Eddy Boudel Tan is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia,Brett Josef Grubisic, "Review: Boudel Tan delivers a story that’s enticing and smile-inducing". Vancouver Sun, July 30, 2021. 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.
Awards Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 2021 After Elias Edmund White Award — ReLit Awards Fiction 2022 The Rebellious Tide Ferro-Grumley Award — 2025 The Tiger and the Cosmonaut Giller Prize — "$100K Giller Prize announces five-title shortlist for 2025". CBC Books, October 6, 2025.
Works After Elias (2020) The Rebellious Tide (2021) The Tiger and the Cosmonaut (2025)
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