John Ralston Saul is an award winning essayist and novelist. Declared a “prophet” by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal. He is the co-Founder and co-Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and 6 Degrees, the global forum on citizenship and immigration. He is President Emeritus of PEN International, a global organization dedicated to freedom of expression, and was the only Canadian writer elected to this position in 97 years.

His fourteen works have been translated into twenty-eight languages in thirty-seven countries. His most recent work, The Comeback (Le Grand Retour) is an examination of the remarkable resurgence to power of Indigenous peoples in Canada which has greatly influenced the national conversation on these issues. In A Fair Country (Mon pays métis) Saul argues that Canada is heavily influenced by Indigenous ideas. In his book, The Collapse of Globalism, Saul predicted the 2008 global financial crisis and the current surge of populism. More recently, his writings on immigration and citizenship are increasingly positioning him as one of the leading global voices on the subject.