Partners and Patrons

The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) gratefully acknowledges the support of the following organizations and individuals:

Global Authors Club

Gail and Mark Appel
The Marilyn and Charles Baillie Family Foundation
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation
The Bennett Family Foundation
The Honourable Nicole Eaton
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
The L’Heureux Family Foundation
Beth Nowers and Jack Curtin
The Ouellette Family Foundation
The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation
Nalini and Tim Stewart
The Mary Jane and Paul Torrie Foundation

TIFA Champion

Robert and Mary Pat Armstrong
Heather Conway
The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation
Henry White Kinnear Foundation
Shelagh and David Wilson Fund at Toronto Foundation

TIFA Patron +

Cindy and Shon Barnett
Cam di Prata and Alexandra Risen
Rupert Duchesne and Holly Coll-Black
Peter Goring
Louise MacCallum
Andrew and Valerie Pringle
Andrew Stewart
Richard Stursberg
Phyllis Yaffe

Patron

Semareh Al-Hillal
Marla Berger
Marah Braye
Shawn Brayman
Rebecca Brill-Argall
Patti Bunston Gunn
Butterfield Family Foundation
Lorie Cappe and Linda Lewis
Janet and Doug Davis
Shagorika Easwar and Easwar Gopalasamudram
Doone Estey
Deborah Gray
Jane Griesdorf
Zoe and Arnie Guha
Nancy and Richard Hamm
Gillian Howard
Jan Innes
Roz Ivey
Julie di Lorenzo
Gary Luftspring
Barbara and Dougal Macdonald
John Macfarlane
Michѐle Maheux
Robin Mirsky
Jane Monaghan
Hon. Bill Morneau and Nancy McCain
Jackie Nixon
Shelley and Hon. David Peterson
Lisa Philipps
Timothy and Frances Price
Ann Wilson and Rob Prichard
Suman Rahman
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
Bob Ramsay
Alexandra Ross and Brett Dunk
The Rotman Family
Lori Russell
Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan
Godyne Sibay
David Staines
Subak Family Foundation
Philip and Eli Taylor
Iris Tupholme
Janet Turnbull Irving
Bruce Westwood


We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations:

Major Partners

Canadian Heritage Canada Wordmark logo
Canada Council for the Arts logo
Government of Ontario logo
Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Creates Logo
Toronto Arts Council Logo
Harbourfront Centre Logo

Corporate Partners

HarperCollins Canada logo
Penguin Random House Canada
Simon and Schuster Canada Logo

Official Booksellers

Hotel Partner

Indigo Logo
Rakuten Kobo logo

Special Thanks

Aga Khan Museum Logo
Diaspora Dialogues logo
Children's Book Bank logo
CBC Logo
Humber Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Innovative Learning Logo
Humber School for Writers Logo
CBC Ideas logo with radio for the mind tagline
The Moth logo
OCAD University Logo
Ontario Science Centre logo
PEN Canada Logo
Writers Collective of Canada logo
Zebra Pen logo
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies logo

International Partners

Consulat général de France logo
Culture Ireland logo
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (EAFoL) logo
Goethe Institut logo
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto logo
Japan Foundation Logo
Scottish Books International
Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York LOGO
WOW Culture Lab logo

Lead philanthropic support is generously provided by the Global Authors Club: Gail and Mark Appel, The Marilyn and Charles Baillie Family Foundation, The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation, The Bennett Family Foundation, The Honourable Nicole Eaton, The L’Heureux Family Foundation, Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett, Beth Nowers and Jack Curtin, Nalini and Tim Stewart.


International Visitors (IV) Programme Committee

Carolyn Forde (Co-Chair), Jennifer Lambert (Co-Chair), Emily Ferko, Olga Filina, Maria Golikova, Roland Gulliver, Joe Lee, Hazel Millar and Jay MillAr.

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