Madeleine Thien, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Madeleine Thien

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 25-May-1974

Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Profession: writer, author, novelist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Madeleine Thien (traditional Chinese: ???; simplified Chinese: ???; 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 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.