Tamara Faith Berger

Tamara Faith Berger is a Canadian author and novelist. She is best known for her novel Maidenhead, which won the Believer Book Award in 2012. Berger is a self-described feminist. Many of her novels explore issues of race and class. Her literary influences include Georges Bataille and Judy Blume.

Her debut novel Lie With Me was adapted into a 2006 film by her husband, the filmmaker Clement Virgo.

She wrote the screenplay for Virgo's 2025 film Steal Away, adapted from a non-fiction book by Karolyn Smardz Frost.

Awards and honours In 2018, The Walrus included Queen Solomon on their "Ten Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018" list.

Publications Lie With Me (2001) The Way of the Whore (2004) A Woman Alone at Night (2007) Maidenhead (2012) Kuntalini (2016) Queen Solomon (2018) Yara (2023)