Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a renowned Canadian novelist and short story writer of the Chinese heritage. She is known for writing young adult, literary fiction, contemporary, coming of age, historical fiction, cultural, adult fiction, and women fiction stories. Thien’s work has been considered by Canadian Literature’s Oxford Handbook as reflecting Canadian literature’s trans-cultural nature and exploring expression, politics, and art inside China and Cambodia, along with other Asian communities. A critically acclaimed book penned by author Thien is known as Do Not Say We Have Nothing. It won the Governor General’s Award in 2016 in the category of English language fiction. The book also won other prestigious awards such as the Edward Stanford Award and Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2017, and the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize in 2017.