2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Mona Awad

Quebec

MONA AWAD is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

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