Welcome to Walrusmagazine.com’s coverage of the thirtieth annual International Festival of Authors.
IFOA XXX began last night with a PEN Canada fundraiser that featured a rare public appearance by Alice Munro, who shared the stage with fellow author Diana Athill. Over the next ten days, Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre (along with several venues outside the city) will host a wide range of literary luminaries, including internationally renowned writers like John Irving, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, and Colm Tóibín, and Walrus contributors including Lisa Moore, Mark Kingwell, and Hal Niedzviecki. The current crop of CanLit awards finalists is well represented: the festival includes readings by short-listed authors for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Scotiabank Giller Prize.
There are multiple Walrus-related events throughout the festival. For those who prefer politics to the NFL, The Walrus editor John Macfarlane interviews Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff this Sunday at 2pm. A week from tonight, October 29, is Walrus Night at IFOA, with multiple editors hosting events. On the final Saturday of the festival, October 31, The Walrus comics blogger Sean Rogers will be interviewing R.O. Blechman and Seth, the latter of whom Rogers recently profiled for the magazine. Later that day, managing editor Jared Bland will host “On Influencing and Being Influenced,” a panel discussion with Debra Adelaide, William Deverell, Robert Girardi, and Nikos Papandreou.
Watch this space throughout IFOA XXX for reports on particular events, author interviews, and the latest news. And follow The Walrus on Twitter for breaking updates and chances to win event tickets.
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