Johanna Skibsrud
Photo by Dan Davis Photography
Johanna Skibsrud is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author ofThe Sentimentalistsas well as the novelQuartet for the End of Time, and the short story collectionsTiger, TigerandThis Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. She is also the author of three poetry collections, includingThe Description of the World, which won the 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award. Originally from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, she currently divides her time between Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Tucson, Arizona.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- Make Tomorrow (2019)
- Living History:<br>In the Shadow of War<br>with Margaret Sweatman,<br>Johanna Skibsrud<br>and Frances Itani (2014)
- Hell Is Other People <br>with Johanna Skibsrud,<br> Helen Oyeyemi <br>and Miriam Toews (2011)
- Before the Beginning <br>and After the End <br>with Madeleine Thien,<br> Hisham Matar <br>and Johanna Skibsrud