Love reading? Join the club! Enjoy the company of fellow readers by becoming a part of TIFA’s Official Book Club. We’re thrilled to announce the return of two virtual seasons in 2025, featuring thoughtfully curated reading lists and engaging conversations. The Winter and Fall seasons each include five meeting sessions that spotlight a specific contemporary […]
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From Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former Attorney General of Canada and the #1 national bestselling author of ‘Indian’ in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, comes a truly unique history of our land—powerful, devastating, remarkable—as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. In a thought-provoking and timely conversation, alongside co-author Roshan Danesh, they will […]
From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see. Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, […]
Join Amy Stuart on October 8, 2024, at 7pm for a conversation about her new book, A Death at the Party. Stuart takes the premise of Mrs. Dalloway and turns it into a fast-paced psychological thriller. While one hundred guests mingle at her party, the main character Nadine finds herself looking over a dead body […]
Ages 11–13 Calling all aspiring writers, authors and book lovers! Campers will explore the wonderful world of literature in partnership with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Campers will learn how to develop a well-rounded structure, characters, setting and plot. Campers will be encouraged to express an artistic point of view and push their […]
Ash Knight was born in Montreal, Quebec and started working at a young age as an actor. He moved to London, England at the age of 20 to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He graduated with a R.A.D.A. Diploma and a Bachelor’s Degree in Acting from the University of London. Ash was nominated […]
Darla Contois is an Indigenous writer and actress from Misipawistik Cree Nation, Grand Rapids, Manitoba, Canada. She stars as Esther Rosenblum/Bezhig Little Bird in the Canadian drama television series Little Bird. Her solo show White Man’s Indian premiered at Summerworks 2017 in Toronto where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award. Her most recent work, […]
Hiro Kanagawa is a Vancouver-based actor and writer. His full-length plays The Tiger of Malaya and The Patron Saint of Stanley Park have been performed across Canada as have many of his shorter works. He received the 2017 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Drama for his play, Indian Arm. Also a script consultant, he was story […]
Suvendrini Lena is a mother, daughter, sister, aunt and decolonization enthusiast, living in T’karonto. She is also a playwright and staff neurologist at Women’s College Hospital. She teaches/learns Neurology and Medicine and Humanities at the University of Toronto (Tkaronto). Her plays include The Enchanted Loom, on the Sri Lankan civil war (Cahoots/Factory Theatre), Here are […]
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong—for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell. Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan. But Nadine—devoted […]
Bronwyn Haslam is a Montreal-based translator. Her translations have appeared in Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader, Asymptote, Aufgabe and The Capilano Review, among others. She holds a master’s degree in literature from the Université de Montréal and undergraduate degrees from the University of Calgary. With Aleshia Jensen, she co-translated Mirion Malle’s This Is How I […]
Tracy Hurren is a senior editor at Drawn & Quarterly and works with Adrian Tomine, Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, and many more of the world’s best cartoonists. She’s worked for the Montreal house for over ten years. She has an MPub from Simon Fraser University.
Judith Weisz Woodsworth is a translator and former university professor. She has published widely on translation history and theory, including Translators through History, with Jean Delisle. Her recent publications include the monograph Telling the Story of Translation: Writers Who Translate (2017), the edited volumes The Fictions of Translation (2018) and Translation and the Global City: Bridges and Gateways (2021), and Hutchison Street […]
Pierre Anctil is an award-winning author, a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2012 and a professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa, where he taught contemporary Canadian history and Canadian Jewish history. He has written at length on the history of Montreal’s Jewish community and on the current debates on cultural pluralism […]
Susan Ouriou is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator from French and Spanish with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation and been short-listed for that same award on five other occasions. A number of her […]
Leigh Nash is the publisher at House of Anansi Press. Previously she was the publisher at Invisible Publishing, taught book publishing at York University, worked at Coach House Books, was a founding partner of editorial firm Re:word Communications and co-founder of chapbook press The Emergency Response Unit. She earned an MFA in creative writing from […]
Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English translator and former bookseller. Her literary translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for translation; Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall; and graphic novels by Julie Delporte, Mirion Malle, Pascal Girard, and Camille Jourdy. Jensen’s own writing has appeared in […]
In 2007, Elders of the Algonquin Nation invited former journalist and news anchor Marie-Josée Tardif to become a Sacred Pipe Carrier, an honour that would entail a lifelong commitment to the study of Anishinaabe Traditional Medicine and culture. In addition to sitting on several international committees, Grandmother Marie-Josée is the co-founder of the Dominique Rankin […]
After a successful career in politics and serving as Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation, Chief Dominique Rankin turned his focus to his role as a spiritual leader, devoting his efforts to teaching, healing, and promoting the cultural legacies of Indigenous Peoples. He is the recipient of many prestigious honours, but to many, he is […]
Laura Condlln is known for Othello (2020), Murdoch Mysteries (2008) and The Lake (2022).
Carol Lemen is a Caseworker, City of Toronto.
