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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including The Book of Records, named one of Obama’s Best Books of 2025 and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including The Book of Records, named one of Obama’s Best Books of 2025 and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.

Awards

Winner — Giller Prize, 2016

Longlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025

Longlisted — Climate Fiction Prize, 2026

Books by Madeleine Thien