Kim Echlin discusses her latest novel, Speak, Silence, which weaves together the stories of the women who led the charge to redefine sexual violence in war as a crime against humanity, a war crime, and a constituent element of genocide. In this fictional account of The Hague’s ground-breaking war crimes trials that would shape history, Echlin explores the bond between women grappling with shared trauma, loss and sheer determination.

Award-winning author Kim Echlin lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter , Dagmar’s Daughter, Under the Visible Life and The Disappeared, which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction.

Echilin will appear in conversation with with award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker, Michelle Shephard.

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Kim Echlin: Speak, Silence