Which Malaysian novelist, born in Taiping, authored 'The Harmony Silk Factory' (2005), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize?

• A Tash Aw ✓
• B Tan Twan Eng
• C Preeta Samarasan
• D Rani Manicka

Tash Aw's debut novel 'The Harmony Silk Factory' was set in the Kinta Valley of Perak and was translated into 23 languages, making him one of the most prominent Malaysian writers in English.