Suria Tei

Suria Tei is an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, was listed

for Man Asian Literary Prize and Best Scottish Fiction, and won Malaysia’s Readers’ Choice

Award. Her second book, The Mouse Deer Kingdom, came third in the Readers’ Choice

Award. Night Swimmer, the film she wrote the script for, won Best Short Film at Vendome

International Film Festival. Her memoir, Unspoken: Living with Mental Illness, was published in 2018. Born and raised in Malaysia, Tei came to Scotland to study in the

1990s and now lives in Glasgow.