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Toronto International Festival of Authors
The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) inspires, empowers and connects through the art of stories, offering book lovers a breadth of bold, ambitious and accessible literary experiences. As Canada’s largest literary festival, the charitable organization provides engaging opportunities to meet, hear and learn from the world’s best contemporary writers and thinkers, and to celebrate the power of stories. Since 1974, TIFA has presented thousands of authors, including 22 Nobel Laureates, who represent diverse perspectives and a range of literary genres for all ages. TIFA’s creative programmes continue to adapt to changing times, capturing the most innovative and enlightening forms of storytelling, on stage and online. Based at Harbourfront Centre, TIFA delivers a year-round
programme of events and activities that reflect Toronto to its residents, its literature to the nation, and its creative ambition to the world. The inaugural MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival will take place June 3–5, 2022; and the 43rd edition of TIFA’s flagship festival will take place September 22 – October 2, 2022.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is Canada’s longest-running literary festival, a charitable cultural organization. We present the finest Canadian and international writers, artists and thinkers across the range of literary genres from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to plays, graphic novelists and illustrators. We enable audiences access and empowerment to meet, hear and learn from the finest contemporary writers and thinkers of our time.