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name: Tim Hannigan
about: Tim Hannigan was born in Penzance in Cornwall in the far west of the United Kingdom and specialises in writing about Indonesia and South Asia. He has contributed features and images to various newspapers and magazines in Asia, the Middle East, North America and the UK.Before becoming a full-time writer Tim worked as a chef and an English teacher. His first book, Murder in the Hindu Kush (The History Press, 2011), was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. His second book, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java (Monsoon Books, 2012), won the 2013 John Brooks Award. He also wrote A Brief History of Indonesia (Tuttle, 2015), and edited and wrote new chapters for Willard Hanna's classic narrative history of Bali, now republished as A Brie Tim Hannigan was born in Penzance in Cornwall in the far west of the United Kingdom and specialises in writing about Indonesia and South Asia. He has contributed features and images to various newspapers and magazines in Asia, the Middle East, North America and the UK.Before becoming a full-time writer Tim worked as a chef and an English teacher. His first book, Murder in the Hindu Kush (The History Press, 2011), was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. His second book, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java (Monsoon Books, 2012), won the 2013 John Brooks Award. He also wrote A Brief History of Indonesia (Tuttle, 2015), and edited and wrote new chapters for Willard Hanna's classic narrative history of Bali, now republished as A Brief History of Bali (Tuttle, 2016). He has worked on guidebooks to many destinations including Nepal, India, Myanmar, Bali and Cornwall. His latest book, published in 2021, is The Travel Writing Tribe. ...more