Vulnerability and Voice in Fiction, or how writing can change us, and maybe the world too with Farzana Doctor
The 2026 Margaret Laurence Lecture
About Farzana Doctor
Farzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author, activist and psychotherapist. She’s written four critically acclaimed novels: Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement, All Inclusive, and Seven, a poetry collection, You Still Look The Same and a self- and community care workbook for helpers and activists, 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life. In September 2024, The Beauty of Us, her first YA book was released.
In 2023, Farzana received the prestigious Freedom To Read Award. In 2020, Seven was chosen as an Amnesty International Book Club’s Reader’s Choice Pick and was shortlisted for the Trillium, Evergreen awards. Six Metres of Pavement won the Lambda and Writers’ Trust Dayne Oglivie prizes and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award in 2012.
Community Speaker Series
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