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St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series continue Nov. 5 with author Madeleine Thein

Posted 11/2/18

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series will continue with a reading by author Madeleine Thein at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, in Sykes Common Room. The event is free and open to the …

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St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series continue Nov. 5 with author Madeleine Thein

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series will continue with a reading by author Madeleine Thein at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, in Sykes Common Room.

The event is free and open to the public.

Thien was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants to Canada.

She is the author of the story collection "Simple Recipes" and three novels, including "Certainty."

Her book "Dogs at the Perimeter" was set in the long aftermath of the Cambodian civil war and genocide. It was shortlisted for Berlin’s International Literature Prize and winner of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s LiBeraturpreis.

"So Not Say We Have Nothing" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Folio Prize, and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, along with the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction. The novel was named a The New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2016 and long-listed for the British literary award, Carnegie Medal.

Thein’s work has been published and translated into 25 languages and has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian Book, Brick, The Sunday Times, frieze and Granta.

Thein is a currently a professor of English at Brooklyn College in New York City.

The Writer Series is sponsored by St. Lawrence University’s Department of English and directed by Professor Natalia Singer.

For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.