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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of four books, including 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 four books, including 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

Books by Madeleine Thien

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

    Madeleine Thien

    Hardback, 2016

    Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
    Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize


    "A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" —The Guardian
  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

    Madeleine Thien

    E Book, 2016

    Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award
    Finalist for the Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

    "A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes...