Madeleine Thien
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.
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- Born in
- Vancouver
- Educated at
- Simon Fraser UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
- Awards
- 🏆 Amazon.ca First Novel Award🏆 Giller Prize🏆 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize🏆 Kiriyama Prize🏆 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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1974
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