Toronto's International Festival of Authors (IFOA), an 11-day festival of readings, interviews, lectures, and book signings, celebrated its 31st anniversary this October. According to a review by the
Guardian UK, this year's IFOA
was an unqualified success, showcasing the best of Canadian and International literature.
"The IFOA is both fiercely Canadian, aggressively international, and dedicated to
getting the best writers and editors together for a kind of rolling
symposium. Where else could you find David Mitchell, Claudio Magris and
Andrea Levy under one roof? And it's not just about big names, there's an interest in diversity, too. In the registration office at the Festival HQ there's the UK crime writer Peter James, a Dutch publisher Lidewijde Paris of Ailantus, a new imprint, and Alissa York, an up-and-coming Canadian novelist."
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