Madeleine Thien’s first work of fiction, Simple Recipes, a collection of stories published when she was twenty-six, won four awards in Canada,was a finalist of a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and was named a notable book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Certainty is her first novel.
Originally from Vancouver, Madeleine Thien currently lives in Quebec City with her husband,Willem.