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List of Canadian writers

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 ==A==

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
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
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
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

B

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
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	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, 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
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

C

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
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

D

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
Anthony De Sa		novelist, short story writer	Barnacle Love
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

E

Name	Lifetime	books	notable books
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

F

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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

G

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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

H

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
Claire Harris	b. 1937
Marjorie Harris
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
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

I

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
Suzanne Jacob	b. 1953	novelist, poet	Laura Laur, La Part de feu
J. Robert Janes	b. 1932	mystery	Johnson Wayne
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
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

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
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
Jean Little	b. 1932	novelist	Mine for Keeps
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

M

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Rozena Maart	b. 1962	novelist, short stories	Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle
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
Maggie MacDonald
Gwendolyn MacEwen	1941-1987	poet
Rory Maclean	b. 1954
Hugh MacLennan	1907-1990	novelist and essayist	Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising
Matt MacLennan
Michael MacLennan
Alistair MacLeod	b. 1936	novelist, short stories	No Great Mischief
Elizabeth Macleod		biographer
Rick Maddocks		short stories	Sputnik Diner
Antonine Maillet	b. 1929	novelist, playwright	La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charette
Kevin Major	b. 1949
Eli Mandel
David Manicom	b. 1960	poet, novelist
Lee Maracle	b. 1950	poet, novelist
Daphne Marlatt	b. 1942
Paul Marlowe
John Marlyn	1912-1985
David Margoshes	b. 1941
Nicole Markotic
Yann Martel	b. 1963	novelist, short story writer	The 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"
David McFadden
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon)	1902-1977	children's literature	The Hardy Boys
James McIntyre	1827-1906	poet
Ami McKay			The Birth House
Don McKay
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
John Melady
Judith Merril
John Metcalf	b. 1938
Anne Michaels		poet, novelist	Fugitive Pieces
Roy Miki
Ron Miksha	b. 1954		Bad Beekeeping
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
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
Donna Morrissey
Kim Morrissey
Colin Morton
Daniel David Moses		poet and playwright
Tara Moss	b. 1973		Fetish
Erin Mouré		poet
Farley Mowat	b. 1921	novelist, naturalist	Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
Robert Munsch	b. 1945	children's literature
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
Elizabeth Murphy	1958	novelist	''An Imperfect Librarian
John Murrell		playwright
Susan Musgrave	b. 1951	poet and novelist	Cargo of Orchids

N

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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

O

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
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
Thomas Raddall	1903-1994	novelist
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
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
Simon Rose		science fiction and fantasy novelist	The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy
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

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Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Michelle Sagara		fantasy
Kerri Sakamoto		novelist	The Electrical Field
Rick Salutin	b. 1942	columnist, novelist	A Man of Little Faith
Mairuth Sarsfield		novelist	No Crystal Stair
John Ralston Saul	b. 1947	essayist, philosopher	The Unconscious Civilization
Gloria Sawai
Robert J. Sawyer	b. 1960	science fiction	The Neanderthal Parallax
Diane Schoemperlen
Andreas Schroeder
Alvin Schwartz
Frank Scott	1899-1985	poet
Djanet Sears		playwright	The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
Benjamin Sehene	b. 1959	novelist, essayist, and political writer
Shyam Selvadurai		novelist	Funny Boy, Cinammon Gardens
Robert W. Service	1874-1958	poet	The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Ernest Thompson Seton	1860-1946
Mark Shainblum
Sarah Sheard
Murphy O. Shewchuk
Carol Shields	1935-2003	novelist, short stories	The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party
Aki Shimazaki
Maggie Siggins		historian, biography	Riel
Antanas Sileika
Makeda Silvera
Merilyn Simonds		journalist	The Convict Lover
Colin Simpson
Jaspreet Singh
Marsha Skrypuch
Josef Skvorecky	b. 1924	novelist, essayist	The Engineer of Human Souls
Joshua Slocum	1844-1909
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
Evan Solomon		journalist, novelist	Crossing the Distance
Madeline Sonik
J. Dewey Soper	1893-1982	naturalist
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
Fred Stenson
Richard Stevenson
Shannon Stewart		poet, children's writer
Walter Stewart	1941-2004	journalist and editor
Kathy Stinson
Anne Stone
Mary Swan		novelist, short story writer	The Boys in the Trees
Susan Swan
Robert Sward
Margaret Sweatman
George Swede
Alastair Sweeny
Scott Symons
Guy Sylvestre		journalist, critic
Anne Szumigalski	1922-1999	poet	Voice

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Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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

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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
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

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