Chris Pavone’s thrillers include The Expats, winner of both the Edgar and Anthony awards, Two Nights in Lisbon, and most recently The Doorman. His novels have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal; have won both the Edgar and Anthony awards; are in development for […]
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Ann Y. K. Choi, originally from Chung-Ju, South Korea, is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. In 2017, Choi was honoured by the Korean Canadian Heritage Awards committee and awarded with the Culture Award for promoting Korean heritage within Canada. Choi currently serves […]
Martha Bátiz is an award-winning writer, translator, and professor of creative writing and Spanish language and literature. She is the author of five books, including the story collections No Stars in the Sky and Plaza Requiem (winner of an International Latino Book Award), as well as the novella Boca de lobo/Damiana’s Reprieve (winner of the Casa de […]
Thomas King is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of […]
Brian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve, near Vernon, British Columbia. After completing grade eight, he found work in the Alberta oil fields and in construction, eventually retiring as a bricklayer. He came to writing late in life. In 2022, his bestselling debut, All the Quiet Places, won an Indigenous […]
katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Michif (Red River Métis) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2013, her first book, North End Love Songs (Muses’ Company) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Since then, her work has garnered awards and critical accolades across genres. Her […]
Linden MacIntyre is a journalist and bestselling author whose work has earned Canada’s most prestigious literary and broadcasting honours. A former co-host of the fifth estate, he is the winner of ten Gemini Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man. His books include the memoir Causeway, the non-fiction The Wake, […]
Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and her work has appeared […]
Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Her novel Room has sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder […]
Craig Davidson is the author of Rust and Bone, adapted into a Golden Globe–nominated film, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated novel Cataract City. His works also include The Saturday Night Ghost Club, finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the bestselling memoir Precious Cargo, a Canada Reads finalist. Under the pen name Nick […]
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris […]
