Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist whose work explores art, expression and politics in Cambodia and China, and within East Asian diaspora communities. Her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She also wrote Book of Records, a contemporary literary novel.