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About the Author
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 publications include What the Rainforest Tells You, the essay collection The Tumultuous Hills and Jungles, the story collections Wild Pathways and Delicious Hunger, and the novel A Rear View of the Rainforest. He now lives in Singapore.
About the Translator
Sim Wai Chew obtained his BA from the University of East Anglia and his PhD from the University of Warwick. His Chinese to English translation of Singapore author Chia Joo Ming’s novel, Exile or Pursuit (commended with the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize), was published in 2019. He was translator in residence (virtual) at the National Centre for Writing (UK) in 2023. He works in higher education and has research interests in comparative literature and postcolonial literature.
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