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Ian Williams

Ontario

IAN WILLIAMS is the author of 7 acclaimed books of fiction, poetry & nonfiction. In 2024 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures with What I Mean to Say. His book Disorientation was selected as the best book of the year by the Boston Globe. His debut, Reproduction, won the Giller Prize. He's a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize & professor of English & director of the Creative Writing program at University of Toronto.

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