Frances Itani

Frances Itani is a fiction writer, poet and essayist. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has won the CBC Short Story Prize twice. Itani's bestselling novel ***Tell*** was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada. She won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best book in 2004 for ***Deafening***, which was translated into 17 languages, shortlisted for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was recently optioned for a TV miniseries. The novel was a contender for Canada Reads 2006. She is also the author of the bestselling book ***Remembering the Bones***, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, ***Requiem***, chosen by the Washington Post as a top fiction title of 2012, and an illustrated children's book entitled ***Best Friend Trouble***. ()