About
Take a trip to France without leaving Victoria College! Step into the shadowy streets and sunlit villages with some of the biggest names in French crime writing as they explore how culture and literary tradition have shaped the genre and their predictions for what is to come in the future.
Moderated by Roland Gulliver
Event takes place outdoors at Victoria University.
Hannelore Cayre is an award-winning French novelist, screenwriter, and director, and a practicing criminal lawyer. Her works include Legal Aid, Masterpieces, and Like It Is in the Movies.
Born in Marseille, Johana Gustawsson's Roy & Castells series – Block 46, Keeper and Blood Song – won the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards and is published in 26 countries. The Bleeding was a No. 1 bestseller in France and Yule Island won Book of the Year with France’s biggest retailer, Cultura. Scars of Silence won the prestigious Maison de la Press Award in 2025, and the same year Johana teamed up with Norwegian crime-writer Thomas Enger, to write the international bestselling mystery, SON.
Sophie Hénaff cut her teeth in a café-theatre before opening a card and board games bar, then launching into the press (Cosmopolitan France). Today she devotes herself to writing.
Writer and screenwriter, ex-lieutenant in the Paris banlieues, Olivier Norek is the author of seven widely acclaimed international best-selling novels. They have sold 3 million copies in France alone, won over twenty prestigious literary prizes and been translated in more than 20 languages.
Dates & Times
This event has ended.
Sat, June 6, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pmA book signing will follow this event
Passes
This is a FREE EVENT
Venue
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
73 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto ON