Heather O'Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. When We Lost Our Heads was a #1 national bestseller and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Her works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and CBC's Canada Reads, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Capital of Dreams, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC's Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- Valentine in Montreal (2025)
- S07E01 (2025)
- The Capital of Dreams (2024)
- When We Lost Our Heads (2022)
- Invaluable Lessons from My Father (2018)
- At Home In the World<br> with Mary Walsh <br>and Heather O’Neill (2017)
- The Time to Make It Shorter <br>with Mark Anthony Jarman, <br>Steven Hayward, Heather O'Neill <br>and Guy Vanderhaeghe (2015)
- Stronger Than You Seem<br> with Heather O’Neill, <br>Christine Fischer Guy <br>and Monia Mazigh (2014)