Award-winning American author Maggie Nelson challenges our concept of freedom in her thoughtful new work of criticism, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture and the plain exchanges of daily life, Nelson thoughtfully examines how the conditions of our day affect […]
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Two of the world’s most buzzworthy writers come together to discuss their first books to be translated into English, with interviewer Martha Batiz. Eva Baltasar, the #1 Catalan bestseller, introduces us to a bold lesbian narrator in Permafrost (translated to English by Julia Sanches), whose need for change sparks a journey across western Europe, dotted […]
Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Esi Edugyan presents her latest book, inspired by her 2021 CBC Massey Lectures, Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future. Join one of the most celebrated authors of the past decade to explore challenging new perspectives, as Edugyan analyzes the relationship between race and art. This live, moving […]
The thrilling stories of British author Ann Cleeves have the world rivetted. A recipient of the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers’ Association (the highest honour in British crime writing), Clevees’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages, and adapted into many popular crime dramas for television, including; Shetland, The Long Call and […]
Do you like hats? Do you like rocks? Then this is the event for you. The wonderful, Jon Klassen – New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal-winner – brings us his latest deadpan gem, The Rock From The Sky. Join him to hear – and see – this latest book which is an exploration of […]
The Black Box session returns with a live-streaming of the Humber School for Writers Love & Defiance podcast. Author, filmmaker and Humber School for Writers Director, David Bezmozgis, will speak with Naomi Yano, a Humber student who has lived an extraordinary life and turned that experience into art. Does one need to live boldly and […]
Delve into the poetic worlds of Tenille K. Campbell and Molly Cross-Blanchard with an exploration of their new poetry collections. Campbell’s nedi nezu (Good Medicine), her second published collection, chronicles failed romances, decolonized desire, and growth with her trademark dry humour. Cross-Blanchard’s Exhibitionist exudes life, with awkward moments, brutal honesty and powerful imagery. Both these […]
As part of The New Embassy series, this event will be available to watch from Thursday, July 7 to Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Be transported to the titular Bohemian Embassy, Toronto’s most famed countercultural artistic hub of the 1960s. Two-time national poetry slam champion Jennifer Alicia Murrin has curated this unique performance, inspired by the […]
It’s time to take a stroll through the city with author Darren Lebeuf and illustrator Ashley Barron, as they share their new picture book My City Speaks. You’ll meet a delightful young girl, who is visually impaired, and find much to celebrate with her as she guides you through the city she loves. You’ll discover […]
How many times can we start over before losing ourselves? Join us for an illuminating conversation on family lost and found amidst the turmoil of cultural warfare. Governor General Award-winning author Kim Thúy will present her virtuosic novel Em. Taking inspiration from historical events, Thúy sifts through layers of pain and trauma, revealing transcendent moments of grace. Set in Saigon, an abandoned baby is rescued by […]
Join Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and New York-based author and screenwriter Ben Philippe for an insightful conversation about the universal need to find connection with homeland heritages and inclusion in all spaces– particularly white ones. Al-Solaylee’s latest book, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From, draws on dozens of interviews with people who long to return to their homelands, and sets the narrative […]
Join us for an evocative conversation with Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Bernice Halfe (Sky Dancer), who will present two poetry collections: Blue Marrow and The Crooked Good. More than 20 years since its first publication, the critically acclaimed Blue Marrow collection has been beautifully redesigned, remaining a poignant tribute to the indomitable power of Indigenous women of the past and present. The Crooked Good guides the reader on a three-fold journey where […]
Sit down with Val McDermid, Scotland’s Queen of Crime, to learn about her newest series, 1979. The Scottish, multi-award-winning author who brought to life the bestselling exploits of Tony Hill, Carol Jordan and Karen Pirie, will introduce her latest heroine, investigative journalist Allie Burns. McDermid’s first new series in nearly 20 years, 1979 chronicles an […]
Join two widely acclaimed and award-winning Canadian writers for a captivating look at two sweeping novels charting the histories of families and friends, and the ways in which the past will always return to ask forgotten or hidden questions. Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Linden MacIntyre will present The Winter Wives, a thrilling new psychological drama weaving threads of crime, disability and dementia together into a […]
Longing for travel? Take a virtual journey around the world with memoirists Joanna Eleftheriou and Mia Kankimäki in discussion with Wendy O’Brien. The authors will share their real-life travel adventures from around the world, as told in their acclaimed new books. In This Way Back, Eleftheriou documents her search for identity through a life of […]
Hear from two of the most acclaimed and internationally awarded authors from the Nordic countries whose novels lift a veil on some of history’s dark secrets. Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen returns to TIFA to talk about the conflict of loneliness and human endurance, with White Shadow (translated to English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw), […]
Bestselling Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez previously won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner with The Sound of Things Falling, and was a Man Booker International finalist with The Shape of the Ruins. He now offers up nine morally complex short stories about men and women touched by violence in his new collection, Songs for […]
“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.” Join memoir authors Kerri Arsenault and Kazim Ali as they explore questions of land and power, the environmental impact of 20th century industrial practices, and remembering lost connections to the places we belong. Arsenault’s investigative memoir Mill Town is set in the rural town of Mexico, […]
The Toronto International Festival of Authors is delighted to co-present PEN Canada’s inaugural Graeme Gibson Talk, titled Hope in Strange Paradises: Dystopias and their Bright Spots. Award-winning authors Omar El Akkad and Margaret Atwood will be in conversation with CBC Radio IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed to discuss dystopias and storytelling. The event honours the legacy […]
Celebrate and explore some of today’s best Canadian children’s authors and illustrators! Eric Walter’s The King of Jam Sandwiches tells the heartfelt, harrowing story of thirteen-year-old Robbie. No one knows that Robbie’s dad isn’t like most parents. Sometimes he wakes Robbie up in the middle of the night to talk about dying. Sometimes he just […]
Celebrate and explore some of today’s best Canadian children’s authors and illustrators! Tune in with the whole family for a fun reading from the stunning picture book The Barnabus Project. In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom […]
Celebrate and explore some of today’s best Canadian children’s authors and illustrators! In David A. Robertson’s The Barren Grounds, Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel […]
Celebrate and explore some of today’s best Canadian children’s authors and illustrators! A little boy spends the weekend at his dad’s new apartment in this poignant, hopeful picture book about how things change when parents separate — and the important things that stay the same. Strikingly illustrated in Frank Viva’s signature style, author Naseem Hrab […]
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all faced immense amounts of anxiety, loneliness and grief, which has spurred many to re-evaluate their aspirations and redesign their daily lives. Now has become a prime time to collectively search for resilience and resolve to live more sustainable existences. With this in mind, TIFA Presents […]