2025 Knowlton Literary Festival

Louise Penny x in conversation with Eliza Reid

Best selling Canadian author

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Saturday October 18, 2025
13h - 14h
Community Centre, 270 Victoria, Knowlton QC
Note: Doors open 15 minutes before event

Saturday October 18, 2025

14h30 - 15h30

Community Centre, 270 Victoria, Knowlton QC

Note: Doors open 15 minutes before event


Louise Penny is the multi-award winning author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, set in her home province of Québec, Canada. Her books, including State of Terror written with Hillary Rodham Clinton, have sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, topped international bestseller lists, including the New York Times, and been translated into 32 languages. The recipient of both the Order of Canada and l’Ordre national du Québec, her country’s highest civilian honours, her Three Pines Foundation reaches out to those in crisis and offers financial and emotional support, with a special focus on literacy as well as dementia care. Her husband, Michael, died of dementia in 2016. She lives with her Golden Retrievers Muggins and Charlie in a village south of Montréal. For more about Louise and Inspector Gamache, visit: www.louisepenny.com