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About Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien (traditional Chinese: 鄧敏靈; simplified Chinese: 邓敏灵; pinyin: Dèng Mǐnlíng; b. 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. 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.

Madeleine Thien writes about Social life and customs, Musicians, Intergenerational relations, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, historical, and Fiction. Their best-known work is Do not say we have nothing.

On FindMyTBR we track 3 books by Madeleine Thien, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Dogs at the Perimeter, and The Book of Records. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.