Madeleine Thien

Quick Facts

Full Name	Madeleine Thien
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1974(1974-05-25)
Age	50
Birthplace	Vancouver
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Taurus

Madeleine Thien Biography

Madeleine Thien is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on May 25, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Thien was born in Vancouver in 1974 to a Hong Kong Chinese mother and a Malaysian Chinese dad. She received a Master’s degree from Simon Fraser University in Contemporary Dance and a Master’s in Fine Arts with specialized in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Thien decided to change from Dance to creative writing because she felt insufficiently talented despite her love for the art. Before becoming an editor at Rice Paper Magazine, Thien worked in various clerical, restaurant and retail jobs. Thien was a finalist in the Writers Trust of Canada’s RBCBronwen Wallace Award to Emerging Writers

1999. In 2001, she received the Emerging Writers Award by the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop for her short story collection Simple Recipes.

Thien’s debut novel, Certainty, is published by M&S in Toronto, New York, Little, Brown, 2007, and London, Faber, 2007. It follows a documentary producer who searches for the truth about her father’s experiences living in Japanese-occupied Malysia. The novel was published worldwide and has been translated into 16 languages.

Her second novel, Dogs at the Perimeter (Toronto: M&S, 2011; London: Granta Books, 2012), was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2014 International Literature Award – Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The novel won the 2015 de:LiBeraturpreis, awarded by the Frankfurt Book Fair and recognizing works of fiction from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Shortlisted authors for the 2015 Prize included Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shani Boianjiu, and NoViolet Bulawayo.

Her second novel, Dogs at the Perimeter (Toronto: M&S, 2011; London: Granta Books, 2012), is about associates at Montreal’s Brain Research Centre, and their traumatic ties to the Cambodian genocide. The novel has been translated into nine languages.

Certainty, her novel (Toronto, M&S, 2006, New York: Little, Brown, 2007, London: Faber, 2007), was nominated for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, Ovid Festival Prize, and the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction.

Madeleine Thien Net Worth

Madeleine Thien is one of the richest Author from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Madeleine Thien 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Thien’s first book, Simple Recipes, was published by M&S in Toronto, 2001. It is a collection of short stories. It won the City of Vancouver Book Award, VanCity Book Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Alice Munro, Nobel Prize laureate, praised it and wrote that it was “certainly the debut of an outstanding writer.” It is a marvel at the clarity and ease with which the writer writes, as well as an emotional purity.

Her first book, Simple Recipes, was published in 2001. This book contains short fiction pieces that explore conflicts in intergenerational and intercultural relationships. Thien also made Joe Chang’s 2001 National Film Board short film The Chinese Violin into a children’s book. The story is about a young Chinese girl and her father, a musician.

In 2008, Thien was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and the IWP State Department-funded 2010 study tour of the United States, which invited eight international writers, including Kei Miller, Eduardo Halfon, Billy Kahora and Khet Mar, to explore the unresolved legacies of American history. Her essay “The Grand Tour: In the Shadow of James Baldwin” concludes the 2015 essay collection, Fall and Rise, American Style: Eight International Writers Between Gettysburg and the Gulf. The study tour was the subject of filmmaker Sahar Sarshar’s documentary, Writing in Motion: A Nation Divided.

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Many of Thien’s works focus on the theme of time in connection to place and human emotion. In an interview with Granta from 2016, she states that she is thinking about “the way that women’s lives are expressed in literature at this moment,” and that she is interested in writing about women of colour and sexuality.

Facts & Trivia

Madeleine Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Madeleine Thien celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

Is Madeleine Thien Chinese?

Madeleine Thien, a Vancouver native, was born to parents who are Malaysian- Chinese immigrants. She graduated from the University of British Columbia’s prestigious MFA program in creative writing.

Where is Madeleine Thien from?

Vancouver, Canada

Do not say we have nothing Book of Records?

It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence , in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China’s relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to …

Do not say we have nothing Discussion Questions?

Marie is the keeper of the story. How effective is Thien in having Marie be the one to tell the story – not her father’s story but the story of those he loved? What parallels are there between the story she tells and those in The Book of Records? What is the purpose of the Book of Records?

What is the Book of Records China?

Records of the Grand Historian
“Shiji” in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese| 史記
Simplified Chinese| 史记
Literal meaning| “Scribal Records”