Madeleine Thien is a writer born in Vancouver and the daughter of Malaysian Chinese immigrants to Canada. She is the author of a story collection and four novels, most recently The Book of Records, which was named a book of the year by Time, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New York Public Library, featured on Obama’s list of favourite books of 2025, and longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her 2016 novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won a Governor-General’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize. In 2024, she received the Writers Trust of Canada Engel-Findley Award in recognition of work to date and in anticipation of future contributions. Her novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages, and her essays and stories can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Since 2018, she has taught in the MFA Program at Brooklyn College at The City University of New York. She lives in Montreal.
