Frances Itani
Photo by Maggie Knaus
Frances Itani has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep (2020)
- Past Imperfect <br>with Frances Itani, <br>Ed O'Loughlin <br>and Linda Spalding (2017)
- Book Launch:<br>That's My Baby <br>by Frances Itani (2017)
- National Gallery of Canada<br> Creative Writing Workshop<br> with Frances Itani (2015)
- Living History:<br>In the Shadow of War<br>with Margaret Sweatman,<br>Johanna Skibsrud<br>and Frances Itani (2014)
- An Ever-Present Past <br> with Frances Itani,<br>Carmen Rodriguez and <br> Anita Rau Badami (2011)