List of Canadian writers
Appearance
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Writers are only to be listed here if they already have a Wikipedia article. Dead links will be removed
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Irving Abella | b. 1940 | historian | None is Too Many |
Hugh Abercrombie | 1890-1965 | playwright | Auld Lang Syne |
Mark Abley | b. 1955 | poet, journalist | Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages |
Marianne Ackerman | b. 1952 | playwright, novelist, journalist | |
Janice Acoose | b. 1954 | journalist | Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak |
Milton Acorn | 1923-1986 | poet | The Island Means Minago |
Ken Adachi | 1929-1989 | historian, critic | The Enemy That Never Was |
Evan Adams | b. 1966 | dramatist | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River |
Ian Adams | b. 1937 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence |
Caroline Adderson | b. 1963 | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice |
Marie-Célie Agnant | b. 1953 | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang |
Freda Ahenakew | b. 1932 | linguist, children's literature | |
Kelley Aitken | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate | |
Donald Akenson | b. 1941 | novelist, historian | |
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet | |
Linda Aksomitis | b. 1954 | children's literature | Adeline's Dream |
Donald Alarie | b.1945 | poet | Jérôme et les mots |
Scott Albert | b. 1975 | novelist, screenwriter | |
André Alexis | b. 1947 | novelist, journalist, short stories | Childhood, Asylum |
Edna Alford | poet | ||
Sandra Alland | poet, journalist | ||
Donna Allard | poet | ||
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) | b. 1941 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | |
Grant Allen | 1848-1899 | science writer, novelist | The Woman Who Did |
Harper Allen | romantic fiction | ||
Lillian Allen | b. 1951 | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes |
Ralph Allen | 1913-1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
Sidney Allinson | b. 1930 | historian, historical fiction | |
Paul Almond | b. 1931 | novelist, screenwriter | |
Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951-2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
George Amabile | b. 1936 | poet | |
Elissa Ambrose | romantic fiction | ||
Anahareo | 1906-1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
Marguerite Andersen | b. 1924 | poet | Courts métrages et instantanés |
Doris Anderson | 1921-2007 | journalist | The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter |
Patrick Anderson | b. 1915 | poet | |
Rod Anderson | b. 1935 | poet, accounting texts | |
Gordon Stewart Anderson | 1958-1991 | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | b. 1963 | novelist | The Cure for Death by Lightning |
Michael Andre | poet | ||
François-Réal Angers | 1812-1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
Trey Anthony | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair | |
Salvatore Antonio | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen | |
Lisa Appignanesi | b. 1946 | novelist, biographer | Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir |
Emmanuel Aquin | b. 1968 | novelist | |
Hubert Aquin | 1929-1977 | novelist | Prochain épisode |
Gilles Archambault | b. 1933 | novelist | L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions |
Nelly Arcan | b. 1973 | novelist | Putain |
Bert Archer | b. 1968 | journalist, essayist | The End of Gay |
Jeannette Armstrong | b. 1948 | novelist, poet | Slash |
Kelley Armstrong | b. 1968 | horror fiction | Women of the Otherworld |
David Arnason | b. 1940 | poet, novelist, historian | The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg |
Joanne Arnott | b. 1960 | poet, children's literature | Wiles of Girlhood |
Margaret Atwood | b. 1939 | novelist, poet, critic | The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Surfacing |
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé | 1814-1841 | novelist | L'influence d'un livre |
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé | 1786-1871 | novelist, memoirist | |
Jean-Paul Audet | 1918-1993 | theologian | |
Martin Avery | b. 1955 | poet, short story writer, novelist, sports biographer | |
Margaret Avison | 1918-2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
Malcolm Azania | science fiction | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | |
Caroline Azar | playwright | The Surreal Detective |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Todd Babiak | novelist | The Garneau Block | |
Ken Babstock | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht | |
R. Scott Bakker | b. 1967 | fantasy | Prince of Nothing |
Shauna Singh Baldwin | b. 1962 | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw |
Himani Bannerji | b. 1942 | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism |
Nick Bantock | b. 1949 | novelist | Griffin and Sabine |
Bruce Barber | art critic | Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State | |
Joan Barfoot | b. 1946 | novelist | Dancing in the Dark, Luck |
Gary Barwin | b. 1964 | novelist, children's literature | Seeing Stars |
Michel Basilières | b. 1960 | novelist | Black Bird |
Bill Bauer | poet | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | |
Nancy Bauer | b. 1934 | arts journalist | Flora, Write This Down |
Kevin Bazzana | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould | |
Yves Beauchemin | b. 1941 | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou |
Doug Beardsley | b. 1941 | poet | Dancing Star |
D. Y. Béchard | novelist | Vandal Love | |
Peter Behrens | novelist | The Law of Dreams | |
Henry Beissel | b. 1929 | poet, translator | Under Coyote's Eye |
Ken Belford | b. 1946 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains |
William E. Bell | b. 1945 | children's literature | Forbidden City |
John Bemrose | journalist, novelist | The Island Walkers | |
Nigel Bennett | b. 1949 | fantasy | Keeper of the King, His Father's Son |
David Bergen | b. 1957 | novelist | The Time In Between, A Year of Lesser |
Pierre Berton | 1920-2004 | historian, journalist | The National Dream, The Last Spike |
Dennison Berwick | b. 1956 | travel writer | Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami |
Gérard Bessette | 1920-2005 | novelist | Le libraire, Le Cycle |
H. S. Bhabra | 1955-2000 | novelist | The Adversary, Bad Money |
Navtej Bharati | poet, publisher Third Eye Press | Leela | |
Dave Bidini | non-fiction, songwriter | Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey | |
Sandra Birdsell | b. 1942 | novelist, short story writer | The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf |
Earle Birney | 1904-1995 | poet, novelist, short stories, drama | David and Other Poems, Turvey |
bill bissett | b. 1939 | experimental poet | nobody owns th earth |
Lise Bissonnette | b. 1945 | novelist, journalist | Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus |
Neil Bissoondath | b. 1955 | novelist | A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions |
Marie-Claire Blais | b. 1939 | novelist | Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel |
Clark Blaise | b. 1940 | novelist, short stories | Lunar Attractions |
Giles Blunt | b. 1952 | mystery | Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season |
Dennis Bock | b. 1964 | novelist | The Ash Garden |
Fred Bodsworth | b. 1918 | journalist, naturalist | The Last of the Curlews |
Christian Bök | b. 1966 | poet | Eunoia |
Stephanie Bolster | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
Roo Borson | b. 1952 | poet | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida |
Hédi Bouraoui | b. 1932 | poet, novelist | Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes |
Pan Bouyoucas | b. 1946 | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea |
George Bowering | b. 1935 | novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water |
Marilyn Bowering | b. 1949 | poet, novelist | Visible Worlds, Autobiography |
David Boyd | children's literature | Bottom Drawer | |
George Boyd | dramatist | Consecrated Ground | |
Joseph Boyden | b. 1966 | novelist | Three Day Road |
Harry J. Boyle | 1915-2005 | humorist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
Karleen Bradford | b. 1936 | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves |
Max Braithwaite | 1911-1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
Shannon Bramer | b. 1973 | poet | The Refrigerator Memory |
Dionne Brand | b. 1953 | poet, novelist | What We All Long For, Land to Light On |
Di Brandt | b. 1952 | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care |
Jacques Brault | b. 1933 | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin |
Nathan Braun | academic | Good News for All Creation (co-author), The History and Philosophy of Marriage (4th ed., editor) | |
Brian Brett | b. 1950 | novelist, memoirist | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden |
Robert Bringhurst | b. 1946 | poet, author, and typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major |
David Bromige | b. 1944 | poet | My Poetry |
Barry Broadfoot | 1926-2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
Bertram Brooker | 1888-1955 | poet, advertising | Subconscious Selling |
Nicole Brossard | b. 1943 | poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse |
Sigmund Brouwer | b. 1959 | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! |
Nick Brune | b. 1952 | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture |
Carol Bruneau | b. 1956 | novelist | Purple for Sky |
Ernest Buckler | 1908-1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
Robert Budde | b. 1966 | poet, novelist | Finding Fort George |
Margaret Buffie | children's literature | The Dark Garden, The Finder | |
Bonnie Burnard | b. 1945 | novelist | A Good House |
Mick Burrs | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob | |
Catherine Bush | b. 1961 | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement |
Sharon Butala | b. 1940 | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Barry Callaghan | b. 1937 | novelist and journalist | Barrelhouse Kings |
Morley Callaghan | 1903-1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
Anne Cameron | b. 1938 | novelist, poet, short story writer | Daughters of Copper Woman |
Elspeth Cameron | b. 1943 | biographer | No Previous Experience |
Silver Donald Cameron | b. 1937 | ||
Natalee Caple | b. 1970 | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World |
Bliss Carman | 1861-1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pre |
David Carpenter | |||
Roch Carrier | b. 1937 | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail |
Anne Carson | b. 1950 | poet | Autobiography of Red |
Gillian Chan | |||
David Chariandy | novelist | Soucouyant | |
Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682-1761 | historian | |
Chris Chambers | |||
Herménégilde Chiasson | b. 1946 | poet, playwright | |
Denise Chong | memoirist | The Concubine's Children | |
Wayson Choy | b. 1939 | novelist | The Jade Peony, All That Matters |
Lesley Choyce | b. 1951 | ||
Eliza Clark | b. 1963 | novelist | Bite the Stars |
Greg Clark | 1892-1977 | humorist | |
Joan Clark | b. 1934 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires |
Austin Clarke | b. 1934 | novelist | The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack |
George Elliott Clarke | b. 1960 | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls, George and Rue |
Lynn Coady | b. 1970 | novelist | Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven |
Leonard Cohen | b. 1934 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter | Beautiful Losers |
Matt Cohen | 1942-1999 | novelist | Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After |
John Robert Colombo | b. 1936 | poet and compiler of reference books | |
Jan Conn | b. 1952 | poet and insect geneticist | |
Karen Connelly | b. 1969 | ||
Ralph Conner (also known as Charles William Gordon) | The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days | ||
George Ramsay Cook | b. 1931 | historian | |
Hugh Cook | b. 1942 | ||
Michael Cook | |||
Dennis Cooley | b. 1944 | ||
Douglas Cooper | novelist | ||
Thomas B. Costain | 1885-1965 | historical fiction | |
Douglas Coupland | b. 1961 | novelist | Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma |
Isabella Valancy Crawford | |||
Donald Creighton | 1902-1979 | historian | |
Octave Crémazie | 1827-1879 | poet | |
Lynn Crosbie | |||
Lorna Crozier | b. 1948 | poet | |
Michael Crummey | |||
Alan Cumyn | b. 1960 | ||
Richard Cumyn | |||
Herb Curtis |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Paulo da Costa | |||
Frank Davey | b. 1940 | ||
Robertson Davies | 1913-1995 | novelist | Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone |
Lauren B. Davis | b. 1955 | novelist, short story writer | |
Frank Parker Day | 1881-1950 | novelist | Rockbound |
Mazo de la Roche | 1879-1961 | novelist | Jalna |
Charles de Lint | fantasy | ||
Sandra Dempsey | |||
Barry Dempster | |||
Alexander Dewdney | computer science and philosophy | ||
Christopher Dewdney | b. 1951 | ||
Mary di Michele | |||
Sean Dixon | |||
Kildare Dobbs | b. 1923 | short story writer | |
Cory Doctorow | b. 1971 | science fiction | |
Don Domanski | b. 1950 | ||
Candas Dorsey | b. 1960 | science fiction | |
Clive Doucet | |||
Orville Lloyd Douglas | b. 1976 | poet | |
William Henry Drummond | 1854-1907 | poet | The Habitant |
Marcel Dubé | |||
Réjean Ducharme | b. 1941 | ||
Louis Dudek | 1918-2001 | poet | |
Dave Duncan | b. 1933 |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Edith Maude Eaton | 1865-1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
Winnifred Eaton | 1875-1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
George Elliott | 1923-1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
Louis Émond | b. 1969 | novelist | The Manuscript |
Howard Engel | b. 1931 | mystery | The Suicide Murders |
Marian Engel | 1933-1985 | novelist | Bear |
Yves Engler | political writer and activist | Playing Left Wing | |
Jon Evans | b. 1973 | novelist | Dark Places |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Emil Ludwig Fackenheim | 1916-2003 | historian, philosopher | |
Brian Fawcett | b. 1944 | novelist, non-fiction | Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television too Slow |
Ian Ferguson | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses | |
Trevor Ferguson | b. 1947 | novelist | |
Will Ferguson | b. 1964 | humorist | Why I Hate Canadians, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw |
Jacques Ferron | 1921-1985 | playwright | |
Madeleine Ferron | |||
George Fetherling | |||
Charlotte Fielden | b. 1932 | ||
Joy Fielding | b. 1945 | novelist | |
Timothy Findley | 1930-2002 | novelist, dramatist, short stories | The Wars, The Piano Man's Daughter |
Sheree Fitch | |||
Judith Fitzgerald | |||
Anne Fleming | |||
Barbara Fletcher | |||
Dennis Foon | |||
Charles Foran | |||
John-James Ford | |||
Helen Forrester | b. 1919 | novelist | |
Cecil Foster | |||
Barbara Fradkin | |||
Tess Fragoulis | |||
Brad Fraser | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | |
John Anderson Fraser | b. 1944 | ||
Keath Fraser | |||
Raymond Fraser | Rum River, Costa Blanca | ||
Sylvia Fraser | b. 1935 | novelist | |
Louis Fréchette | 1839-1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
David French | b. 1939 | playwright | |
Patrick Friesen | |||
Mark Frutkin | |||
Northrop Frye | 1912-1991 | critic | |
Robert Fulford | journalist | ||
Nicola Furlong |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Mavis Gallant | b. 1922 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
François-Xavier Garneau | 1809-1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912-1943 | poet | Regards et jeux dans l'espace |
Hugh Garner | 1913-1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
Elyse Gasco | b. 1967 | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? |
Bill Gaston | b. 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite |
Pauline Gedge | b. 1945 | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions |
Camilla Gibb | b. 1968 | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly |
Graeme Gibson | b. 1934 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
Margaret Gibson | 1948-2006 | novelist, short story writer | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
William Gibson | b. 1948 | science fiction | Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties |
Sky Gilbert | b. 1952 | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space |
John Patrick Gillese | 1926-1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
David Gilmour | b. 1949 | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
Joanna Glass | b. 1936 | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying |
Susan Glickman | b. 1953 | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape |
Douglas Glover | b. 1948 | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N |
Jacques Godbout | b. 1933 | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine |
Glenda Goertzen | b. 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs |
Leona Gom | b. 1946 | novelist, mystery, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame |
Phyllis Gotlieb | b. 1926 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
Sondra Gotlieb | b. 1936 | newspaper columnist | True Confections |
Hiromi Goto | b. 1966 | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child |
John Gould | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions | |
George R. D. Goulet | b. 1933 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied |
Katherine Govier | b. 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
David Gow | b. 1964 | playwright, screenwriter | Steel Toes |
Lee Gowan | b. 1961 | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy |
Barbara Gowdy | b. 1950 | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone |
Gwethalyn Graham | 1913-1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
Neile Graham | b. 1958 | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory |
George Grant | 1918-1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
Ed Greenwood | b. 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms |
Grey Owl | 1888-1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879-1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
Genni Gunn | b. 1949 | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless |
Kristjana Gunnars | b. 1948 | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps |
Ralph Gustafson | 1909-1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
Sandra Gwyn | 1935-2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Rawi Hage | b. 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game |
Joan Haggerty | |||
Roderick Haig-Brown | b. 1941 | ||
Arthur Hailey | 1920-2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | The Clockmaker | ||
Jane Hamilton | |||
Claire Harris | b. 1937 | ||
Marjorie Harris | |||
Jill Hartman | |||
Kristen den Hartog | |||
Kenneth J. Harvey | b. 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud |
Elisabeth Harvor | b. 1936 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart |
Barbara Haworth-Attard | b. 1953 | ||
Elizabeth Hay | b. 1951 | novelist | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather |
Elliott Hayes | 1956-1994 | ||
Anne Hébert | Kamouraska | ||
Steven Heighton | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer | |
Michael Helm | |||
David Helwig | |||
Maggie Helwig | |||
Louis Hémon | 1880-1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
John Herbert | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
Sheila Heti | novelist, short stories | Ticknor | |
Paul Hiebert | 1892-1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
Tomson Highway | b. 1951 | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
Lawrence Hill | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes | |
Robert Hilles | b. 1951 | ||
Jack Hodgins | b. 1938 | ||
Clive Holden | poet | Trains of Winnipeg | |
Pauline Holdstock | |||
Greg Hollingshead | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer |
Michael Honeth | b. 1970 | ||
Hugh Hood | 1928-2000 | novelist | The New Age |
Cornelia Hoogland | b. 1952 | ||
Nalo Hopkinson | b. 1960 | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads |
Harold Horwood | b. 1923 | ||
Tanya Huff | fantasy | ||
Matt Hughes | |||
Helen Humphreys | b. 1961 | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden |
Aislinn Hunter | |||
Bruce Hunter | |||
Catherine Hunter | |||
Maureen Hunter | |||
Nancy Huston | b. 1953 | novelist, translator | |
Hazel Hutchins | |||
Bruce Hutchison |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Michael Ignatieff | b. 1947 | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging |
George K. Ilsley | b. 1958 | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug |
Susan Ioannou | b. 1944 | poet | Clarity Between Clouds |
Anosh Irani | b. 1974 | novelist | The Song of Kahunsha |
Ann Ireland | b. 1953 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
Adel Iskandar | b. 1977 | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism |
Frances Itani | b. 1942 | novelist | Deafening |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Donald Jack | 1924-2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers |
Suzanne Jacob | b. 1953 | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu |
J. Robert Janes | b. 1932 | mystery | |
Mark Anthony Jarman | b. 1955 | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet |
Paulette Jiles | b. 1943 | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women |
K.V. Johansen | b. 1968 | fantasy | |
E. Pauline Johnson | 1861-1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
Wentworth M. Johnson | b. 1939 | science fiction | Angel of the Veil |
Wayne Johnston | b. 1958 | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion |
Andy Jones | b. 1948 | playwright, screenwriter | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
Terry Jordan | short stories | It's a Hard Cow |
K
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Surjeet Kalsey | b. 1944 | poet, short stories | Behind the Palace Doors |
Smaro Kamboureli | |||
Alan Kane | b. 1954 | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | |
Ibi Kaslik | |||
Welwyn Wilton Katz | |||
Guy Gavriel Kay | b. 1954 | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana |
Lionel Kearns | b. 1937 | ||
Sean Kennedy | b. 1973 | ||
Crawford Kilian | |||
Crad Kilodney | b. 1948 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
Jack King | |||
Thomas King | b. 1943 | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water |
Mark Kingwell | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium | |
W.P. Kinsella | b. 1935 | novelist, short story writer | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
Raymond Knister | |||
Joy Kogawa | poet, novelist | Obasan | |
Gordon Korman | |||
Myrna Kostash | |||
Shane Koyczan | |||
Henry Kriesel | |||
John Krizanc | b. 1956 | playwright | Tamara |
Robert Kroetsch | b. 1927 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
Janice Kulyk Keefer | b. 1952 | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Sonnet L'Abbé | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe | |
Larissa Lai | b. 1967 | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand |
Vincent Lam | b. 1974 | medical writer, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures |
Tim Lander | b. 1938 | poet | Street Heart Poems |
Patrick Lane | b. 1939 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
Evelyn Lau | b. 1971 | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid |
Margaret Laurence | 1926-1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel, The Diviners |
Paul Laurendeau | b. 1958 | novelist | L'assimilande |
Eric Layman | 1943-2008 | poet | To a Stark and Clean Place |
Irving Layton | 1912-2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
Stephen Leacock | 1869-1944 | humorist | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
Dennis Lee | b. 1939 | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies |
John B. Lee | b. 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
Ronald Lee | b. 1934 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
Sky Lee | b. 1952 | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe |
Mark Leiren-Young | b. 1962 | playwright | Blueprints from Space |
John Lent | 1948-2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
Norman Levine | 1923-2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
Shar Levine | b. 1953 | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope |
Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
Dorothy Livesay | 1909-1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
Douglas Lochhead | b. 1922 | poet | Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
Malcolm Lowry | 1909-1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
Pat Lowther | 1935-1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
Janet Lunn | b. 1928 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
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N
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Akhtar Naraghi | novelist, poet | The Big Green House | |
Émile Nelligan | 1879-1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
Pierre Nepveu | b. 1946 | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques |
John Newlove | 1938-2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
bpNichol | 1944-1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
Hal Niedzviecki | b. 1971 | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too |
Henri Nouwen | 1932-1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
Alden Nowlan | 1933-1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I’m a Stranger Here Myself |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Sheldon Oberman | 1949-2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
Heather O'Neill | novelist | Lullabies for Little Criminals | |
Michael Ondaatje | b. 1943 | novelist, poet | The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost |
Kenneth Oppel | b. 1967 | children's literature | Airborn, Skybreaker |
Stephen Osborne | b. 1947 | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World |
P
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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P.K. Page | b. 1916 | poet | |
Kevin Patterson | b. 1964 | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between |
Michael Patterson | |||
Raymond M Patterson | |||
Sasenarine Persaud | essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet | ||
Len Peterson | |||
Ted Plantos | |||
Daniel Poliquin | |||
Sharon Pollock | b. 1936 | ||
Jacques Poulin | b. 1937 | novelist | Volkswagen Blues |
B.W. Powe | philosopher | A Canada of Light | |
E.J. Pratt | 1883-1964 | poet | |
Robert Priest | poet | ||
Al Purdy | b. 1918 | poet | |
Andrew Pyper | b. 1968 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |
Q
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Darlene Quaife | b. 1948 | novelist | Bone Bird |
Andy Quan | b. 1969 | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions |
Paul Quarrington | b. 1953 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music, King Leary |
Pascale Quiviger | b. 1969 | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
R
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Thomas Raddall | 1903-1994 | novelist | |
Edeet Ravel | b. 1955 | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers |
Mark A. Rayner | |||
Gurcharan Rampuri | |||
Angela Rawlings | |||
Wayne Ray | short stories | Giants of the North, Going Down Goose Lane Toward Broken Jaw | |
James Reaney | 1926-2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's |
Michael Redhill | novelist, short stories | Martin Sloane | |
Gayla Reid | |||
Stephen Reid | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole | |
Nino Ricci | b. 1959 | novelist | Lives of the Saints |
David Adams Richards | b. 1950 | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street |
Mordecai Richler | 1931-2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version |
Ringuet (Phllipe Panneton) | 1895-1960 | novelist | Thirty Acres |
Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860-1943 | ||
Ken Roberts | |||
Paul William Roberts | |||
Lisa Robertson | poet | ||
Eden Robinson | novelist | ||
Peter Robinson | b. 1950 | mystery | |
Ajmer Rode | poet, playwright, translator | ||
Spider Robinson | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon | |
Richard Rohmer | b. 1924 | ||
Linda Rogers | |||
Leon Rooke | b. 1934 | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog |
Patrick Roscoe | |||
Sinclair Ross | 1908-1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House |
Gabrielle Roy | 1909-1983 | novelist | The Tin Flute, Children of My Heart |
Holley Rubinsky | b. 1943 | novelist, short stories | At First I Hope For Rescue |
Jane Rule | 1931-2007 | novelist | Desert of the Heart |
Elizabeth Ruth | b.1968 | novelist | Smoke |
George Ryga | 1932-1987 | playwright and novelist | The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
Geoff Ryman |
S
T
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Jules-Paul Tardivel | |||
Timothy Taylor | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park | |
Wayne Tefs | |||
Charles Templeton | |||
John Terpstra | poet | ||
Denis Thériault | |||
Yves Thériault | 1915-1983 | ||
Sharon Thesen | |||
Madeleine Thien | |||
Audrey Thomas | |||
John Thompson | |||
Elizabeth Thornton | |||
Miriam Toews | novelist | A Complicated Kindness | |
Morley Torgov | b. 1927 | ||
Lola Lemire Tostevin | |||
Catharine Parr Traill | 1802-1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
Rhea Tregebov | |||
Lise Tremblay | |||
Michel Tremblay | b. 1942 | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs |
Karen X. Tulchinsky | |||
Élise Turcotte | |||
Michael Turner | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo | |
Michael Twist | b. 1972 | Highs & Lows |
U
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Marie Uguay | 1955-1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
Priscilla Uppal | b. 1974 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
Jane Urquhart | b. 1949 | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers |
V
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
W.D. Valgardson | b. 1939 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories |
Pierre Vallières | 1938-1998 | political essayist | Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique |
Edo Van Belkom | b. 1962 | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf |
Guy Vanderhaeghe | b. 1951 | novelist, short stories | The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing |
Aritha Van Herk | b. 1954 | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address |
A. E. van Vogt | 1912-2000 | science fiction | Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom |
Jean Vanier | b. 1928 | theologian | |
M. G. Vassanji | b. 195- | novelist | The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall |
R. M. Vaughan | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells | |
Guillermo Verdecchia | b. 1962 | playwright | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures |
Paul Vermeersch | b. 1973 | poet | Burn |
Margaret Visser | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate | |
Élisabeth Vonarburg | b. 1947 | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères |
W
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Fred Wah | b. 1939 | poet, novelist | Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poetry, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
Bronwen Wallace | 1945-1989 | poet, short stories | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To |
Frederick William Wallace | 1886-1958 | journalist, novelist | Wooden Ships and Iron Men |
Tom Walmsley | b. 1948 | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin |
Sabrina Ward Harrison | b. 1975 | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself |
Dianne Warren | b. 1950 | playwright | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl |
David Watmough | b. 1926 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
Sheila Watson | 1909-1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
Alison Wearing | b. 1967 | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah |
John Weier | b. 1949 | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree: Journeys in Place and Memory |
Steve Weiner | novelist | The Museum of Love | |
Elizabeth Wellburn | children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
Zachariah Wells | b. 1976 | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
Michael Wex | b. 1954 | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
Dawud Wharnsby Ali | b. 1972 | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
Thomas Wharton | novelist | Salamander | |
Rudy Wiebe | b. 1934 | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear |
Ethel Wilson | 1888-1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
Sheri-D Wilson | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder | |
Carol Windley | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling |
Rob Winger | poet | Muybridge's Horse | |
Michael Winter | b. 1965 | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why |
Adele Wiseman | 1928-1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
George Woodcock | 1912-1995 | poet, critic and anarchist | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
Marnie Woodrow | b. 1969 | novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
Lance Woolaver | b. 1948 | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange |
Eric Wright | b. 1929 | mystery | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
L. R. Wright | 1939-2001 | mystery | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
Richard B. Wright | b. 1937 | novelist | Clara Callan |
Tim Wynne-Jones | b. 1948 | children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
Tim Wynveen | novelist | Angel Falls, Balloon |
X
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Xiaowen Zeng | journalist, short stories |
Y
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Joel Yanofsky | novelist | Jacob's Ladder | |
Pierre Yergeau | b. 1957 | novelist | L'écrivain public |
Ying Chen | b. 1961 | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile |
Jean Yoon | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project | |
Alissa York | b. 1970 | novelist, short stories | Effigy |
Elwy Yost | b. 1925 | mystery | White Shadows |
David Young | b. 1946 | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn |
d'bi young | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story | |
Scott Young | b. 1918 | biographer, sportswriter | A Writer's Life |
Z
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Rachel Zolf | poet | Human Resources, Masque | |
Carolyn Zonailo | b. 1947 | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems |
Jan Zwicky | b. 1955 | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |
See also
- List of Canadian poets
- List of Canadian playwrights
- List of Canadian short story writers
- List of Canadian science fiction authors
- List of Canadian historians
- List of Quebec writers
- List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
- List of famous Canadians
- Lists of authors
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