List of Canadian writers
Appearance
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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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 |
Gil Adamson | novelist, short stories, poetry | The Outlander | |
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 | |
Robert Arthur Alexie | novelist | Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian | |
André Alexis | b. 1957 | 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 | |
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 | 1973–2009 | 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 | |
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 | |
Martha Baillie | novelist | The Incident Report | |
R. Scott Bakker | b. 1967 | fantasy | Prince of Nothing |
Shauna Singh Baldwin | b. 1962 | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw |
Winifred Bambrick | 1892–1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
Himani Bannerji | b. 1942 | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism |
Gary Bannerman | b. 1947 | non-fiction | Squandering Billions |
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 |
Robert Barr | 1849–1912 | novelist, humorist | The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
Gary Barwin | b. 1964 | novelist, children's literature | Seeing Stars |
Rodrigo Bascunan | b. 1976 | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System |
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, short-story writer | 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 |
Winthrop Pickard Bell | 1884–1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
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 |
David Berman | b. 1962 | non-fiction | Do Good |
Pierre Berton | 1920–2004 | historian, journalist, memoirist | The National Dream, The Last Spike |
Dennison Berwick | b. 1956 | adventure travel writer | Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges |
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 | |
Anthony Bidulka | mysteries | Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu | |
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 |
Lance Blomgren | b. 1970 | short stories, essays | Walkups, Corner Pieces |
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 |
Randy Boyagoda | b. 1976 | novelist, non-fiction | Governor of the Northern Province |
David Boyd | children's literature | Bottom Drawer | |
George Boyd | dramatist | Consecrated Ground | |
Joseph Boyden | b. 1966 | novelist | Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce |
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 |
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 |
Frances Brooke | 1724–1789 | novelist, essayist | The History of Emily Montague |
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 |
Cathy Marie Buchanan | b. 1963 | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still |
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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Stephen Cain | b. 1970 | poet | American Standard/ Canada Dry |
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 |
George Frederick Cameron | 1854–1885 | poet, lawyer, and journalist, | operetta Leo, the Royal Cadet |
Silver Donald Cameron | b. 1937 | ||
Natalee Caple | b. 1970 | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World |
Pat Capponi | b. 1949 | memoirist | Upstairs in the Crazy House |
Bliss Carman | 1861–1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
David Carpenter | |||
Roch Carrier | b. 1937 | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail |
Anne Carson | b. 1950 | poet | Autobiography of Red |
Allan Casey | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada | |
Robert Chafe | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence | |
Gillian Chan | |||
David Chariandy | novelist | Soucouyant | |
Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682–1761 | historian | |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | b. 1975 | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar |
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 | ||
Michael Christie | short stories | The Beggar's Garden | |
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 |
Mark Coakley | true crime | Tip and Trade | |
Leonard Cohen | b. 1934 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter | Beautiful Losers |
Matt Cohen | 1942–1999 | novelist | Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After |
Susan G. Cole | b. 1952 | journalist | Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography |
Trevor Cole | b. 1960 | novelist | The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean |
Don Coles | b. 1928 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World |
John Robert Colombo | b. 1936 | poet and compiler of reference books | |
Jan Conn | b. 1952 | poet and insect geneticist | |
Karen Connelly | b. 1969 | ||
Kevin Connolly | poet, book editor | Drift, Revolver | |
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon) | 1860–1937 | novelist, essayist | 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 | ||
Carole Corbeil | 1952–2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | playwright | Scratch | |
Thomas B. Costain | 1885–1965 | historical fiction and non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice |
Douglas Coupland | b. 1961 | novelist | Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma |
Daniel Allen Cox | b. 1976 | novelist | Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In |
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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Cherish D'Angelo, aka Cheryl Kaye Tardif | b. 1963 | novelist | Lancelot's Lady |
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 | |
Amber Dawn | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa | |
Frank Parker Day | 1881–1950 | novelist | Rockbound |
Mazo de la Roche | 1879–1961 | novelist | Jalna |
Charles de Lint | fantasy | ||
James de Mille | 1833–1880 | novelist | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder |
Marq de Villiers | b. 1940 | journalist, magazine editor, science writer | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource |
Anthony De Sa | novelist, short story writer | Barnacle Love | |
Patrick deWitt | b. 1975 | novelist | The Sisters Brothers |
Sandra Dempsey | |||
Barry Dempster | |||
Randall Denley | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate | |
Alexander Dewdney | computer science and philosophy | ||
Christopher Dewdney | b. 1951 | ||
Myrna Dey | novelist, journalist | Extensions | |
Mary di Michele | b. 1949 | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love |
Ranj Dhaliwal | b. 1976 | novelist, author, fiction | Daaku |
Ann Diamond | b. 1951 | poems, novels, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye |
Nicolas Dickner | b. 1972 | novels, short stories | Nikolski |
Kildare Dobbs | b. 1923 | short story writer | |
Farzana Doctor | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement | |
Cory Doctorow | b. 1971 | science fiction | |
Jeramy Dodds | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds | |
Bob Dolman | screenwriter | SCTV | |
Don Domanski | b. 1950 | ||
Candas Dorsey | b. 1960 | science fiction | |
Clive Doucet | |||
Orville Lloyd Douglas | b. 1976 | poet | |
James Doull | 1918–2001 | philosopher | |
Glen Downey | b. 1969 | children's literature | |
Brian Doyle | b. 1935 | young adult fiction | |
William Henry Drummond | 1854–1907 | poet | The Habitant |
Marcel Dubé | |||
Réjean Ducharme | b. 1941 | ||
Louis Dudek | 1918–2001 | poet | |
Dave Duncan | b. 1933 | ||
Sara Jeannette Duncan | 1861–1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
Kristyn Dunnion | b. 1969 | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles |
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Name | Lifetime | books | notable books |
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Edith Maude Eaton | 1865–1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
Evelyn Eaton | 1902–1983 | novels, poetry | Quietly My Captain Waits |
Chris Eaton | b.1971 | novels, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect |
Winnifred Eaton | 1875–1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
Kim Echlin | b. 1955 | novelist | The Disappeared |
Esi Edugyan | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues | |
George Elliott | 1923–1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
Louis Émond | b. 1969 | novelist | The Manuscript |
Marina Endicott | b. 1958 | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows" |
Howard Engel | b. 1931 | mystery | The Suicide Murders |
Marian Engel | 1933–1985 | novelist | Bear |
Yves Engler | political writer and activist | Playing Left Wing | |
Steven Erikson | b. 1959 | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series |
Ann Eriksson | b. 1956 | novelist | In The Hands of Anubis |
Jon Evans | b. 1973 | novelist | Dark Places |
Stanley Evans | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |
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Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Emil Ludwig Fackenheim | 1916–2003 | historian, philosopher | |
Terry Fallis | humorist | The Best Laid Plans | |
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 |
Charles Fenerty | c. 1821–1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
Ian Ferguson | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses | |
Max Ferguson | b. 1924 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
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 | c. 1922 - 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
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 | |||
James FitzGerald | non-fiction | Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past | |
Judith Fitzgerald | |||
Anne Fleming | |||
May Agnes Fleming | 1840–1880 | writer, novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
Barbara Fletcher | |||
Lisa Foad | short stories, journalism | The Night Is a Mouth | |
Waawaate Fobister | playwright | Agokwe | |
Dennis Foon | |||
Charles Foran | |||
John-James Ford | |||
Helen Forrester | b. 1919 | novelist | |
Cecil Foster | |||
Barbara Fradkin | |||
Tess Fragoulis | |||
Brian Francis | novelist | Fruit | |
Brad Fraser | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | |
John Anderson Fraser | b. 1944 | ||
Keath Fraser | |||
Raymond Fraser | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life | ||
Sylvia Fraser | b. 1935 | novelist | |
Louis Fréchette | 1839–1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
David French | b. 1939 | playwright | |
Maida Parlow French | novelist, artist, biographer | ||
Patrick Friesen | |||
Mark Frutkin | |||
Northrop Frye | 1912–1991 | critic | Anatomy of Criticism |
Robert Fulford | journalist | ||
Wes Funk | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage | |
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 |
Steven Galloway | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
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 |
John Murray Gibbon | 1875–1952 | non-fiction novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
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 |
John Glassco | 1909–1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
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 |
Dave Godfrey | b. 1938 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
Glenda Goertzen | b. 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs |
Oliver Goldsmith | 1794–1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
Gabriella Goliger | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped | |
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, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
Terry Goulet | b. 1934 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied (Researcher), The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
Katherine Govier | b. 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
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 |
Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874–1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
Jack Granatstein | b. 1939 | historian | |
George Grant | 1918–1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
Jessica Grant | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise | |
Ed Greenwood | b. 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms |
Grey Owl | 1888–1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894–1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879–1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
Brett Josef Grubisic | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities | |
Germaine Guèvremont | 1893–1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
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 |
H
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works | |
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Rawi Hage | b. 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach | |
Joan Haggerty | ||||
Roderick Haig-Brown | b. 1941 | |||
Arthur Hailey | 1920–2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport | |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | The Clockmaker | |||
Jane Eaton Hamilton | b. 1954 | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger | ||
Lyn Hancock | b. 1938 | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon | ||
Alexander Harris | 1805–1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods | |
Claire Harris | b. 1937 | |||
Marjorie Harris | ||||
Keith Harrison | b. 1945 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek | |
Jill Hartman | ||||
Kristen den Hartog | ||||
Kenneth J. Harvey | b. 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco | |
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 | |||
Matthew Hays | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers | ||
Charles Heavysege | 1816–1876 | poet | Saul | |
Anne Hébert | Kamouraska | |||
Steven Heighton | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer | ||
William C. Heine | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian | ||
Michael Helm | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things | ||
David Helwig | ||||
Maggie Helwig | ||||
Louis Hémon | 1880–1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine | |
Rebecca Hendry | novelist, short stories, magazine articles | Grace River | ||
John Herbert | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes | ||
Sheila Heti | novelist, short stories | Ticknor | Caitlin Hicks
playwright, novelist, short stories, non-fiction "Six Palm Trees", "Just A Little Fever", "Singing the Bones", "Stories for a Winter Solstice" George Goes for a Walk 3 Short Stories]]" | |
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 | |
Margaret Lindsay Holton (aka Ali-Janna Whyte) |
b. 1955 | novelist, short stories, poet, social history | Economic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs | |
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 | ||||
Joel Thomas Hynes | b. 1976 | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday |
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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 |
J
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Donald Jack | 1924–2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
Suzanne Jacob | b. 1953 | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu |
Anna Brownell Jameson | 1794–1860 | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada | |
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, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus |
E. Pauline Johnson | 1861–1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
Wentworth M. Johnson | b. 1939 | science fiction, mystery fiction | Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series |
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 |
---|---|---|---|
Surjeet Kalsey | poet, drama, short stories, translations | FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind,"Colours of My Heart", "Glimpses of Twentieth Century Punjabi Poetry in English Translation", "Behind the Palace Doors" (Drama) | |
Smaro Kamboureli | |||
Alan Kane | b. 1954 | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | |
Ibi Kaslik | b. 1973 | novelist | Skinny, The Angel Riots |
Welwyn Wilton Katz | |||
Guy Gavriel Kay | b. 1954 | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan |
Lionel Kearns | b. 1937 | ||
Sean Kelly | b. 1940 | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon |
Lionel Kearns | b. 1937 | ||
Thomas P. Kelley | 1910-1982 | pulp, true crime | The Black Donnellys |
M. T. Kelly | b. 1946 | novelist | A Dream Like Mine |
Crawford Kilian | |||
Crad Kilodney | b. 1948 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
Jack King | |||
Basil King | 1859–1928 | novels; co-founder Canadian Authors Association | The Inner Shrine (1909) |
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 |
William Kirby | 1817–1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
A. M. Klein | 1909–1972 | novelist, poet | The Second Scroll |
Raymond Knister | |||
Alexander Knox | 1907–1995 | actor, novelist | |
Joy Kogawa | b. 1935- | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka, |
Gordon Korman | |||
Myrna Kostash | |||
Shane Koyczan | |||
Henry Kreisel | 1922–1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
John Krizanc | b. 1956 | playwright | Tamara |
Robert Kroetsch | b. 1927–2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
Janice Kulyk Keefer | b. 1952 | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library |
Michael Kusugak | b. 1948 | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog |
L
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
Annette Lapointe | b. 1978 | novelist | Stolen |
Evelyn Lau | b. 1971 | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid |
Margaret Laurence | 1926–1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel, The Diviners |
Mary Lawson | b. 1946 | novelist | Crow Lake |
Irving Layton | 1912–2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
Jack Layton | 1950–2011 | non-fiction | Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis |
Stephen Leacock | 1869–1944 | humorist | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
Dennis Lee | b. 1939 | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies |
JJ Lee | non-fiction | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit | |
Jen Sookfong Lee | novelist | The End of East | |
John B. Lee | b. 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
Nancy Lee | b. 1970 | short stories | Dead Girls |
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 |
Roger Lemelin | 1919–1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
John Lent | 1948–2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
Douglas LePan | 1914–1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter |
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 |
Naomi K. Lewis | 1976– | novelist & non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist |
Wyndham Lewis | 1882–1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
Michael Lista | b. 1983 | poet | Bloom |
Jean Little | b. 1932 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
Dorothy Livesay | 1909–1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
Billie Livingston | b.1965 | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes |
Douglas Lochhead | b. 1922 | poet | High Marsh Road, 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 |
Pearl Luke | b. 1958 | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee |
Janet Lunn | b. 1928 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
Annabel Lyon | b. 1970 | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean |
Eswyn Lyster | 1923–2009 | war brides, war author | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
M
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Rozena Maart | b. 1962 | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle |
Patrick MacAdam | Gold Medal Misfits | ||
Agnes Maule Machar | |||
Ann-Marie MacDonald | b. 1958 | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) |
Bernell MacDonald | b. 1950 | ||
Hugh MacDonald | |||
Jake MacDonald | |||
Janice MacDonald | b. 1959 | novelist, children's books, short stories | Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out, Sticks and Stones |
Maggie MacDonald | |||
Gwendolyn MacEwen | 1941–1987 | poet | |
Linden MacIntyre | b. 1943 | novelist, journalist | The Bishop's Man |
Rory Maclean | b. 1954 | ||
Hugh MacLennan | 1907–1990 | novelist and essayist | Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising |
Matt MacLennan | |||
Michael MacLennan | |||
Alexander MacLeod | short stories | Light Lifting | |
Alistair MacLeod | b. 1936 | novelist, short stories | No Great Mischief |
Elizabeth Macleod | biographer | ||
Rick Maddocks | b. 1970 | short stories | Sputnik Diner |
Rabindranath Maharaj | b. 1955 | novelist, short story writer | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice |
Antonine Maillet | b. 1929 | novelist, playwright | La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charette |
Kevin Major | b. 1949 | ||
Pasha Malla | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method | |
Eli Mandel | |||
David Manicom | b. 1960 | poet, novelist | |
Lee Maracle | b. 1950 | poet, novelist | |
Daphne Marlatt | b. 1942 | ||
Paul Marlowe | novelist, short stories | Sporeville | |
John Marlyn | 1912–1985 | ||
Nicole Markotic | |||
Tom Marshall | 1938-1993 | poest, novelist, critic | Adele at the End of the Day |
Yann Martel | b. 1963 | novelist, short story writer | Life of Pi |
Carol Matas | b. 1949 | ||
Shirlee Smith Matheson | |||
Colin McAdam | novelist | Some Great Thing | |
Steve McCaffery | |||
Nellie McClung | journalist | ||
John McCrae | 1872–1918 | poet | "In Flanders' Fields" |
Derek McCulloch | b. 1964 | graphic novelist and children's book writer | "Stagger Lee" |
Colin McDougall | 1917–1984 | novelist | Execution |
Franklin D. McDowell | 1888–1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
Jaimie McEvoy | b. 1965 | historian | |
David McFadden | |||
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon) | 1902–1977 | children's literature | The Hardy Boys |
Sheryl McFarlane | b. 1954 | children's literature / young adult fiction | Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog |
Oonah McFee | novels, short stories | Sandbars | |
James McIntyre | 1827–1906 | poet | |
Ami McKay | The Birth House | ||
Don McKay | poet, essayist | ||
Leo McKay, Jr. | b. 1964 | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six, Like This |
Stuart McLean | b. 1948 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
Marshall McLuhan | 1911–1980 | academic | |
Susan McMaster | |||
Sylvia McNicoll | |||
Christopher Meades | b. 1974 | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark |
John Melady | |||
Lee Mellor | b.1982 | true crime writer, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder |
Judith Merril | 1923 - 1997 | science fiction writer, editor | |
John Metcalf | b. 1938 | ||
Anne Michaels | poet, novelist | Fugitive Pieces | |
Roy Miki | |||
Ron Miksha | b. 1954 | Bad Beekeeping | |
John Miller | b. 1968 | novelist | The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath |
Orlo Miller | 1911-1993 | historian, novelist | |
Kenneth G. Mills | 1923–2004 | poet | |
Rohinton Mistry | b. 1952 | novelist | Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance |
Jared Mitchell | |||
W.O. Mitchell | 1914–1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874–1942 | novelist, children's literature | Anne of Green Gables |
Susanna Moodie | 1803–1885 | memoirist | Roughing it in the Bush |
Brian Moore | 1921–1999 | Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey | |
Christopher G. Moore | b. 1952 | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series |
Lisa Moore | short stories, novelist | ||
Shani Mootoo | b. 1958 | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night |
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon | poet | ||
Pierre Morency | b. 1942 | poet and playwright | |
Bernice Morgan | |||
Dwayne Morgan | |||
Kim Moritsugu | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure | |
Donna Morrissey | |||
Kim Morrissey | b. 1956 | ||
Colin Morton | |||
Daniel David Moses | poet and playwright | ||
Tara Moss | b. 1973 | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess |
Erin Mouré | poet | ||
Farley Mowat | b. 1921 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
Alice Munro | b. 1931 | short stories | The Progress of Love, Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman |
Jim Munroe | 1945 | science fiction | Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico |
Robert Munsch | b. 1945 | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess |
George Murray | b. 1971 | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms |
John Murrell | playwright | ||
Susan Musgrave | b. 1951 | poet and novelist | The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids |
N
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Ira Nadel | b. 1943 | biography, literary criticism | Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text, David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre, Tom Stoppard: A Life |
Shenaaz Nanji | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions | |
Akhtar Naraghi | novelist, poet | The Big Green House | |
Angela Narth | b. 1946 | children's author, non-fiction writer | Simon With Two Left Feet |
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 |
Peter C. Newman | b. 1929 | journalist | The Canadian Establishment |
bpNichol | 1944–1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
Hal Niedzviecki | b. 1971 | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too |
Francine Noël | b. 1945 | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie |
Henri Nouwen | 1932–1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
Mary Novik | b. 1945 | novelist | Conceit |
Alden Nowlan | 1933–1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I’m a Stranger Here Myself |
O
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Sheldon Oberman | 1949–2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
Theodore Odrach | 1912–1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror |
Bryan Lee O'Malley | b. 1979 | graphic novelist | Scott Pilgrim |
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 |
Christopher Ondaatje | b. 1933 | writer and publisher | The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867–1967, The Man-eater of Punanai — a Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Kenneth Oppel | b. 1967 | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga |
Stephen Osborne | b. 1947 | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World |
Martha Ostenso | 1900–1963 | novelist, screenwriter | Wild Geese |
P
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
P.K. Page | b. 1916 | poet | |
Erna Paris | literary nonfiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History | |
Gilbert Parker | b. 1862 | novelist | The Seats of the Mighty |
Kevin Patterson | b. 1964 | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between |
Michael Patterson | |||
Raymond M. Patterson | |||
Louise Penny | b. 1958 | mystery writer | Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month |
Sasenarine Persaud | essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet | ||
Len Peterson | |||
Lorne Pierce | 1890–1961 | literary critic | |
Joseph Pivato | b. 1946- | literary critic, writer | Echo: Essays on Other Literature |
Ted Plantos | |||
Daniel Poliquin | |||
Sharon Pollock | b. 1936 | ||
Jacques Poulin | b. 1937 | novelist | Volkswagen Blues |
Christine Pountney | b. 1971 | novelist | Last Chance Texaco |
B.W. Powe | philosopher | A Canada of Light | |
E.J. Pratt | 1883–1964 | poet | |
Steven Price | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness | |
Robert Priest | poet | ||
Kate Pullinger | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing | |
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 | 1953–2009 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music, King Leary |
Pascale Quiviger | b. 1969 | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
R
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Tom Rachman | novelist | The Imperfectionists | |
Thomas Head Raddall | 1903–1994 | novelist | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories |
Gurcharan Rampuri | |||
Edeet Ravel | b. 1955 | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers |
Angela Rawlings | |||
Wayne Ray | short stories | Giants of the North, Going Down Goose Lane Toward Broken Jaw | |
Mark A. Rayner | |||
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 | |
Kati Rekai | b. 1921 | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece | |
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 |
John Richardson | 1796–1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
Daniel Richler | b. 1957 | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow |
Mordecai Richler | 1931–2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version |
Nancy Richler | b. 1957 | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton) | 1895–1960 | novelist | Thirty Acres |
Charles Ritchie | 1906–1995 | diarist | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years |
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860–1943 | poet and novelist | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg |
Ken Roberts | |||
Paul William Roberts | |||
Lisa Robertson | poet | ||
Eden Robinson | novelist | ||
J. Jill Robinson | b. 1955 | short stories, creative nonfiction | Lovely In Her Bones, Residual Desire |
Peter Robinson | b. 1950 | mystery | |
Ajmer Rode | poet, playwright, translator | ||
Spider Robinson | b. 1948 | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon |
Richard Rohmer | b. 1924 | ||
Linda Rogers | |||
Leon Rooke | b. 1934 | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog |
Patrick Roscoe | |||
Simon Rose | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy | |
Rebecca Rosenblum | b. 1978 | short stories | Once |
Sinclair Ross | 1908–1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial |
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
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Michelle Sagara | fantasy | ||
Kerri Sakamoto | novelist | The Electrical Field | |
Trish Salah | poet | Wanting in Arabic | |
G. Herbert Sallans | 1895–1960 | novelist | Little Man |
Rick Salutin | b. 1942 | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith |
Laura G. Salverson | 1890–1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
Mairuth Sarsfield | novelist | No Crystal Stair | |
John Ralston Saul | b. 1947 | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization |
Gloria Sawai | 1932–2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
Robert J. Sawyer | b. 1960 | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax, Calculating God, Flashforward, Rollback" |
Alan Scarfe | b. 1946 | novelist, pseudonym Clanash Farjeon | A Handbook for Attendants on the Insane: the autobiography of Jack the Ripper as revealed to Clanash Farjeon, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Vampires of 9/11, Vampires of the Holy Spirit |
Jacob Scheier | b. 1980 | poet | More to Keep Us Warm |
Libby Scheier | 1946–2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
Diane Schoemperlen | b. 1954 | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion |
Adam Lewis Schroeder | novelist and short story writer | In the Fabled East | |
Andreas Schroeder | |||
Duncan Campbell Scott | 1862–1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
Frank Scott | 1899–1985 | poet | |
Richard Scrimger | children's writer, novelist | ||
Djanet Sears | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | |
Benjamin Sehene | b. 1959 | novelist, essayist, and political writer | |
Sarah Selecky | short stories | This Cake is for the Party | |
Shyam Selvadurai | novelist | Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens | |
Robert W. Service | 1874–1958 | poet | The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
Ernest Thompson Seton | 1860–1946 | ||
Mark Shainblum | |||
Leanne Shapton | graphic novelist | Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry | |
Sarah Sheard | |||
Murphy O. Shewchuk | b. 1943 | writer/photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails - 2006, Coquihalla Trips and Trails - 2007, Cariboo Trips and Trails - 2008 |
Francis Sherman | 1871–1926 | poet | |
Carol Shields | 1935–2003 | novelist, short stories | The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party |
Aki Shimazaki | |||
Maggie Siggins | historian, biography | Riel | |
Antanas Sileika | |||
Makeda Silvera | |||
Judith Silverthorne | b. 1953 | author - non-fiction, children's writer | The Secret of the Stone Circle, Dinosaur Blackout, Dinosaur Stakeout, The Secret of the Stone House |
Merilyn Simonds | journalist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror | |
Colin Simpson | |||
Jaspreet Singh | |||
Johanna Skibsrud | novelist, poet | The Sentimentalists | |
Marsha Skrypuch | |||
Josef Skvorecky | 1924–2012 | novelist, essayist | The Engineer of Human Souls |
Joshua Slocum | 1844–1909 | ||
Carolyn Smart | poet | Hooked | |
Elizabeth Smart | 1913–1986 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | |
Jean Edward Smith | |||
Michael V. Smith | novelist | Cumberland | |
Neil Smith | short stories | Bang Crunch | |
Russell Smith | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent | |
Mary Soderstrom | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond | |
Evan Solomon | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance | |
Madeline Sonik | |||
J. Dewey Soper | 1893–1982 | naturalist | |
Carolyn Marie Souaid | b. 1959 | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood |
Gaétan Soucy | b. 1958 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
Raymond Souster | b. 1921 | poet | |
Esta Spalding | |||
Linda Spalding | |||
Birk Sproxton | b. 1943 | ||
Edna Staebler | |||
Harold Standish | 1919–1972 | poet and novelist | |
Robert Stead | 1880–1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
John Steffler | b. 1947 | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright |
Fred Stenson | |||
Arran Stephens | "The Compassionate Diet" | ||
Richard Stevenson | |||
Shannon Stewart | poet, children's writer | ||
Walter Stewart | 1941–2004 | journalist and editor | |
Bill Stilwell | |||
Kathy Stinson | |||
Anne Stone | |||
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer | screenwriter; novelist | ||
Cordelia Strube | novels, drama | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon | |
Alan Sullivan | 1868–1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
Moez Surani | poet | Reticent Bodies | |
Joel A. Sutherland | novelist, short story writer | Frozen Blood | |
Mary Swan | novelist, short story writer | The Boys in the Trees | |
Susan Swan | |||
Anna Swanson | poet | The Nights Also | |
Robert Sward | |||
Margaret Sweatman | b. 1953 | novelist | Fox, The Players |
George Swede | |||
Alastair Sweeny | |||
Scott Symons | |||
Guy Sylvestre | journalist, critic | ||
Anne Szumigalski | 1922–1999 | poet | Voice |
T
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|
Shelley Tanaka | editor, children's nonfiction writer | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic | |
Cheryl Kaye Tardif | b. 1963 | novelist, short story writer, nonfiction | Whale Song, The River, Divine Intervention, Skeletons in the Closet, Lancelot's Lady (writing as Cherish D'Angelo) |
Jules-Paul Tardivel | |||
Timothy Taylor | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park | |
Ningeokuluk Teevee | b. 1963 | children's writer | Alego |
Wayne Tefs | |||
Charles Templeton | 1915–2001 | ||
John Terpstra | poet | ||
Bill Terry | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven | |
Denis Thériault | |||
Yves Thériault | 1915–1983 | novelist, short story writer | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
Sharon Thesen | b. 1946 | poet | The Good Bacteria |
Madeleine Thien | short story writer, novelist | Certainty | |
Audrey Thomas | b. 1935 | novelist | Coming Down from Wa |
John Thompson | |||
Elizabeth Thornton | |||
Kim Thúy | b. 1968 | novelist | Ru |
Miriam Toews | novelist | A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans | |
Morley Torgov | b. 1927 | ||
Lola Lemire Tostevin | |||
Catharine Parr Traill | 1802–1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
Rhea Tregebov | b. 1953 | poet | Remembering History |
Lise Tremblay | |||
Michel Tremblay | b. 1942 | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs |
Karen X. Tulchinsky | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature | |
Élise Turcotte | |||
Michael Turner | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo |
U
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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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 |
David UU (David W. Harris) | 1948–1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |
V
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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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 | Becoming Human |
M. G. Vassanji | b. 1950- | 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 |
Robert Verdun | non-fiction / investigstive reporting | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada | |
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 |
Garth Von Buchholz | b. 1968 | poetry, drama, dark fiction, non fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems |
W
Fred Wah | b. 1939 | poet, novelist | Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poetry, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
David Walker | 1911–1992 | novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
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 |
Eric Walters | b. 1957 | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run |
Russell Wangersky | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, The Glass Harmonica | |
Sabrina Ward Harrison | b. 1975 | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself |
Dianne Warren | b. 1950 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water |
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 | |
Merrily Weisbord | journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror | |
Elizabeth Wellburn | children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
Zachariah Wells | b. 1976 | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
Andrew Westoll | science, travel | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery | |
Robert Paul Weston | b. 1975 | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City |
Michael Wex | b. 1954 | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
Dawud Wharnsby | b. 1972 | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
Thomas Wharton | b. 1963 | novelist | Salamander, Icefields |
Rudy Wiebe | b. 1934 | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear |
Eric Wilson | mystery | ||
Ethel Wilson | 1888–1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
John Wilson | b. 1951 | historical fiction | Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning |
Robert Charles Wilson | b.1953 | science fiction writer | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin |
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 | |
Kathleen Winter | novelist, short stories | boYs, Annabel | |
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 | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
Susan Wood | 1948–1980 | author, critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | Energumen; criticism |
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 | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
Tim Wynveen | novelist | Angel Falls, Balloon |
X
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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Xiaowen Zeng | journalist, short stories |
Y
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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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 |
Graham Yost | b. 1959 | screenwriter | Speed |
David Young | b. 1946 | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn |
d'bi young | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story | |
Scott Young | 1918–2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mystery writer | A Writer's Life, "Murder in a Cold Climate" |
Z
Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
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David Zieroth | b. 1946 | poet | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn |
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
Further reading
- Stouck, David (1988), Major Canadian authors : a critical introduction to Canadian literature in English (2nd ed.), University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-4119-4
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External links
- Introduction - Canadian Writers - Library and Archives Canada
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