As a result of the debacle, Thien asked that her name be removed from all of UBC’s promotional materials. Steven Galloway, the professor, was accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Thien also objected to the way the University of British Columbia handled complaints against a professor in the Creative Writing program. She wrote about the program’s abrupt closure and Hong Kong’s crackdown on freedom of speech for The Guardian.
Her books have been translated into 25 languages.įrom 2010 to 2015, Thien was part of the International Faculty in the MFA program in Creative Writing at City University. In 2017 she won the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her critically acclaimed novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won the 2016 Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing award for fiction. Since publishing Simple Recipes, Thien has gone on to have a distinguished career in writing. The collection received the praise of Nobel Prize Laureate Alice Munro, who said, “This is surely the debut of a splendid writer.” Family relationships are often at the center of her work as are the themes of home and trauma. The short stories in Simple Recipes explore the conflicts within both intergenerational and intercultural relationships.
In 1991 she was a finalist for the Writer’s Trust of Canada RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The book also garnered the Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Thien’s collection of short stories, Simple Recipes (2001, Little Brown & Company) was named a notable book by the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.
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