Join international authors Sibylle Grimbert and Michel Nieva in conversation as they approach our contemporary climate crisis through fictional lenses of the past and the future. Award-winning French novelist, Grimbert’s The Last of Its Kind is translated into English for the first time and tells the story of a young geologist in 19th century Iceland […]
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Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean author, translator and playwright who will be discussing his fiction, non-fiction, and the role translation places in his creative life. His history as a translator- he has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world – comes into play in his upcoming book Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future […]
Cho Nam-Joo is a South-Korean author whose novel, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, has been a runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, is the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. This has been followed by novels and short stories including Miss Kim Knows […]
Curated by Qissa, this panel brings together three newcomer and refugee writers for a candid discussion about the challenges and pressures of creating literature in a new cultural context. The conversation explores how their work evolves when removed from its original setting, how audience expectations and industry pressures impact what they write, and how labels […]
Join one of Canada’s best and most beloved authors, Thomas King, creator of the Thumps Dreadful Water series, writer non-fiction like Indians on Vacation. In this special event, he discusses his new book Aliens on the Moon: A Novel. The bestselling author takes realism and turns it on its head it when an extraterrestrial presence […]
Dive into a conversation with Tracey Lindberg and katherena vermette as they discuss they discuss their respective works. katherena vermette’s procession is a gripping collection of poems use 80s childhood imagery and different generational voices to question the reason for existence. She challenges what it means to be a descendant and future ancestor simultaneously. Bestselling author […]
Award-winning debut authors Ryad Assani-Razaki (The Hand of Iman) and Jemimah Wei (The Original Daughter) come together for a powerful conversation on survival, ambition, and the bonds that shape us. Assani-Razaki’s haunting novel follows Iman and Toumani, two boys in an unnamed African country where dreaming is a luxury and survival demands courage — until […]
Translation is an art of carrying voices across borders. In this literary conversation, three accomplished translators, Ryad Assani-Razaki, Lin King, and Jeremy Tiang gather to discuss the challenges and rewards of their craft, capturing tone, rhythm, and cultural nuance while bringing new life to literature in another language. How do translators find balance between the […]
For many women in the afternoon of life, society (read, male society) is quick to dismiss them as invisible and irrelevant, when in fact the ‘le troisieme age’ offers a wealth of new opportunities to “live life fully as a woman on the road to the far side of mid-life”. Join two outstanding women who […]
See storytelling masters Guy Gavriel Kay and Susanna Kearsley for an event on their latest historical fiction novels – with a bit of magic. Kay, renowned for blending history and fantasy, shares Written on the Dark, a novel that explores the delicate space between myth and memory, the intimate and the epic. Kearsley presents The […]
Literature has the power to hold memory, give voice to identity, and imagine futures beyond imposed limits. This event brings together three acclaimed Palestinian writers—Ibtisam Azem, Saeed Teebi and Zeina Sleiman —for readings and conversation on how storytelling can preserve memory, humanize identity, and expand the imaginative possibilities of Palestinian existence beyond the confines of […]
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with authors Ibtisam Azem and Samrat Upadhyay. Azem presents The Book of Disappearance, a haunting novel that imagines the sudden vanishing of Palestinians from Israel, opening questions of memory, erasure, and identity. Her narrative blends the surreal with the political, inviting readers to confront histories of displacement. Alongside her, […]
Dive into two gripping and genre-defying works that span continents, time periods, and emotional landscapes. Jinwoo Park will present his propulsive new thriller, Oxford Soju Club, where espionage meets existential reckoning in the unlikely setting of Oxford’s only Korean restaurant. Translator Lin King presents the acclaimed novel, Taiwan Travelogue, a haunting and lyrical story set […]
Join authors André Alexis and Susan Choi as they discuss their latest works of fiction, two books that grapple with memory, family, and forces beyond characters’ control. Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs follows a group of dogs in a shelter, temporarily granted consciousness by the gods, and their divide over their new way […]
Internationally bestselling Japanese novelist Kōtarō Isaka (Bullet Train) makes his first North American appearance with his latest in the Assassins series Hotel Lucky Seven and suspenseful novel Seesaw Monster. Known for razor-sharp plotting and eccentric, unforgettable characters, Isaka blends satire and suspense to expose society’s hidden violence. The author continues his reinvention of the crime […]
From the New York Times and Toronto Star Bestselling author Alka Joshi in conversation about her latest historical novel, Six Days in Bombay, exploring identity, colorism and colonialism in 1937 India and Europe. At the heart of the novel is Sona, a young woman captivated by the artist Mira Novak, after their friendship blossoms over […]
Join us for an event with two powerful storytellers and stories that span generations. In her debut novel To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage explores family, belonging, and identity with luminous prose that reveals the ties binding us across generations. Brian Thomas Isaac presents Bones of a Giant, a haunting and resilient tale rooted […]
Two beloved stars of historical fiction bring their latest page-turning adventures to TIFA. From internationally bestselling author Alyson Richman comes The Missing Pages, a love story, a ghost story, and an elegy to the healing power of books. Violet Hutchins, a Harvard student is working as a page at the Harry Widener Library, when strange […]
From conflict and migration crises, to the rise of nationalist ideologies and political point-scoring, 2025 has seen the fundamental belief in universal human rights challenged and undermined. Built out of the destruction of World War II and the Holocaust, the human rights order has been a cornerstone of good, progressive society. The subject shaped the […]
A fiddler from the age of 9, Natalie MacMaster has proven to be an icon on the Canadian music scene, with many awards and nominations to her name. Join her for a conversation on her memoir I Have a Love Story, chronicling her journey from her childhood, to her career, to motherhood, and her reflections […]
Join two award-winning authors as they discuss their latest, highly anticipated novels about the trials and tribulations of two tumultuous relationships. In Eimear McBride‘s The City Changes Its Face, Stephen and Eily’s relationship began full of passion and excitement but after eighteen months, reality is setting in and they’re learning about whether their love is […]
Already tipped as one of the best books of 2025, Chris Pavone’s The Doorman is a pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder. This laser-sharp satire and literary thriller centers on New York’s Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. The action unfolds […]
What role can art and imagination play in resisting exclusion and erasure? In his piercing essay collection, Black Boys Like Me, Toronto teacher and writer Matthew R. Morris confronts what it means to be a young Black man in a school system built on narrow definitions of success. He traces a journey of how identity […]
Gertrude Stein’s salon at 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is the stuff of literary legend. A place that once entertained and fostered the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, but also where Stein herself forged her literary legacy with her partner Alice […]
