# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madeleine-thien
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:57:57.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madeleine-thien"
name: "Madeleine Thien"
slug: "madeleine-thien"
description: "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."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madeleine_thiene.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.81
  momentum:             0.4540023894862605
  historical:           16.463
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump