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Madeleine Thien

(1974) Novelist Canada

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Madeleine Thien is a novelist from Canada, best known for Do not say we have nothing.

Quick Facts About Madeleine Thien

Born
May 25, 1974
Nationality
Canada
Profession
Novelist
Notable works
Do not say we have nothing

About Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Amazon.ca First Novel Award Guggenheim Fellowship Giller Prize Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Kiriyama Prize Governor General's Award for English-language fiction City of Vancouver Book Award Ovid Prize

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