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“I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton, 2025) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. For more from Thien, read “Hopeless Hope: A Conversation With Madeleine Thien” by Renée H. Shea.
In this virtual reading hosted by Poets & Writers’ Bonnie Rose Marcus, the winners of the 2021 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from the state of Rhode Island, fiction writer Courtney Denelle and poet Jodie Noel Vinson, read from their work and are introduced by judges of the award Madeleine Thien and Prageeta Sharma.
“I was interested in the transmission of artistic practice—art, music, ideology, politics—from West to East and back again, and how that gets reflected in the creation of art.” Madeleine Thien talks about the premise and themes of her third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books, 2016), which is longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
