A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against […]
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Philippe Sands is professor of law at the University of London, the Samuel Pisar Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of East West Street. He is a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC World Service, and a litigator before international courts. He is the former president of English PEN. In 2003, […]
Ashraf Zaghal is a Palestinian Canadian author who was born and raised in Jerusalem. He has published four poetry collections, and his work has been translated into English, French, and Hebrew. He is an editor of an online magazine focused on progressive literature and translation. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University […]
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and the translator of over thirty books from Chinese. He was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency and for his translation of Zhang Yueran’s Cocoon, and he won an Obie for his play Salesman之死. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.
WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE A special edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of André Alexis’s modern masterpiece, with a foreword by Eileen Myles and an afterword by André Alexis. — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I’ll […]
Joseph Kertes escaped from Hungary with his family as a child during the Hungarian Revolution. He founded Humber Polytechnic’s creative writing and comedy programs, where he served as Dean of Creative and Performing Arts for many years and received numerous awards for teaching and innovation. His novels, among them Winter Tulips, Gratitude, and Last Impressions, […]
Omer Aziz is a writer, lawyer, and former foreign policy advisor. He is the author of Brown Boy and Shadows of the Republic. He has held residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo and was most recently a Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York, and the New York […]
Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels The Librarianist (an instant #1 national bestseller and winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour), French Exit (an international bestseller and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), The Sisters Brothers (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust […]
Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and Canada Reads (2024). It won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Mutonji was a recipient of the […]
Mona Høvring is an award-winning Norwegian author of eight poetry collections and five novels. She has been nominated for and won various prestigious awards, including the Unified Language Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Two of her novels have been translated into English by Kari Dickson: Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the […]
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion. A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar, which had its international premiere at Cannes. She was […]
Randy Boyagoda is a novelist who writes about books and ideas for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. He is a professor of English and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. To learn more, visit www.randyboyagoda.com
Nyla Matuk was born in Winnipeg and lives in Montreal. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry: Sumptuary Laws, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, and Stranger. She is also the editor of an anthology of poems, Resisting Canada.
André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. He is the author of A Quincunx, comprised of five novels: Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Days by Moonlight, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Pastoral; The Hidden Keys; and Ring. His […]
