Madeleine Thien is an author. She is a first-generation Canadian, and her writing often focuses on art and politics inside Cambodia and China, which are her parents' native countries, as well as within diasporic Asian communities. Thien's first book, the short story collection "Simple Recipes," was published in 2001. Her first novel, "The Chinese Violin," was published in the same year. She is best known for her 2016 novel, "Do Not Say We Have Nothing," which won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize.