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The following individuals and organizations have shown their commitment to freedom of expression by supporting PEN Canada for our 2023 fiscal year. We applaud them for championing a world in which writers are free to write, readers are free to read, and freedom of expression prevails.

Last updated June 19,  2023.

 
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HONORARY PATRONS

Margaret Atwood

Gary Beelik

Louise Dennys

Sturla Gunnarsson

Rick Mercer 

Jim Ryce

John Ralston Saul

GOLD PATRONS ($5,000-$9,999)

Katherine Govier

Peter Grant and Grace Westcott

Yann Martel

Philip Slayton and Cynthia Wine

SILVER PATRONS ($2,500–$4,999)

Linwood and Neetha Sands Barclay

Scott Connell and Anouchka Freybe

Karen Ruddy

PATRONS ($1,000–$2,499)

Sara and Michael Angel

Scotia Bhattacharya

Randy and Anna Boyagoda 

The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson

Andrew Cohen

George Galt

Anne and Nicholas Giardini

Susan Greer and Robert Hough

Hank Intven and Lyndsay Green

Nancy Jamieson

Nina Josefowitz

Alisha Kaplan

Michael Kedar and Eva Seidner

David Kendall

Andrea Lenczner

Margaret MacMillan

Ruth Mandel

JoAnn Elizabeth McCaig

Scott McIntyre

Rohinton and Freny Mistry

Laurence Packer

Sarah Pape

John Ralston Saul

Marcus Reid

Richard Stursberg

Jean Teillet

Simon Wallace

SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS

BENEFACTOR ($50,000+)

Leslie Mary Coull Alter Ego Trust

PLATINUM ($25,000-$49,999) 

The RBC Emerging Artists Project

RBC Foundation

GOLD ($15,000-$24,999)

Ontario Arts Council

BRONZE ($1,000-$14,999) 

Balfour Bowen Family Foundation

Council for Canadian American Relations

Colleges Ontario & Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP

Emerald Foundation

Freybe Foundation

The Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Foundation

Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan Charitable Foundation

Howitt Dunbar Foundation 

Margaret Atwood Extra Pocket Foundation

Michael and Cathy MacMillan Family Foundation

Michael B. Decter Foundation at Toronto Foundation

Michael and Honor de Pencier Foundation

N.A. Taylor Foundation

Norman & Margaret Jewison Foundation 

Penguin Random House Canada Limited

The Rotman Family

Sierra Supply Chain Services

Stonefields Foundation

Wesbild Holdings Ltd

PROGRAMMING PARTNERS

Ageless International Film Festival

Atwater Poetry Project

Calgary Wordfest

CBC Radio’s Ideas

CBC Radio’s The Current

Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University

Citizen Lab

Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) Conference 2023

Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre

George Brown College

Global Reporting Centre, University of British Columbia

HotDocs

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Humber College School for Writers 

ICORN International Cities of Refuge Network

IFEX

Infoscape Research Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts 

International Issues Discussion Series, Toronto Metropolitan University

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly

Literary Umbrella of Quebec

PEN America

PEN International

PEN Myanmar

Quebec Writers’ Federation

Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

Romero House

The Shoe Project

Toronto International Festival of Authors

Toronto Jewish Film Festival

Toronto Public Library

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IN KIND

Authors at Harbourfront Centre

Babin Bessner Spry

CNW Group

Soapbox Design Communications

Literary Review of Canada

Kathy Koch

HONORARY MEMBERS

Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Said Abdelkader

Emanuel Asrat

Temesken Ghebreyesus

Mattewos Habteab

Dawit Habtemichael

Medhanie Haile

Dawit Isaak

Yusuf Mohamed Ali

Narges Mohammadi

José Armando Rodríguez Carreón

Seyoum Tsehaye

Fesshaye Yohanness

MEMBERS

A

Rajah al Sur

Patricia Aldana

Behrouz Aligholi Mayelzadeh

Marion Allan

Jason Anderson

Anneli Andre-Barrett

George Anthony

Rick Archbold

Bert Archer

Sally Armstrong

James Arnett

B

Richard Bachmann

Marsha Barber

Deborah Barndt

Gavin Barrett

Jim Bartley

Alison Bate

Paul Bennett

David Bezmozgis

Andrew Binks

Gwen Bird

Peter D. Birt

Ted Bishop

Neil Bissoondath

Robin Blackburn McBride

Becky Blake

Ronna Bloom

Stephanie Bolster

Michael Bookman

Ali Boreyri

Marian Botsford Fraser

Paulette Bourgeois

Jane Bow

Lynne Bowen

Kate Braid

Niyazi Braim

Mary J. Breen

Max Brem

Rebecca Brill-Argall

Mitchell Brown

Colin Browne

William Bruneau

Andrew Bryant

William Bryant

Mary Burns

C

Nicolas Calvé

Gillian Campbell

Anthony Carnovale

Claudia Casper

Jennifer Chapin

Delvin Chatterson

Pamela Clark

James Clarke

Mary Frances Coady

Kristin Cochrane

Valerie Connor

Paige Cooper

Margaret Cornish

Jack Costello, S.J.

Susan Coyne

Jim J. Creskey

Alan Cumyn

D

Marin Darmonkow

Farida Darvish

Jack David

Gwen Davies

Ryan Day

Michael Decter

Teri Degler

Ron Deibert

Onder Deligoz

Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie

Poonam Dhir

Marcello Di Cintio

Em Dial

JoAnn Dionne

Bronwyn Drainie

Naomi Duguid

Catherine Dunphy

Maggie Dwyer

E

Omar El Akkad

Taha Elkhalifa

Jacqueline & Peter Elton

Marina Endicott

F

Kim Fahner

Chris Faiers

Jane Fairburn

Marsha Faubert

Thelma Fayle

Rob Fennell

Leonard Findlay

Robert Finley

Christine Fischer Guy

Cynthia Flood

Kevin Flynn

Judy Fong Bates

Charles Foran

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Cadence Fournier

Keath Fraser

Josh Freed

Valerie French

G

Marie-Louise Gay

Paola Gomez

Ron Graham

Charlotte J. Gray

Melvyn Green

Chris Gudgeon

Jing Guo

Graeme Hamilton

H

Beth Haddon

Judith Hall

Graeme Hamilton

Don Hannah

Victor Harding

Dawn Harman

Merle Harris

Elizabeth Hay

Peter Hay

Kate Heartfield

Christopher Hedges

Dorris Heffron

Clara Henssen

Gary Heyde

Lawrence Hill

Chara Ho

Judy Holm

Carol Holmes

Lynn Horton

Louisa Howerow

Linda Huestis

Isabel Huggan

Graeme Hunter

I

Kevin Irie

John Irving

Frances Itani

Spencer Izen

J

Bassam Jamil

Catherine Jeffery

Maureen Jennings

Tianyang Jiang

Theresa Johnson

Elizabeth Johnston

K

Elizabeth Kaplan

Anna Ling Kaye

Janet Keeping

Richard Keith

Margo Kelly

Nancy Vernon Kelly

Michael Kennedy

David Kent

Elaine Kierans

Micah Killjoy

Camie Kim

Mark Kingwell

Josh Knelman

Brenda Koller

Sheila Koop

David Koulack

Diana Kuprel

Tanya Kyi

L

Marlene Lachcik

Andrew Lafleche

Anita M. Lahey

Bethany Lake

Bianca Lakoseljac

Fiona Tinwei Lam

Nancy Lam

Jennifer Lanthier

Cindy Lapeña

Eric M. Lax

Jason Leaver

Alexander Leggatt

Sylvia Legris

Dayna Leighton

Maria Claire Leng

Ezra Levant

Michael Levine

Amanda Lewis

Stewart Lewis

Gregory Light

Jane Lind

Dahlia Liwsze

Damian Lopes

Gloria Lorenzen

Lea Love

Ljerka Susanna Lukic

Derek Lundy

M

Christine Mauro

Christopher MacDonald

Wendy MacIntyre

Janet MacLean

Maria Maksymiw

Fareh Malik

Pasha Malla

Sara Mang

Nicole Mankinen

Diary Marif

Dina Marques

Émile Martel

Sandra Martin

Sid Marty

Michelle Mason

Nadya Masri

Abdulrahman Matar

Carol Matas

Colin McAdam

Bob McArthur

Richard McClelland

S.A.M. McCue

Hope McIntyre

Neil McKinnon

Mundy McLaughlin

Stephanie McLellan

Susan McMaster

George Melnyk

Almeda Miller

John Miller

Lawrence Mirkin

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Catherine Mitchell

Jack Mitchell

Salah El Mohssein

Rebecca Morris

Elise Moser

Ezat Mossallanejad

Omar Mouallem

Rashid Mughal

Cassandra Myers

N

Leilah Nadir

Lotfullah Najafizada

Marie Natanson

John Neal

O

Peter O’Brien

Jane O’ Hara

Sheila O’Reilly

Aila Omar

Katrina Onstad

Deborah Ostrovsky

Frances M. Owen

P

Frederick John Packer

Brian Panhuyzen

Jeungsoon Park

Kathleen Pattinson

Louise Penny

Susan Perly

Francesca Piredda

Carolyn Poirier

Anna Porter

Pamela Porter

Basia Puszkar

Q

Darlene Quaife

R

Monique Rabideau

Suman Rahman

Deepa Rajagopalan

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh

Peter C. Raymont

Philip Resnick

Pedro Restrepo

Kamel Riahi

Nino Ricci

David Rintoul

Diana Rivington

Siobhan Roberts

Brenda Roche

Ingrid Rose

Stuart Ross

Robert Rotenberg

Naben Ruthnum

Elizabeth Ryerson

Maria Helena Rykov

S

Maria Sabaye Moghaddam

Dr. Farshid Sadatsharifi

Hoda Karimi Sadr

Judie Sahadeo

Kerri Sakamoto

Mahdi Saremifar

Candace Savage

Denise Schon

Anneliese Schultz

Giorgia Severini

Mel Shakespeare

Peggy Shannon

Evelyn Sharpe

Gina Shochat-Rakoff

Peter Showler

Haroon Siddiqui

Antanas Sileika

Merilyn Simonds

Marvin Singer

James and Elaine Slater

Caitlin Smith

Adam Sol

Catherine St. Denis

Hugh Stephens

Sandra L. Stephenson

Kate Story

Susan Stromberg-Stein

Rosemary Sullivan

Mark Swartz

George Swede

Joanne Szilagyi

T

Barbara E. Tangney

Chris Tenove

Tasleem Thawar

Blossom Thom

Susan Thorne

Hung T. Ton

Ziya Tong

Caroline Topperman

Venus Torabi

Andrea Torrey Balsara

Kim Trainor

U

Lawrence Uhlin

Rui Umezawa

Peter Unwin

Pablo Urbanyi

V

John Vaillant

Jacqueline Valencia

Aritha van Herk

Comfort Verissimo

Mark Vessey

W

Eleanor Wachtel

Hazrat Wahriz

Jennifer Walcott

Bruce Walsh

Helen Walsh

David Waltner-Toews

Karen Walton

Katherine Ward

Janette Watt

Alan Whitehorn

Laurelyn Whitt

Janice Williamson

Patricia Windrim

Howard Wiseman

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Carolyn Wood

Dorothy Woodhouse

Donna Wootton

Y

Serhy Yekelchyk

Z

Chro Zand


DONORS

A

Jeff Abraham

Tom Adlhoch

William Aitken

Kathleen Alboim

Jane Anderson

Ken Anderson

Sylvia Andrews

Annick Press Ltd.

Caryl Arundel

B

Patricia Balfour

David Bancroft

Deborah Bartlett

Janice Bearg

Benevity Community Impact Fund

Steven Benstead

Rosalyn Black

Michael Brooks

Jacqueline Bryers

C

Canada Helps

Canadian Online Giving Foundation

CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation

The Concordian

Katherine Corrick

Geoffrey Creighton

Andrew Creskey

D

Michael Devine

Maureen Donnelly

Ian Duncombe

E

Nick Etheridge

Tawhida Tanya Evanson

F

Olga Feiguina

Elizabeth Ferguson

Flavelle Family Foundation

G

Gary Geddes

The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation

Gordon Gibson

Evelyn Gigantes

Geneviève Goggin

Susan Goldenberg

Taylor Gordon

Bill Graham

H

Lorna Harris

Sandra Heft

Tekla Hendrickson

Amy Hutchison

I

Sue Irwin

K

Lisa Kellett

Michael Klein

Walter Korinowsky

Myrna Kostash

L

La Maison Simons

M

Bruce MacLellan

Alexandra MacLennan

Pam Marshall

Sally Marshall

August Maurenbrecher

Jennifer Mauro

Helen McDonald

Norman McLeod

Sangeeta Mehta

Naomi Mori

Cosmin Munteanu

N

Margot Northey

P

Joanne Pitkin

Barbara J. Pulling

Q

Georgia Quartaro

Kathleen Quinn

R

Sabrina Radia-Bramwell

Susan Reisler

Paul Jeffrey Richardson

S

Pierre Sarrazin

Saskatchewan Festival Of Words

Sheridan Scott

Rachelle Sender

Jafar Shaker

Leslee Silverman

David Simmons

Keisha Simpson

Glenn Smith

Roman Solonysznyj

Flora Spencer

Stephanie Stavro

Neil Stephenson

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William Wallace

Lucy Waverman

Alison Wearing

Janice Weaver

Douglas Wilson

Randy Witten

Wendy Wright

Y

Lori Yarrow

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President

Grace Westcott

Vice President

Karen Walton

Secretary

Michael Bookman

Treasurer

Carolyn Poirier

Chair, Events

Anouchka Freybe

Chair, Fundraising

Anna Porter

Chair, Writers in Peril

Peter Showler

Chair, Indigenous Affairs

Jean Teillet

Chair, Communications

Karen Walton

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Marcello Di Cintio

Paola Gomez (until Jan 31, 2023)

Eluned Jones

Scott McIntyre

Ziya Tong

Bruce Walsh

PAST PRESIDENTS

Richard Stursberg

Randy Boyagoda

Philip Slayton

Charlie Foran

Ellen Seligman

Nelofer Pazira

Constance Rooke

Haroon Siddiqui

Reza Baraheni

Sandra Martin

Ann Ireland

Katherine Govier

Ron Graham

Nino Ricci

Marian Botsford Fraser

Alison Gordon

Louise Dennys

John Ralston Saul

June Callwood

Graeme Gibson

Timothy Findley

Margaret Atwood

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Richard Stursberg

Randy Boyagoda

Neil Bissoondath

Kristin Cochrane

Valerie Connor

Douglas Coupland

David Cronenberg

Ronald Deibert

Esi Edugyan

Omar El Akkad

Charlie Foran

Kevin Hanson

Mark Kingwell

Elana Rabinovitch

Devyani Saltzmann

Philip Slayton

Tanya Talaga

Michael Wernick

Ken Whyte

STAFF

Executive Director

Brendan de Caires

Office Manager

Theresa Johnson

VOLUNTEERS

Anneli Andre-Barrett

Mira Boyagoda

Marian Botsford Fraser

Paola Gomez

Maureen Brosnahan

Önder Deligoz

Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie

Hannah Fisher

Margo Kelly

Keith Leckie

Mary Jo Leddy

Joan Leishman

Caroline Newton

Maria Sabaye

Alyssa Sammut

Amir Yazdanbod

SPEAKERS

André Alexis

Margaret Atwood

Nahlah Ayed

Freweini Berhane

The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson

Ron Deibert

Önder Deligöz

Gezahegn M. Demissie

Louise Dennys 

Em Dial

Esi Edugyan

Omar El Akkad

Ari Gunnarsson 

Sturla Gunnarsson

Ava Homa 

John Irving

John Jonaid 

Keith Leckie

Fareh Malik

Yann Martel

Abdulrahman Matar

Ian McEwan

Deepa Mehta 

Rohinton Mistry

Luis Horacio Nájera 

Deepa Rajagopalan

Maria Ressa

Pedro Restrepo

Bilal Sarwary 

John Ralston Saul

Shyam Selvadurai

Isabella Wang

Grace Westcott

Amir Yazdanbod

Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk

Ric Young 

IN MEMORIAM

Reza Baraheni, PEN Canada president (2001-2003)

Clayton Ruby, past PEN Canada Chair of Legal Affairs

SPECIAL THANKS 

Mariam Al Zier

Theo Amory

Anneli Andre-Barrett

Lies Aris

Amber Bracken

Jess Atwood Gibson

Linwood Barclay

Gary Beelik

Dmitry Beniaminov

Dr. Carolyn Berbrayer

S. Bear Bergman 

David Bezmozgis

Biblioasis

Calgary Wordfest

Mary Campbell

Canada Helps

Claudia Casper

The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson

Irwin Cotler

Marcello di Cintio

Michael Decter

Peter Donolo

Kim Echlin

Omar El Akkad

Shams Erfan

Margie Espinosa

Kathy Findlayson

Anouchka Freybe

Matt Galloway

George Brown College

Paola Gomez

Anne Giardini

Lyndsay Green

John Healy

Susan Heximer, George Brown College

Hirut Ethiopian Jazz Club 

Hogg, Schain and Scheck

Ange Holmes

Siri Hustvedt

Loretta Ing

Hank Intven 

John Irving

El Jones

Joshua Knelman

Andrey Kurkov 

Kyra Lacaden

Mary Jo Leddy

Joan Leishman

Literary Review of Canada

Yann Martel

Dr. Trina McCrae

Scott and Corky McIntyre

Media Profile

Linda Morra 

Omar Mouallem

Kari Moyer

Dr. Kristjan Mullerbeck

Luis Horacio Nájera

Zeynep Oral

Anna Porter

Deepa Rajagopalan

Jim Ryce

Maria Sabaye

Devyani Saltzman

John Ralston Saul

Peter Showler

Governor-General Mary Simon

Philip Slayton

Richard Stursberg

Chris Tenove

Ziya Tong

Toronto Foundation

Liis Truuvert

Jim Turk

University of British Columbia Vancouver Institute

Karen Walton

Grace Westcott

Cynthia Wine

The Writers’ Union of Canada

Arzu Yildiz

Yonge-Lawrence Dentistry

Shelley Youngblut

And all those who have contributed their thoughts and time.

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