Crazy Rich Asians and La Bella Vita (November 20, 2020)
Photograph by Raen Badua
Kevin Kwan was born in Singapore as the youngest of three boys into an established Chinese Singaporean family. His great-grandfather, Oh Sian Guan, was a founding director of Singapore’s oldest bank, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. He later immigrated to the US and became a prolific author, including Crazy Rich Asians, the international bestselling novel that has been translated into more than 40 languages. For several weeks in 2018, the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy commanded the top three positions of the New York Times bestseller list – an almost unprecedented single-author trifecta, and the film adaptation became Hollywood’s highest grossing romantic comedy in over a decade. Kevin’s latest novel, Sex & Vanity, was published in June 2020 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. In 2018, Kevin was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.