Madeleine
Thien
Madeleine Thien is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut story collection, Simple Recipes, was a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and won the BC Book Prize for Fiction. Her novel Dogs at the Perimeter was shortlisted for Berlin’s International Literature Prize and won the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Liberaturpreis. Her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won the Giller Prize, a Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, and an Edward Stanford Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and The Folio Prize. Thien’s novels and stories have been translated into 25 languages and her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. She lives in Montreal.
