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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’

Madeleine Thien
‘I love Bohumil Hrabal as one loves a friend’ … Madeleine Thien. Photograph: PR

My earliest reading memory
Resting in my father’s arms as he read the newspaper. I must have been three or four years old. He read the paper cover to cover, and for an hour or so each night, I watched the world go by.

My favourite book growing up
When I was 11 I would go to the library downtown and request microfilm of old newspapers. I clicked the spools into place and read and read. I was horrified and baffled and amazed that there existed so many decades, so much time, in which I was … nowhere and not yet.

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