Buy 3, pay for 2 — use code TRIPLEUS at checkout.
Madeleine Thien
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1974
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.
14
Titles
5
Featured books
5
Curiosities
About Madeleine Thien
Birth
1974
First book
2016
Years writing
10
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.
Madeleine Thien was born in 1974 in the city of Vancouver, Canada.
She is a renowned novelist and short story writer with a career spanning fourteen published works.
Her acclaimed novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing deeply explores the lives of musicians.
Thien's work is noted for addressing complex themes such as intergenerational relationships and social history.
Her writing is characterized by a rich narrative that connects fiction with social customs and daily life.
