2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Anosh Irani

ANOSH IRANI is a three-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and a two-time winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. His novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Quill and Quire, and the National Post. His latest play, Behind the Moon (2023), was a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. Anosh is an assistant professor at the UBC School of Creative Writing.