The whole of Portugal in one book. The most cherished Portuguese writers and a photographer specialising in heritage. The same horizon for fiction and reality, in which literary creativity and photographic richness immerse themselves in our geography. This is a journey that covers county after county, island after island, writer after writer.
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Maria João Lopo de Carvalho graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was a teacher of Portuguese and English, created the first school of English for young children, and worked as a copywriter in advertising. She also worked in the Education and Culture departments of the Lisbon City Council. […]
From the #1 bestselling and award-winning author of Indians on Vacation, a witty and wry novel set in a small Ontario town where all is seemingly ordinary except for one thing—aliens have landed on the moon In Thomas King’s new novel, the citizens of a small Ontario town face life-changing decisions. Bria’s grandmother asks her to […]
Sheung-King’s debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked, is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail. His second novel, Batshit […]
Serhii Plokhy is a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. Author of Chernobyl Roulette, he is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Richard Armitage is a multi-award winning stage and screen actor best known for his role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Captain America, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Oceans 8. In 2022, he starred in Netflix’s Stay Close and prior to this, The Stranger, also on Netflix. Richard voices Trevor Belmont in the Netflix series Castlevania […]
Michel Nieva (1988) is an Argentinian writer based in NYC, where he teaches Writing at NYU. A Granta‘s Best Spanish Young Novelists 2021 and also a 2022 O’Henry Prize Winner, Nieva has written short stories, collections of essays, and now, with Dengue Boy, his first novel.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of essays and short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. He received the Village Voice Obie Award for his debut play Invasion! and Sweden’s highest literary honor, the August Prize, for his novel Everything I Don’t […]
Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of the novels City on Fire and The Second Coming, the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists. He recently edited and introduced The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant.
Brian Stewart is one of Canada’s most prominent television journalists, acclaimed for his foreign coverage on CBC’s The National and The Journal. Born in Montréal and beginning as a newspaper reporter, he later became a foreign correspondent for CBC in London and NBC in Frankfurt. Stewart has reported from ten war zones, hosted the CBC […]
Bo-Young Kim won the inaugural Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Award with her first published novella in 2004 and has gone on to win the annual South Korean SF Novel Award three times. She served as a consultant to Parasite director Bong Joon Ho’s earlier sci-fi film Snowpiercer. She has novellas forthcoming from HarperCollins […]
Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Loca is his debut novel.
Ian Williams is the author of seven acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He delivered the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say, on rehabilitating conversations. His previous book, Disorientation, was selected as a best book of the year by the Boston Globe. Williams’s debut novel, Reproduction, won the Giller Prize. His poetry collection, Word Problems, won the […]
From the international bestselling author of Bullet Train, two inventive espionage tales in one “Isaka’s style is tense, laden with dark humor expressed with a flat affect—just the right tone for a book that walks the fine line between comedy and violence.” —New York Times Book Review on Hotel Lucky Seven Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. […]
The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it? With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Artificially Intelligent answers today’s most pressing questions about AI – from the fundamental to the futuristic – offering […]
David Eliot is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, where he researches the social and political effects of artificial intelligence. He is a member of the Critical Surveillance Studies Lab, and his work on AI has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation PhD Scholarship.
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 […]
With a personal introduction from Margaret Atwood The seismic political changes in the United States of America have presented the world, including Canada, with existential issues that threaten our shared understanding of what a good, free and just society should be—and have left many struggling to know how to respond. The 2025 PEN Canada Graeme […]
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 an evening of readings and conversation on how storytelling can preserve memory, humanize identity, and expand the imaginative possibilities of Palestinian existence beyond […]
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 […]
