Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under age 30 in recognition of her first book, Simple Recipes, a collection of short stories, which also received the City of Vancouver Book Award, the VanCity Book Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel, Certainty, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Ovid Festival Prize and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is Dogs at the Perimeter.