![]() ![]() I know it’s been a very busy year for you. ![]() In the citation by the Governor General’s award jury, the novel is described as “an elegant, nuanced and perfectly realized novel that, fugue-like, presents the lives of individuals, collectives and generations caught in the complexities of history.”ĭavid Chariandy: Congratulations on these latest honours, Madeleine. Most recently, Do Not Say We Have Nothing won two of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards: the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel has been praised by critics throughout the English speaking world, and it has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her most recent novel is Do Not Say We Have Nothing, a sweeping story of generations caught up in the legacy of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protest. Madeleine Thien is the internationally renowned author of four books of fiction, including the short story collection Simple Recipes, and the novels Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter. ![]()
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