About Eddy Boudel Tan
Born 1983. Eddy Boudel Tan is a Canadian writer and novelist.
Eddy Boudel Tan is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia, whose 2020 debut novel After Elias was a finalist for the 2021 ReLit Award for Fiction.
Career Inspired by the Germanwings Flight 9525, After Elias centres on a gay man coping with the death of his husband-to-be in a plane crash just days before their wedding.
Boudel Tan was one of five writers named to the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual Rising Stars mentorship program in 2021. In July, he published his second novel, The Rebellious Tide.
His novel, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, was shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize.
Boudel Tan, openly gay, is the son of immigrants from Brunei.
2022
2025
Works After Elias (2020) The Rebellious Tide (2021) The Tiger and the Cosmonaut (2025)
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Eddy Boudel Tan was born in 1983.
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