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Madeleine Thien

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Canadian writer

CanadaWritersBorn 1974 · age 52
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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...

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2026Guggenheim Fellowship
2016Giller Prize
2016Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
2010Ovid Prize
2007Amazon.ca First Novel Award
2002Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
2001City of Vancouver Book Award
2001Kiriyama Prize

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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.

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Canada
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
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Born 1974 · age 52
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17 languages

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