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Tan Swie Hian
5 booksA cultural icon, Tan Swie Hian has authored 66 titles of various genres, held 26 one-man art exhibitions worldwide and won 30 national and international accolades, including The Meritorious Service Medal, The Cultural Medallion (Singapore), Gold Medal of Salon des Artistes Français, Member-Correspondent of l’Institut de France, Officier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (France), Gold Medal of Korea-Japan World Cup International Calligraphy Exhibition (Korea), Marin Sorescu International Poetry Prize (Romania), First Honorary Citizen of Huangling County where the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum is located (China), and The World Economic Forum Crystal Award (Switzerland). Tan Swie Hian is currently the top-grossing living artist in Southeast Asia.
The polyglot writes mainly in Chinese, while fully committed, as an accomplished translator who has translated works by such literary luminaries as T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Henri Michaux, Eugène Guillevic, Jacques Prévert, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rumi, Chairil Anwar, Marin Sorescu and others, to rendering what he believes to be the best works from world civilisations to enrich the Singapore repository of literature as a young nation. Of the nine-volume Selected Writings of Tan Swie Hian the translator edited and published in 2006, three volumes are selections of his translated works.
An experienced Zen meditator for well over five decades, Tan Swie Hian’s literature is deeply rooted in the secular pathos and his arts in the sacred bliss, the two halves of the same sphere facing towards the nondual wisdom of the full moon.
The polyglot writes mainly in Chinese, while fully committed, as an accomplished translator who has translated works by such literary luminaries as T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Henri Michaux, Eugène Guillevic, Jacques Prévert, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rumi, Chairil Anwar, Marin Sorescu and others, to rendering what he believes to be the best works from world civilisations to enrich the Singapore repository of literature as a young nation. Of the nine-volume Selected Writings of Tan Swie Hian the translator edited and published in 2006, three volumes are selections of his translated works.
An experienced Zen meditator for well over five decades, Tan Swie Hian’s literature is deeply rooted in the secular pathos and his arts in the sacred bliss, the two halves of the same sphere facing towards the nondual wisdom of the full moon.
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