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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Minelle Mahtani

MINELLE MAHTANI is an author, former radio host and professor. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, May it Have a Happy Ending (with Penguin Random House). She is the Chair of Canadian Studies at UBC and has won two national magazine awards for her creative non fiction work. She is from Toronto and is of mixed Indian-Iranian descent.

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