A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives
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A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
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Recent Episodes
April 22, 2026
Martha Gellhorn: The Face of War
Martha Gellhorn, one of the twentieth century's most fearless war correspondents, delivers a searing indictment of militarism, the global arms trade, and the myth of the "good war" in this archival recording from the Toronto International Festival of Authors, captured in October 1992.
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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reads some of his best-known poems in a 1990 performance in front of a Toronto crowd as part of the Harbourfront Reading Series (now called Toronto International Festival of Authors).
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