Elizabeth Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of tremendous powers of understanding and sympathizing with real people and human situations. Her books are full of empathy and wry humour which has made her one of Canada’s beloved literary icons.

Her first novel, A Student of Weather, was a finalist for the Giller Prize, which she won in 2007 for her novel Late Nights on Air. She has twice been a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award. She was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and won another of the Writer’s Trust prizes – the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for non-fiction in 2018 for her latest book All Things Consoled.

A repeat visitor to the Readers’ Festival, Elizabeth Hay is a favourite.