Join us for an unforgettable evening of true stories told live as The Moth Mainstage returns to Toronto as part of the TIFA Presents 2025 season. This signature event brings together storytellers from Canada and around the world to share bold, funny, and heartfelt tales that celebrate the art and craft of storytelling. The Mainstage […]
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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Join us for the literary event of the year as Margaret Atwood launches her long-awaited memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts. Written with her signature wit and candour, Atwood recounts a life shaped by wild northern landscapes, literary invention, and political upheaval that inspired her most iconic works. […]
How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. “Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they […]
Join us for an afternoon with Ian McEwan, the Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement and Saturday as he presents his genre-bending new novel of love, legacy, and literary intrigue. In What We Can Know, Ian McEwan invites us into a world of shifting truths, moving from a candlelit dinner in 2014 where a mysterious poem […]
Join us for an unforgettable evening with R.F. Kuang, the New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Poppy War, Babel and Yellowface. Kuang returns with her highly anticipated novel, Katabasis, a dark academia fantasy where two rival graduate students must journey to Hell to rescue their professor’s soul— perhaps at the cost of their […]
Join Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis, as he presents his dazzling new story collection, Other Worlds. Alexis masterfully connects worlds — real, invented, and uncanny — in these captivating tales that span from 19th century Trinidad to contemporary Toronto. Blending philosophical inquiry with wry humour and drawing on multiple literary genres, these […]
Join internationally acclaimed historian, co-host of the Empire podcast and bestselling author William Dalrymple in Toronto as he presents The Golden Road, a sweeping history of South Asia’s profound influence on the world. From astronomy to architecture, mathematics to mythology, Dalrymple reveals how India’s civilization shaped ancient Eurasia — its ideas traveling from Angkor Wat […]
October 29–November 2, 2025 Victoria University in the University of Toronto Toronto’s favourite festival returns at a new venue with a new format and five exciting days of celebrations for story lovers! Expect readings, conversations, book signings and masterclasses featuring authors from Canada and around the world. Highlights include Writer’s Craft events, featuring workshops and […]
June 27–29, 2025 Victoria University in the University of Toronto MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival is back for another exciting weekend, this time TIFA will be roaming the mysterious halls of Victoria University on the University of Toronto’s campus! With cosy crime, police procedural, psychological thriller and true crime taking the stage, the Festival will […]
November 21–22, 2025 Love Stories for Those Who Love Stories Get ready to fall head over heels at TIFA’s newest festival, where love is definitely in the air! This new annual celebration is a page-turning event for romance fans, bringing together authors and readers for a weekend full of heartfelt panels, book signings and writing […]
Join us for one of the biggest publishing events of 2025 and the Canadian launch of Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, marking her return to full-length fiction after more than a decade. The internationally celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah – an Oprah Book Club […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
