Madeleine Thien | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
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| Notable works | Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
| Partner | Rawi Hage |
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Madeleine Thien (traditional Chinese: 鄧敏靈; simplified Chinese: 邓敏灵; born 1974) 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.[1][2] 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.
- ^ Sugars, Cynthia (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. New York: University of Oxford Press. pp. 71, 574, 892.
- ^ Kröller, Eva-Marie (2017-06-08). The Cambridge companion to Canadian literature. Kröller, Eva-Marie (Second ed.). Cambridge. ISBN 9781107159624. OCLC 971615629.
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