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Madeliene Thien

Madeliene Thien’s first book, Simple Recipes, a collection of stories, won four awards in Canada and was a finalist for the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.  

Her novel, Certainty, set in the aftermath of the Second World War in British North Borneo, was a finalist for the Kiriyama Book Prize. I t has been published around the world and translated into more than a dozen languages.

 


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