Frances Itani

FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That's My Baby; Tell , shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem , chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones , published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening , which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories,...See more

FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That's My Baby; Tell , shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem , chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones , published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening , which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC's Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa. See less