Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien in 2007.
Born	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian

Madeleine Thien (born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under age 30. In 2008, she was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Thien's first book, Simple Recipes (2001), a collection of short stories, received the City of Vancouver Book Award, the VanCity Book Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel, Certainty (2006), has been published internationally and translated into 16 languages.^[1] It won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Ovid Festival Prize^[2] and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize^[3] for Fiction.

Her fourth book, a novel entitled Dogs at the Perimeter, was published by McClelland & Stewart in May, 2011 and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. The novel was subsequently published by Granta Books^[4] in 2012 and translated in 8 languages.

Thien is the Simon Fraser University Writer-in-Residence 2013-2014.^[5] The position is held for 8 months starting in October.^[6]

Bibliography

• Simple Recipes — 2001
• The Chinese Violin — 2002
• Certainty — 2006
• Dogs at the Perimeter - 2011

External links

• Speak, Memory - Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter (Interview)
• Author's website for Dogs at the Perimeter
• Ordinary Tragedies in Madeleine Thien's "A Map of the City"
• "Northwest Orient" in the New York Times
• "Passages through grief, hardship and betrayal" in the Boston Globe
• Faber & Faber: authors

References