Madeleine Thien

Novelist, Short Fiction Writer & Essayist

Madeleine Thien is the author of four books of fiction, most recently Do Not Say We Have Nothing. She has received Canada’s two highest literary honours, the Giller Prize and the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and her books have been shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Women’s Prize for Fiction, and The Folio Prize, longlisted for a Carnegie Medal, and translated into more than 25 languages. Her essays and stories can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, Brick, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She teaches writing and literature at the City University of New York.