Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist born in Vancouver in 1974. Her work has been recognized by The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, with particular attention to themes of art, expression, and politics within Cambodia and China, as well as among diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing achieved significant recognition in the literary world. The book won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was also shortlisted for several prestigious awards, including the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Additionally, the novel received the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. Her work has achieved international reach, with her books translated into more than 25 languages.