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The Visit

A reprint of Clarissa Tan's first, award-winning Spectator piece

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM


Clarissa Tan, who wrote articles and TV reviews for The Spectator, has died of cancer aged 42. She came to London from Singapore after winning this magazine’s Shiva Naipaul prize for travel writing and over the next seven years wrote about a great many things: Asia, race and the East; also smartphones, Sienna and socks.

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