai Books
Hai Fan is the pen name of Ang Tiam Huat, a Singaporean writer who entered the rainforest in 1976 as a soldier of the Malayan Communist Party and spent the next thirteen years carrying out guerrilla warfare near the Malaysia-Thai border. His first English debut is Delicious Hunger, translated by Jeremy Tiang. He now lives in Singapore.Jeremy Tiang has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building (Open Letter), which was long listed for the International Booker Prize, and Yan Ge's Strange Beasts of China (Penguin). He also writes and translates plays. His novel State of Emergency (World Editions) won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. He teaches literary translation at Columbia University, and has been translator-in-residence at Princeton and the University of Iowa. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens.
