Marc de Faoite

Read my latest contribution to Mekong Review  here

I'm flattered to get a mention by Paul French in Crime Reads "This sense of tropical malaise suffuses the fiction in the local published anthology KL Noir (2013). There are exploited migrant workers, angry ghosts, political corruption and the spiritual emptiness of rampant consumerism in air-conditioned mega-malls. Stand out writers include Marc de Faoite, who is also the author of Tropical Madness (2016), an anthology of short stories a number of which are set in the back street underbellies of KL." Read the full article here Follow Crime Reads here Follow Paul French here

I'm flattered to be mentioned in Dipika Mukherjee's article about Malaysian English Writing featured in World Literature Today  

I have a jackfruit tree in my garden. I wrote about it for the May-July 2019 edition of  Mekong Review . 

Since learning that Malaysian writer Shih-Li Kow’s collection of short stories – Ripple and Other Stories - was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize, coming ahead of collections by prestigious authors like Ali Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro among others, I’ve been meaning to get around to reading her work. In the mean time she wrote her first novel, The Sum of Our Follies, which has been translated into French (by a blind man) and Italian, and also won the French 2018 Prix du Premier Roman étranger. Last November I met the writer herself in person at the George Town Literary Festival and I had to confess that to my shame that beyond a single short story published in a collection of Malaysian writing I still hadn’t read any of her work. This obviously needed to be remedied, so I bought both of her books at Gerakbudaya’s new bookshop in Hikayat on George Town’s Beach Street. I started by reading her most recent work, The Sum of Our Follies. I was not disappointed....

I read Pick Three so that you don't have to. https://www.star2.com/culture/2018/12/13/randi-zuckerberg-pick-three-book-review/

Signed copies of Tropical Madness are now available at Gerkabudaya Bookshop at Hikayat in George Town, Penang, or online from their website .