This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Irving Abella | 1940 | 2022 | historian | None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 |
Louise Abbott | 1950 | non fiction author, photographer, filmmaker | The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence | |
Mark Abley | 1955 | poet, journalist | Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages | |
Carolyn Abraham | 1968 | journalist, non-fiction | Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Eistein's Brain, The Juggler's Children: A Journey Into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us | |
Marianne Ackerman | 1952 | playwright, novelist, journalist | ||
Janice Acoose | 1954 | 2020 | journalist | Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak |
Milton Acorn | 1923 | 1986 | poet | The Island Means Minago |
José Acquelin | 1956 | poet | Anarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable | |
Ken Adachi | 1929 | 1989 | historian, critic | The Enemy That Never Was |
Barry D. Adam | 1952 | sociologist | ||
Evan Adams | 1966 | dramatist | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River | |
Ian Adams | 1937 | 2021 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence |
Mary Electa Adams | 1823 | 1898 | poet | From Distant Shores |
Gil Adamson | 1961 | novelist, short stories, poet | The Outlander | |
Caroline Adderson | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice | |
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake | ||
Marie-Célie Agnant | 1953 | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang | |
Freda Ahenakew | 1932 | 2011 | linguist, children's literature | |
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | novelist, short stories | Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Kate Aitken | 1891 | 1971 | journalist, cooking enthusiast | Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book |
Kelley Aitken | 1954 | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate | |
Will Aitken | 1949 | novelist, journalist | Terre Haute, Realia | |
Donald Akenson | 1941 | novelist, historian | ||
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm | 1965 | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet | |
Omar El Akkad | 1982 | novelist | American War, What Strange Paradise | |
Linda Aksomitis | 1954 | children's literature | Adeline's Dream | |
Kamal Al-Solaylee | 1964 | journalist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes | |
Donald Alarie | 1945 | poet | Jérôme et les mots | |
Robert Arthur Alexie | 1957 | 2014 | novelist | Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian |
André Alexis | 1957 | novelist, journalist, short stories | Childhood, Asylum, Pastoral | |
Edna Alford | 1947 | poet | ||
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | 1985 | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy | |
Nada Alic | short stories | Bad Thoughts | ||
Sandra Alland | 1973 | poet, journalist | ||
Donna Allard | 1956 | poet | ||
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) |
1941 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | ||
Grant Allen | 1848 | 1899 | science writer, novelist | The Woman Who Did |
Harper Allen | romantic fiction | |||
Lillian Allen | 1951 | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes | |
Ralph Allen | 1913 | 1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
Robert Thomas Allen | 1911 | 1990 | humorist, children's literature | The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life |
Tom Allen | 1964 | creative non-fiction | Rolling Home | |
Paul Almond | 1931 | 2015 | novelist, screenwriter | |
Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951 | 2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
Lisa Alward | 1962 | short stories | Cocktail | |
George Amabile | 1936 | poet | ||
William Lacey Amy | 1877 | 1962 | writer | 'Blue Pete' series |
Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard) | 1906 | 1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
Marguerite Andersen | 1924 | 2022 | poet | Courts métrages et instantanés |
Debra Anderson | novelist, playwright | Code White | ||
Doris Anderson | 1921 | 2007 | journalist | The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter |
Enza Anderson | 1964 | journalist | ||
Gordon Stewart Anderson | 1958 | 1991 | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
Hugh Anderson | 1890 | 1965 | playwright | Auld Lang Syne |
Patrick Anderson | 1915 | 1979 | poet | |
Rod Anderson | 1935 | poet, accounting texts | ||
Trevor Anderson | 1972 | screenwriter | ||
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | 1963 | novelist | The Cure for Death by Lightning | |
Maryse Andraos | 1988 | novelist | Sans refuge | |
Michael Andre | 1946 | poet | ||
François-Réal Angers | 1812 | 1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
Vincent Anioke | short stories | Perfect Little Angels | ||
Trey Anthony | 1974 | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair | |
Salvatore Antonio | 1976 | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen | |
Marianne Apostolides | novelist, memoirist | Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure | ||
Lisa Appignanesi | 1946 | novelist, biographer | Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir | |
Emmanuel Aquin | 1968 | novelist | ||
Hubert Aquin | 1929 | 1977 | novelist | Prochain épisode |
Nelly Arcan | 1973 | 2009 | novelist | Putain |
Gilles Archambault | 1933 | novelist | L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions | |
Bert Archer | 1968 | journalist, essayist | The End of Gay | |
Richard Arès | 1910 | 1989 | ||
Tammy Armstrong | 1974 | novelist, poet | Bogman's Music | |
Jeannette Armstrong | 1948 | novelist, poet | Slash | |
Kelley Armstrong | 1968 | horror fiction | Women of the Otherworld | |
Rebecca Agatha Armour | 1845 | 1891 | novelist, local historian | Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton |
David Arnason | 1940 | poet, novelist, historian | The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg | |
Daniel Arnold | playwright, screenwriter | Lawrence & Holloman, Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience | ||
Joanne Arnott | 1960 | poet, children's literature | Wiles of Girlhood | |
Lawrence Aronovitch | 1974 | playwright | ||
Nina Arsenault | 1974 | |||
Ryad Assani-Razaki | 1981 | novels, short stories | Deux cercles, La main d'Iman | |
Bernard Assiniwi | 1935 | 2000 | novelist, essayist, journalist | La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde |
Damien Atkins | 1975 | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project | |
Diana Atkinson | 1964 | novelist | Highways and Dancehalls | |
Margaret Atwood | 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 | |
Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot) | 1947 | 2012 | novelist, short stories | Cet imperceptible mouvement |
Jean-Paul Audet | 1918 | 1993 | theologian | |
Noël Audet | 1938 | 2005 | poet, novelist | Ah, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier |
Larry Audlaluk | 1953 | memoirist | What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile | |
Ashley Audrain | 1982 | novelist | ||
Jonathan Auxier | 1981 | young adult literature | The Night Gardener | |
François Avard | 1968 | screenwriter | Les Bougon | |
Susan Avingaq | 1942 | screenwriter, children's literature | Before Tomorrow, Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil | |
Margaret Avison | 1918 | 2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
Mona Awad | 1978 | novelist, short stories | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | |
Edem Awumey | 1975 | novelist | Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales | |
Makram Ayache | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer | ||
Malcolm Azania | 1969 | science fiction | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | |
Caroline Azar | playwright | The Surreal Detective |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Todd Babiak | novelist | The Garneau Block | ||
Ken Babstock | 1970 | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht | |
Mette Bach | novelist, screenwriter | |||
Elizabeth Bachinsky | 1976 | poet | ||
Aaron Badgley | 1964 | non-fiction, biographer | Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label | |
Britta Badour | poet | Wires That Sputter | ||
Bruce Bagemihl | 1962 | science | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | |
Pierre Baillargeon | 1916 | 1967 | novelist | Le scandale est nécessaire |
Martha Baillie | 1960 | novelist | The Incident Report | |
Irene Baird | 1901 | 1981 | novelist, poetry, journalist | Waste Heritage |
Jacqueline Baker | 1967 | novelist, short stories | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours | |
R. Scott Bakker | 1967 | fantasy | Prince of Nothing | |
Sharon Bala | 1979 | novelist, short stories | The Boat People | |
Shauna Singh Baldwin | 1962 | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw | |
John Ballem | 1925 | 2010 | novelist | |
Winifred Bambrick | 1892 | 1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
Catherine Banks | c.1960 | playwright | Bone Cage | |
Himani Bannerji | 1942 | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism | |
Kaushalya Bannerji | poet | |||
Gary Bannerman | 1947 | 2011 | non-fiction | Squandering Billions |
Nick Bantock | 1949 | novelist | Griffin and Sabine | |
Simina Banu | poet | Pop | ||
Marius Barbeau | 1883 | 1969 | academic, folklorist | |
Raymond Barbeau | 1930 | 1992 | essayist, literary critic | |
Victor Barbeau | 1896 | 1994 | ||
Bruce Barber | 1950 | art critic | Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State | |
Joan Barfoot | 1946 | novelist | Dancing in the Dark, Luck | |
Keith Barker | playwright | The Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here | ||
Leslie Gordon Barnard | 1890 | 1961 | short stories, fiction | |
Robert Barr | 1849 | 1912 | novelist, short stories, humorist | The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
Laurent Barré | 1886 | 1964 | novelist | |
Joelle Barron | poet | Ritual Lights | ||
James Bartleman | 1939 | 2023 | memoirist, young adult literature | Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow |
John Barton | 1957 | poet | Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis | |
Gary Barwin | 1964 | novelist, children's literature, poet | Seeing Stars | |
Earl W. Bascom | 1906 | 1995 | cowboy historian | The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding |
Rodrigo Bascunan | 1976 | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System | |
Jean Basile | 1932 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
Michel Basilières | 1960 | novelist | Black Bird | |
Gurjinder Basran | novelist | Everything Was Good-bye | ||
Karen Bass | 1962 | young adult fiction | Graffiti Knight | |
Frédéric Bastien | 1972 | historian, journalist | La Bataille de Londres | |
Arjun Basu | novelist, short stories | Squishy, Waiting for the Man | ||
Andrew Battershill | novelist | Pillow | ||
Claire Battershill | short stories | Circus | ||
Bill Bauer | 1932 | 2010 | poet | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
Nancy Bauer | 1934 | arts journalist | Flora, Write This Down | |
Jeremy Bates | 1978 | novelist (suspense/horror) | Suicide Forest | |
Eli Baxter | 1954 | memoirist | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | |
Kevin Bazzana | 1963 | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould | |
Tara Beagan | 1975 | playwright | Thy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace | |
Yves Beauchemin | 1941 | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou | |
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | 1945 | novelist, playwright | ||
Doug Beardsley | 1941 | poet | Dancing Star | |
Jeann Beattie | 1922 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Blaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps |
Deni Ellis Béchard | 1974 | novelist | Vandal Love | |
Peter Behrens | 1954 | novelist, screenwriter, short-stories | The Law of Dreams | |
Henry Beissel | 1929 | non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator | Under Coyote's Eye | |
Jennifer Bélanger | 1991 | novelist | Menthol | |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | poet, memoirist | This Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body | ||
Ken Belford | 1946 | 2020 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains |
Donald Bell | 1937 | 2003 | journalist, humorist | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
William E. Bell | 1945 | 2016 | children's literature | Forbidden City |
Winthrop Pickard Bell | 1884 | 1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
Lesley Belleau | poet | Indianland | ||
Martin Bellemare | playwright | Le chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral | ||
Paul Bellini | 1959 | screenwriter, comedy | ||
John Bemrose | 1947 | journalist, novelist, playwright, poet | The Island Walkers | |
Gwen Benaway | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage | ||
Djemila Benhabib | 1972 | journalist, non-fiction | Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes | |
Nigel Bennett | 1949 | fantasy novelist | Keeper of the King, His Father's Son | |
Roxanna Bennett | poet | Unmeaningable | ||
David Bergen | 1957 | novelist | The Time in Between, A Year of Lesser | |
S. Bear Bergman | 1974 | playwright, poet | ||
David Berman | 1962 | non-fiction | Do Good Design | |
Christophe Bernard | 1982 | novelist | La bête creuse | |
Jovette Bernier | 1900 | 1981 | journalist, novelist, poet | Non Monsieur |
Sarah Bernstein | 1987 | novelist | Study for Obedience | |
Kris Bertin | short stories | Bad Things Happen | ||
Pierre Berton | 1920 | 2004 | historian, journalist, memoirist | The National Dream, The Last Spike |
Dennison Berwick | 1956 | adventure travel | 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 | ||
Shashi Bhat | novelist, short stories | The Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth | ||
Dave Bidini | 1963 | journalist, non-fiction, songwriter | Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey | |
Anthony Bidulka | 1962 | mysteries | Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu | |
Nicolas Billon | 1978 | playwright, screenwriter | The Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher | |
Pierre Billon | 1937 | novelist, screenwriter | ||
Brandi Bird | poet | The All + Flesh | ||
Will R. Bird | 1891 | 1984 | novelist, non-fiction | Here Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen |
Sandra Birdsell | 1942 | novelist, short stories | The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf | |
Earle Birney | 1904 | 1995 | poet, novelist, playwright, short stories | David and Other Poems, Turvey |
Charlotte Biron | 1990 | novelist | Jardin radio | |
Carol Bishop-Gwyn | biographer, arts journalist | The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca | ||
Bill Bissett | 1939 | experimental poet | nobody owns th earth | |
Lise Bissonnette | 1945 | novelist, journalist | Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus | |
Neil Bissoondath | 1955 | novelist | A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions | |
Persimmon Blackbridge | 1951 | non-fiction, novelist | Prozac Highway | |
George G. Blackburn | 1917 | 2006 | creative non-fiction | The Guns of Normandy |
Marthe Blackburn | 1916 | 1991 | screenwriter, dramatist | A Scream from Silence, Beyond Forty, Le retour de l’âge |
Peggy Blair | non-fiction, novelist | Lament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera | ||
Marie-Claire Blais | 1939 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, La Belle Bête |
Clark Blaise | 1940 | novelist, short stories, memoirist | Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories | |
Cassandra Blanchard | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes | ||
Robin Blaser | 1925 | 2009 | essayist, poet | |
Christie Blatchford | 1951 | 2020 | journalist, writer and broadcaster | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army |
Lance Blomgren | 1970 | short stories, essays | Walkups, Corner Pieces | |
Patricia Blondal | 1926 | 1959 | fiction, poet | A Candle to Light the Sun |
Lise Blouin | 1944 | novelist | L'Ors des fous | |
Michael Blouin | 1960 | novelist, poet | Chase and Haven, Wore Down Trust | |
Martha Blum | 1913 | 2007 | historical fiction | The Walnut Tree, The Apothecary |
Giles Blunt | 1952 | mysteries, screenwriter | Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season | |
Ali Blythe | poet | Twoism | ||
Selina Boan | poet | Undoing Hours | ||
Adam Bock | 1961 | playwright | The Receptionist, The Drunken City | |
Dennis Bock | 1964 | novelist, short stories | The Ash Garden | |
Maxime Raymond Bock | 1981 | novelist, short stories | Atavismes, Les noyades secondaires | |
Michel Bock | 1971 | historian, non-fiction | Quand la nation débordait les frontières | |
Fred Bodsworth | 1918 | 2012 | journalist, naturalist | The Last of the Curlews |
Christian Bök | 1966 | poet | Eunoia | |
Stephanie Bolster | 1969 | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
Carol Bolt | 1941 | 2000 | playwright | Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists |
Kenneth Bonert | 1972 | novelist, short stories | The Lion Seeker | |
Shane Book | poet | Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic | ||
Walter Borden | 1942 | playwright, poet | ||
Kathryn Borel | 1979 | memoirist | Corked | |
Roo Borson | 1952 | poet | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | |
Monique Bosco | 1927 | 2007 | journalist, novelist, poet, short stories | La femme de Loth |
Gérard Bouchard | 1943 | non-fiction, novelist | Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde | |
Michel Marc Bouchard | 1958 | playwright | Lilies, The Orphan Muses | |
Paul Bouchard | 1908 | 1997 | journalist | |
Eddy Boudel Tan | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide | ||
Marsha Boulton | 1952 | humorist, journalist | Letters from the Country | |
Hédi Bouraoui | 1932 | poet, novelist | Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes | |
Pierre Bourgault | 1934 | 2003 | essayist, journalist | |
Arthur Bourinot | 1893 | 1969 | poet | Under the Sun |
Pan Bouyoucas | 1946 | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea | |
Gail Bowen | 1942 | novelist, playwright | Joanne Kilbourn series | |
George Bowering | 1935 | biographer, novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water | |
Marilyn Bowering | 1949 | poet, novelist, playwright | Visible Worlds, Autobiography | |
Cedar Bowers | novelist, short stories | Astra | ||
Bonnie Bowman | novelist | Skin | ||
Randy Boyagoda | 1976 | novelist, non-fiction | Governor of the Northern Province | |
David Boyd | 1951 | children's literature | Bottom Drawer | |
George Boyd | 1952 | 2020 | playwright, screenwriter | Consecrated Ground |
Joseph Boyden | 1966 | novelist, short stories | Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda | |
Frances Boyle | poet, short stories | Seeking Shade | ||
Harry J. Boyle | 1915 | 2005 | humorist, novelist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
D. M. Bradford | poet | Dream of No One But Myself | ||
Karleen Bradford | 1936 | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves | |
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite | 1963 | 2008 | essayist, novelist, poet | |
Max Braithwaite | 1911 | 1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
Shannon Bramer | 1973 | poet | The Refrigerator Memory | |
Alan Bradley | 1938 | mystery | Flavia de Luce series | |
Dionne Brand | 1953 | essayist, novelist, poet | What We All Long For, Land to Light On | |
Di Brandt | 1952 | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care | |
Beth Brant | 1941 | 2015 | ||
André Brassard | 1946 | screenwriter | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard | |
Marie Brassard | playwright | |||
Jacques Brault | 1933 | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin | |
Lois Braun | 1949 | short stories | A Stone Watermelon | |
Morwyn Brebner | playwright, television writer | Music for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope, Rookie Blue | ||
Brian Brett | 1950 | novelist, memoirist, poet | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden | |
Krista Bridge | novelist, short stories | The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls | ||
Robert Bringhurst | 1946 | poet, author, typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major | |
Barry Broadfoot | 1926 | 2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
Hélène Brodeur | 1923 | 2010 | historical fiction | Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario |
Eve Brodlique | 1867 | 1949 | author, journalist | A Training School for Lovers |
David Bromige | 1933 | 2009 | poet | My Poetry |
Frances Brooke | 1724 | 1789 | novelist, essayist | The History of Emily Montague |
Bertram Brooker | 1888 | 1955 | novelist, artist | Think of the Earth |
Carellin Brooks | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach | ||
Nicole Brossard | 1943 | novelist, poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse | |
Chrystine Brouillet | 1958 | novelist, children's literature | ||
Sigmund Brouwer | 1959 | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! | |
Charles Tory Bruce | 1906 | 1971 | poet, novelist, journalist | The Mulgrave Road |
Julie Bruck | 1957 | poet | The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch | |
Tyler Brûlé | 1968 | journalist | ||
Gaétan Brulotte | 1945 | academic, novelist, playwright, short stories | ||
Nick Brune | 1952 | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture | |
Carol Bruneau | 1956 | novelist | Purple for Sky | |
Louis-Ovide Brunet | 1826 | 1876 | botany | |
Michel Brunet | 1917 | 1985 | historian | Les Canadiens après la conquête |
Cathy Marie Buchanan | 1963 | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls | |
Ernest Buckler | 1908 | 1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
Margaret Buffie | 1945 | children's literature | Who Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher | |
Gilbert Buote | 1833 | 1904 | journalist | |
Kayt Burgess | novelist | Heidegger Stairwell | ||
Tony Burgess | 1959 | novelist, screenwriter | Pontypool Changes Everything | |
Nathan Burgoine | novelist, short stories | Light | ||
Ronnie Burkett | 1957 | playwright | Tinka's New Dress | |
Mabel Burkholder | 1881 | 1973 | historian | Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories |
Bonnie Burnard | 1945 | 2017 | novelist | A Good House |
Murdoch Burnett | 1953 | 2015 | poet | Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans |
Richard Burnett | journalist | |||
Lawrence J. Burpee | 1873 | 1946 | historian | The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History |
Mick Burrs | 1940 | 2021 | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob |
Frank Christopher Busch | 1978 | novelist | Grey Eyes | |
Catherine Bush | 1961 | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement | |
Arthur de Bussières | 1877 | 1913 | poet | Les Bengalis |
Sharon Butala | 1940 | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning | |
Alec Butler | 1959 | playwright | Black Friday | |
Michelle Butler Hallett | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | This Marlowe, Constant Nobody |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Charmaine Cadeau | poet | Placeholder | ||
Cody Caetano | memoirist | Half-Bads in White Regalia | ||
Frank Oliver Call | 1878 | 1956 | poet, travel | Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth |
Barry Callaghan | 1937 | novelist, journalist | Barrelhouse Kings | |
Morley Callaghan | 1903 | 1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
Anne Cameron | 1938 | novelist, poet, short stories | Daughters of Copper Woman | |
Elspeth Cameron | 1943 | biographer | No Previous Experience | |
George Frederick Cameron | 1854 | 1885 | poet, lawyer, journalist | Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta) |
Silver Donald Cameron | 1937 | 2020 | non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist | Sailing Away From Winter |
Curtis Campbell | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay | ||
Grace Campbell | 1895 | 1963 | novelist | Thorn-apple Tree |
Nicola I. Campbell | poetry, children's literature, memoir | Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe | ||
Natalee Caple | 1970 | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World | |
Pat Capponi | 1949 | 2020 | memoirist, mystery novelist | Upstairs in the Crazy House |
Cliff Cardinal | playwright | The Land Acknowledgement | ||
Opal Carew | 1956 | romantic novelist | His To Possess | |
Dave Carley | 1953 | playwright | Writing With Our Feet | |
Louis Carmain | 1983 | novelist | Guano | |
Bliss Carman | 1861 | 1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
Jean-François Caron | 1978 | poet, novelist | De bois debout | |
Louis Caron | 1942 | novelist, television | L'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume | |
David Carpenter | 1941 | novelist, poet, essayist | A Hunter's Confession | |
Emily Carr | 1871 | 1945 | novelist, short stories | Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands |
Roch Carrier | 1937 | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey | |
Anne Carson | 1950 | poet | Autobiography of Red | |
Anne Laurel Carter | 1953 | children's fiction | The Shepherd's Granddaughter | |
Allan Casey | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada | ||
Kate Cayley | novelist, dramatist, poet | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova | ||
Denys Chabot | 1945 | novelist, historian | L'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire | |
Sébastien Chabot | 1976 | novelist | Noir métal | |
Éric Chacour | 1983 | novelist | Ce que je sais de toi | |
Perry Chafe | 1969 | television writer, novelist | Republic of Doyle, Closer by Sea | |
Robert Chafe | 1971 | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence | |
Soufiane Chakkouche | 1977 | novelist | Zahra | |
Francis Chalifour | 1977 | creative non-fiction | After | |
Gillian Chan | 1954 | children's literature | Glory Days and Other Stories | |
Robert Charbonneau | 1911 | 1967 | novelist | Ils posséderont la terre, Fontile |
David Chariandy | 1969 | novelist | Soucouyant, Brother | |
Lyne Charlebois | screenwriter | Borderline | ||
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682 | 1761 | historian | Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France |
Normand Chaurette | 1954 | playwright | Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier | |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | 1975 | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar | |
Herménégilde Chiasson | 1946 | poet, playwright | Conversations | |
Philip Child | 1898 | 1978 | novelist | Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time |
Anne Chislett | 1942 | playwright | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box | |
Ann Y. K. Choi | author | Kay's Lucky Coin Variety | ||
Ins Choi | 1974 | playwright | Kim's Convenience | |
Gabriel Cholette | memoirist | Carnets de l'underground | ||
Corinna Chong | novelist, short stories | Bad Land | ||
Denise Chong | 1953 | memoirist | The Concubine's Children | |
Kevin Chong | 1975 | novelist, memoirist | My Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity | |
Wayson Choy | 1939 | 2019 | novelist, memoirist | The Jade Peony, All That Matters, Paper Shadows |
Lesley Choyce | 1951 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | The Republic of Nothing | |
Michael Christie | short stories | The Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die | ||
Jane Christmas | 1954 | travel, memoirist | And Then There Were Nuns | |
S. D. Chrostowska | novelist, non-fiction, aphorist | Permission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book | ||
Eliza Clark | 1963 | novelist | Bite the Stars | |
Greg Clark | 1892 | 1977 | humorist | War Stories |
Joan Clark | 1934 | 2023 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires |
Austin Clarke | 1934 | 2016 | novelist | The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack |
George Elliott Clarke | 1960 | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls, George and Rue, Black | |
Stéfanie Clermont | 1988 | novelist | Le jeu de la musique | |
David Clerson | 1978 | novelist | Frères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête | |
Mabel Clint | 1874 | 1939 | novelist, nurse | Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister |
Fabien Cloutier | 1976 | dramatist | Pour réussir un poulet | |
Lynn Coady | 1970 | novelist | Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven, Hellgoing | |
Mark Coakley | true crime | Tip and Trade | ||
Devon Code | novelist, short stories | In a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Lisa Codrington | playwright | Cast Iron, Up the Garden Path | ||
Fred Cogswell | 1917 | 2004 | poet | |
Leonard Cohen | 1934 | 2016 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter | Beautiful Losers |
Matt Cohen | 1942 | 1999 | novelist | Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After |
Susan G. Cole | 1952 | journalist | Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography | |
Trevor Cole | 1960 | novelist | The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean | |
Anne Coleman | creative non-fiction | I'll Tell You a Secret | ||
Layne Coleman | playwright | Blue City Slammers | ||
Victor Coleman | 1944 | poet | ||
Don Coles | 1927 | 2017 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World |
Ruth Collie | 1888 | 1936 | poet | Known as the Poem a Day Lady |
John Robert Colombo | 1936 | poet, reference book compiler | Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References | |
Daria Colonna | 1989 | poet | Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse | |
Wayde Compton | 1972 | poet, essays, short fiction | ||
Bill Conall | novelist, humorist | The Promised Land | ||
Christy Ann Conlin | novelist, short stories | Heave, The Memento, Watermark | ||
Jan Conn | 1952 | poet, insect geneticist | South of the Tudo Bem Cafe | |
Karen Connelly | 1969 | travel, novelist, poet | Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage | |
Kevin Connolly | 1962 | poet, editor | Drift, Revolver | |
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon) | 1860 | 1937 | novelist, essayist | The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot |
Darla Contois | playwright | The War Being Waged | ||
George Ramsay Cook | 1931 | 2016 | historian | |
Hugh Cook | 1942 | novelist | ||
Michael Cook | 1933 | 1994 | playwright | Jacob's Wake |
Tim Cook | 1971 | military historian | Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918, No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War | |
Dennis Cooley | 1944 | poet | Irene | |
Beverley Cooper | playwright | Thin Ice, Innocence Lost | ||
Douglas Cooper | 1960 | novelist | Amnesia, Delirium | |
Paige Cooper | short stories | Zolitude | ||
Ann Copeland | 1932 | short stories | The Golden Thread | |
Judith Copithorne | 1939 | poet | ||
Carole Corbeil | 1952 | 2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | 1985 | playwright | Scratch | |
Amanda Cordner | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | ||
David Cormican | 1981 | screenwriter, producer | Northern Rescue, Réveillon | |
Michael Cormican | 1948 | 2023 | author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse | A Long Way From Tipperary |
Thomas B. Costain | 1885 | 1965 | historical fiction, non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice |
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave | 1890 | 1971 | non-fiction | Afterthoughts of Armageddon |
Douglas Coupland | 1961 | novelist | Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma | |
Kevin Courrier | 1954 | 2018 | biographer, music and film critic | Randy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream |
Maya Cousineau Mollen | 1975 | poet | Bréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen | |
Saros Cowasjee | 1931 | 2019 | novelist | Goodbye to Elsa |
Hugh Cowan | 1867 | 1943 | historian | Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814 |
James Alexander Cowan | 1901 | 1978 | writer, columnist | |
Daniel Allen Cox | 1976 | novelist | Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In | |
Ivan Coyote | 1969 | spoken-word poet, columnist | Bow Grip | |
Archie Crail | 1944 | playwright, short stories | Exile, The Bonus Deal | |
Isabella Valancy Crawford | 1846 | 1887 | poet, freelance | Old Spookses' Pass |
Donald Creighton | 1902 | 1979 | historian | John A. Macdonald |
Luella Creighton | 1901 | 1996 | historical fiction, children's non-fiction | High Bright Buggy Wheels |
Octave Crémazie | 1827 | 1879 | poet | |
Eva Crocker | short stories | Barrelling Forward | ||
Lynn Crosbie | 1963 | poet, novelist | Life Is About Losing Everything | |
Lorna Crozier | 1948 | poet | Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light | |
Michael Crummey | 1965 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents | |
Nancy Jo Cullen | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary | ||
Alan Cumyn | 1960 | novelist | The Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia | |
Peter Cureton | 1965 | 1994 | playwright | Passages |
Andrea Curtis | creative non-fiction | Into the Blue | ||
Herb Curtis | 1949 | novelist, humorist | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles | |
Kayla Czaga | 1989 | poet | For Your Safety Please Hold On |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Antonio D'Alfonso | 1953 | poet, novelist, bilingual writer | The Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout | |
Michel Dallaire | 1957 | 2017 | novelist, poet | Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne |
Roméo Dallaire | 1946 | documentarian, memoirist, activist | Shake Hands with the Devil, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children | |
Anne Dandurand | 1953 | novelist | ||
Louis Dantin | 1865 | 1945 | poet, critic | Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques |
Jean-Paul Daoust | 1946 | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva | |
Peter Darbyshire | novelist | Please | ||
Jill Daum | playwright | Forget About Tomorrow | ||
Frank Davey | 1940 | poet | ||
Craig Davidson | 1976 | novelist, short stories | Rust and Bone, Cataract City | |
True Davidson | 1901 | 1978 | poet, fiction, non-fiction | The Golden Strings |
Blodwen Davies | 1897 | 1966 | historian | A Study of Tom Thomson |
Lynn Davies | 1954 | poet | The Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools | |
Robertson Davies | 1913 | 1995 | novelist | Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone |
Lauren B. Davis | 1955 | novelist, short stories | Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market | |
Amber Dawn | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa | ||
Caroline Dawson | 1979 | 2024 | novelist, poet, children's literature | Là où je me terre |
Nicholas Dawson | 1982 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure | |
Frank Parker Day | 1881 | 1950 | novelist | Rockbound, John Paul's Rock |
Claire Dé | 1953 | novelist, short stories | Bonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel | |
Alfred Duclos DeCelles | 1843 | 1925 | journalist, librarian | The 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion |
Mazo de la Roche | 1879 | 1961 | novelist | Jalna |
Charles de Lint | 1951 | fantasy | ||
Elisabeth de Mariaffi | short stories, poet | How to Get Along With Women | ||
Sadiqa de Meijer | 1977 | short stories, poet | Leaving Howe Island | |
James de Mille | 1833 | 1880 | novelist | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939 |
Marq de Villiers | 1940 | journalist, magazine editor, science | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource | |
Anthony de Sa | novelist, short stories | Barnacle Love | ||
Patrick deWitt | 1975 | novelist | The Sisters Brothers | |
Michael Delisle | 1959 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père | |
Martine Delvaux | 1968 | novelist, non-fiction | Blanc dehors | |
David Demchuk | playwright, novelist | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise | ||
Sandra Dempsey | 1956 | |||
Barry Dempster | 1952 | |||
Dennis Denisoff | novelist, poet, academic | Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories | ||
Randall Denley | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate | ||
Adebe DeRango-Adem | poet | Terra Incognita, Vox Humana | ||
Martine Desjardins | 1957 | novelist | Le Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium | |
Roxane Desjardins | 1991 | writer, editor | Ciseaux | |
Léo-Paul Desrosiers | 1896 | 1967 | journalist, novelist | Les Engagés du Grand Portage |
Henriette Dessaulles | 1860 | 1946 | journalist, diarist | Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881 |
William Deverell | 1937 | mysteries, screenwriter | Trial of Passion, April Fool | |
Alexander Dewdney | 1941 | computer science, philosophy | ||
Christopher Dewdney | 1951 | |||
Selwyn Hanington Dewdney | 1909 | 1979 | novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author | Wind Without Rain |
Myrna Dey | novelist, journalist | Extensions | ||
Ranj Dhaliwal | 1976 | novelist | Daaku, The Gangster's Life | |
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | 1949 | 2019 | poet | The Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise |
David Di Giovanni | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | ||
Mary di Michele | 1949 | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love | |
Ann Diamond | 1951 | poet, novelist, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye | |
Don Dickinson | 1947 | novelist, short stories | Blue Husbands, The Crew | |
Nicolas Dickner | 1972 | novelist, short stories | Nikolski | |
Cherie Dimaline | 1975 | novelist, short stories | The Marrow Thieves | |
Dorothy Dittrich | playwright | The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher | ||
Sean Dixon | playwright | 1492, A God in Need of Help | ||
Sandra Djwa | 1939 | biography, literary criticism | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page | |
Kildare Dobbs | 1923 | 2013 | short stories | |
Farzana Doctor | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement | ||
Cory Doctorow | 1971 | science fiction | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother | |
Jeramy Dodds | 1974 | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds | |
M. T. Dohaney | 1930 | novelist, short stories | The Corrigan Women | |
Bob Dolman | 1949 | screenwriter | SCTV | |
Don Domanski | 1950 | 2020 | ||
Fernand Dorais | 1928 | 2003 | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
Candas Jane Dorsey | 1952 | science fiction | Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth | |
Clive Doucet | 1946 | |||
Lily Dougall | 1858 | 1923 | author | A Question of Faith |
Arthur Doughty | 1860 | 1936 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
Orville Lloyd Douglas | 1976 | poet | ||
James Doull | 1918 | 2001 | philosopher | |
Philippa Dowding | children's literature | Oculum, Firefly | ||
Glen Downey | 1969 | children's literature | ||
Brian Doyle | 1935 | young adult fiction | ||
Brian Drader | 1960 | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals | |
Stan Dragland | 1942 | 2022 | fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays | Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys |
Sylvie Drapeau | 1962 | novelist | Le Fleuve, La Terre | |
Don Druick | 1945 | playwright | Where Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes | |
William Henry Drummond | 1854 | 1907 | poet | The Habitant |
Klara du Plessis | poet | Ekke | ||
Marcel Dubé | 1930 | 2016 | ||
Peter Dubé | novelist, short stories | Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky | ||
Réjean Ducharme | 1941 | 2017 | ||
Louis Dudek | 1918 | 2001 | poet | |
Margaret Duley | 1894 | 1968 | novelist | The Eyes of the Gull |
Dawn Dumont | novelist, short stories | Nobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run | ||
Dave Duncan | 1933 | 2018 | ||
Sandy Frances Duncan | 1942 | novels, short fiction, mysteries | Cariboo Runaway, Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island | |
Sara Jeannette Duncan | 1861 | 1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
Warren Dunford | 1963 | novelist | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer | |
Nina Dunic | short stories, novelist | The Clarion | ||
Norma Dunning | short stories | Annie Muktuk and Other Stories | ||
Kristyn Dunnion | 1969 | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles | |
Éric Dupont | 1970 | novelist | La Logeuse, La fiancée américaine | |
Douglas Durkin | 1884 | 1967 | novelist, screenwriter | The Magpie |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Lawrence Earl | 1915 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass |
Edith Maude Eaton | 1865 | 1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
Evelyn Eaton | 1902 | 1983 | novelist, poet | Quietly My Captain Waits |
Chris Eaton | 1971 | novelist, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect | |
Winnifred Eaton | 1875 | 1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
James Eayrs | 1926 | 2021 | historian | In Defence of Canada |
Kim Echlin | 1955 | novelist | The Disappeared | |
David Eddie | novelist, humorist | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control | ||
Esi Edugyan | 1978 | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black | |
Caterina Edwards | 1948 | novelist, playwright, short story writer | The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife | |
Modris Eksteins | 1943 | historian | Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty | |
Francesca Ekwuyasi | novelist | Butter Honey Pig Bread | ||
Rima Elkouri | novelist, journalist | Manam | ||
George Elliott | 1923 | 1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
Deborah Ellis | 1960 | non-fiction, young adult fiction | The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop | |
Sarah Ellis | 1952 | children's literature | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks | |
Louis Émond | 1969 | novelist | The Manuscript | |
Marina Endicott | 1958 | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference | |
Howard Engel | 1931 | 2019 | mysteries | The Suicide Murders |
Marian Engel | 1933 | 1985 | novelist | Bear |
Yves Engler | 1979 | politics, activist | Playing Left Wing | |
Sharon English | 1965 | short stories | Zero Gravity | |
Karen Enns | poet | That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics | ||
Steven Erikson | 1959 | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series | |
Ann Eriksson | 1956 | novelist | In the Hands of Anubis | |
Thom Ernst | film critic, memoirist | The Wild Boy of Waubamik | ||
Gloria Escomel | 1941 | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion | |
Robin Esrock | 1974 | travel writer | The Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List | |
Michael Estok | 1939 | 1989 | poet | A Plague Year Journal |
Hubert Evans | 1892 | 1986 | novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature | Mist on the River |
Jon Evans | 1973 | novelist | Dark Places | |
Stanley Evans | 1931 | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |
F
editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Emil Fackenheim | 1916 | 2003 | historian, philosopher | |
Jean Mohsen Fahmy | 1942 | novelist, short stories, literary criticism | L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée | |
Terry Fallis | 1959 | humorist | The Best Laid Plans | |
Alain Farah | 1979 | novelist, poet | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne | |
Abla Farhoud | 1945 | 2021 | novelist, playwright | Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince |
Edmundo Farolan | 1943 | poet, playwright, novelist | Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer | |
Brian Fawcett | 1944 | 2022 | 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 | 1821 | 1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
Linda Rui Feng | novelist | Swimming Back to Trout River | ||
Ian Ferguson | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses | ||
Max Ferguson | 1924 | 2013 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow | 1947 | novelist, playwright | ||
Will Ferguson | 1964 | humorist, novelist, travel writer | Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419 | |
Raoul Fernandes | poet | Transmitter and Receiver | ||
Paola Ferrante | poet, short stories | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals | ||
Jacques Ferron | 1921 | 1985 | playwright | |
Madeleine Ferron | 1922 | 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
George Fetherling | 1949 | |||
Charlotte Fielden | 1932 | 2021 | ||
Joy Fielding | 1945 | novelist | ||
Connie Fife | 1961 | 2017 | poet | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World |
Timothy Findley | 1930 | 2002 | novelist, dramatist, short stories | The Wars, The Piano Man's Daughter |
Lois Fine | playwright | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week | ||
Larry Fineberg | 1945 | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve | |
Joe Fiorito | 1948 | novelist, columnist, memoirist | The Song Beneath the Ice | |
Sheree Fitch | 1956 | poet, novelist, children's fiction | Mabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies | |
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 | 1952 | 2015 | ||
Polly Fleck | 1933 | 2019 | poet | The Chinese Execution |
Anne Fleming | 1964 | |||
May Agnes Fleming | 1840 | 1880 | novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
Cynthia Flood | 1940 | novelist, short stories | My Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy | |
Lisa Foad | short stories, journalist | The Night Is a Mouth | ||
Waawaate Fobister | playwright | Agokwe | ||
Jacques Folch-Ribas | 1928 | novelist | Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur | |
Naomi Fontaine | 1987 | novelist | Kuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni | |
Dennis Foon | 1951 | |||
Charles Foran | 1960 | novelist | Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire | |
John-James Ford | 1972 | |||
Paul Serge Forest | novelist | Tout est ori | ||
André Forget | novelist | In the City of Pigs | ||
Helen Forrester | 1919 | 2011 | novelist | |
Dominique Fortier | 1972 | novelist | Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer | |
Carley Fortune | 1985 | novelist | Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake | |
Cecil Foster | 1954 | |||
Marion Foster | 1924 | 1997 | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender |
Martin Fournier | 1954 | historian, young adult literature | The Adventures of Radisson | |
Roger Fournier | 1929 | 2012 | novelist, screenwriter | Le cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi |
Barbara Fradkin | ||||
Tess Fragoulis | ||||
Brian Francis | 1971 | novelist | Fruit | |
Brad Fraser | 1959 | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | |
John Anderson Fraser | 1866 | 1960 | ||
Keath Fraser | 1944 | |||
Raymond Fraser | 1941 | 2018 | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life | |
Sylvia Fraser | 1935 | novelist | ||
Louis Fréchette | 1839 | 1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
Pauline Fréchette | 1889 | 1943 | poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun | |
David French | 1939 | 2010 | playwright | |
Maida Parlow French | novelist, artist, biographer | |||
Kathy Friedman | short stories | All the Shining People | ||
Patrick Friesen | 1946 | |||
Mark Frutkin | 1948 | |||
Northrop Frye | 1912 | 1991 | critic | Anatomy of Criticism |
Kim Fu | 1987 | novelist | For Today I Am a Boy | |
Robert Fulford | 1932 | journalist | ||
Janine Fuller | 1958 | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | |
Pik-Shuen Fung | novelist | Ghost Forest | ||
Wes Funk | 1969 | 2015 | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage |
Nicola Furlong |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Brendan Gall | 1978 | playwright, screenwriter | Wide Awake Hearts | |
Mavis Gallant | 1922 | 2014 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
Steven Galloway | 1975 | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
François-Xavier Garneau | 1809 | 1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939 |
Hugh Garner | 1913 | 1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
Alfred Garrioch | 1848 | 1934 | novelist | First Furrows |
Elyse Gasco | 1967 | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? | |
Bill Gaston | 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite | |
C. E. Gatchalian | 1974 | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time | |
Connie Gault | 1949 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty | |
Daniel Gawthrop | 1963 | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter | |
Pauline Gedge | 1945 | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions | |
John Geiger | non-fiction author | The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition | ||
Karoline Georges | 1970 | novelist, poet | De synthèse | |
Shree Ghatage | 1957 | novelist, short story writer | Awake When All the World Is Asleep | |
Camilla Gibb | 1968 | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly | |
John Murray Gibbon | 1875 | 1952 | non-fiction, novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
Chantal Gibson | poet | How She Read | ||
Douglas Gibson | 1943 | editor, publisher, memoirist | Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others | |
Graeme Gibson | 1934 | 2019 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
Margaret Gibson | 1948 | 2006 | novelist, short stories | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
William Gibson | 1948 | science fiction | Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties | |
Sky Gilbert | 1952 | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space | |
Charlotte Gill | short stories, non-fiction | Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | ||
John Patrick Gillese | 1926 | 1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
Curtis Gillespie | 1960 | short stories, non-fiction, novels | The Progress of an Object in Motion, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast | |
David Gilmour | 1949 | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China | |
M-E Girard | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up | ||
Malcolm Gladwell | 1963 | journalist, sociologist | The Tipping Point, Outliers, Talking to Strangers | |
Joanna Glass | 1936 | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying | |
John Glassco | 1909 | 1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
Paul Glennon | short stories, young adult literature | The Dodecahedron, Bookweird | ||
Susan Glickman | 1953 | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape | |
Douglas Glover | 1948 | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N | |
Jacques Godbout | 1933 | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine | |
Dave Godfrey | 1938 | 2015 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
Philip H. Godsell | 1889 | 1961 | writer | Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company |
Glenda Goertzen | 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs | |
Nora Gold | 1952 | writer | Fields of Exile, The Dead Man, Marrow And Other Stories,18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas) | |
Oliver Goldsmith | 1794 | 1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
Gabriella Goliger | 1949 | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped | |
Leona Gom | 1946 | novelist, mysteries, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame | |
Michelle Good | novelist | Five Little Indians | ||
Alison Gordon | 1943 | 2015 | sports journalist, mysteries | The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball |
Charles Gordon | 1940 | newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist | The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip | |
Phyllis Gotlieb | 1926 | 2009 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
Sondra Gotlieb | 1936 | newspaper columnist | True Confections | |
Hiromi Goto | 1966 | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child | |
John Gould | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions | ||
Nora Gould | poet | I see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah | ||
George R. D. Goulet | 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 | 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 | 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller | |
Lee Gowan | 1961 | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy | |
Barbara Gowdy | 1950 | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone | |
Wayne Grady | 1948 | novelist, memoir, science | Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café | |
Gwethalyn Graham | 1913 | 1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
Neile Graham | 1958 | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory | |
Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874 | 1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
Jack Granatstein | 1939 | historian | ||
Linda Granfield | 1950 | children's literature | In Flanders Fields | |
E. M. Granger Bennett | 1988 | historical fiction | Short of the Glory | |
George Grant | 1918 | 1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
Hilda Kay Grant | 1910 | 1996 | writer, artist | The Salt Box |
Jessica Grant | 1972 | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise | |
Élise Gravel | 1977 | children's literature, graphic novels | Le Grand Antonio, La clé à molette | |
François Gravel | 1951 | novelist | Ostende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker | |
Charlotte Gray | 1948 | novelist, non-fiction | Mrs. King | |
R. W. Gray | short stories | Crisp, Entropic | ||
Ethel Grayson | 1890 | 1980 | novelist, poet | |
Lowell Green | 1936 | history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism | Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada! | |
Nick Green | playwright | Body Politic | ||
Robert Joseph Greene | 1973 | children's literature, romantic fiction | This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World | |
Ed Greenwood | 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms | |
Darren Greer | 1968 | novelist | Still Life with June, Just Beneath My Skin | |
James Gregor | novelist | Going Dutch | ||
Doris Gregory | autobiographer | How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story | ||
Daniel Grenier | 1980 | novelist, short stories | L’année la plus longue | |
Taras Grescoe | creative non-fiction | Sacré Blues | ||
Grey Owl | 1888 | 1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
Francis William Grey | 1860 | 1939 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Curé of St. Philippe |
Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894 | 1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
G. A. Grisenthwaite | novelist, short stories, poet | Home Waltz | ||
Lionel Groulx | 1878 | 1967 | historian | The Call of the Race |
Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879 | 1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
Brett Josef Grubisic | 1963 | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities | |
Katia Grubisic | 1978 | poet, short stories | what if red ran out | |
Agnès Gruda | journalist, short story writer | Onze petites trahisons | ||
Christian Guay-Poliquin | 1982 | novelist | Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige | |
Germaine Guèvremont | 1893 | 1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
Genni Gunn | 1949 | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless | |
Kristjana Gunnars | 1948 | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps | |
Stephen Guppy | 1951 | poet, novelist, short stories | Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy | |
David Gurr | 1936 | novelist, playwright | The Ring Master | |
Ralph Gustafson | 1909 | 1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
Don Gutteridge | 1937 | poet, novelist | ||
Guy Lawson | 1963 | journalist | War Dogs | |
Sandra Gwyn | 1935 | 2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Samra Habib | photographer, memoirist | We Have Always Been Here | ||
Chris Hadfield | 1959 | scientist, memoirist, essayist, musician | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station | |
Rawi Hage | 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach, Carnival | |
Joan Haggerty | 1940 | |||
Medina Hahn | playwright | Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience | ||
Roderick Haig-Brown | 1908 | 1976 | ||
Ken Haigh | 1962 | memoirist | Under the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury | |
Arthur Hailey | 1920 | 2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | 1796 | 1865 | The Clockmaker | |
Phil Hall | 1953 | poet | Killdeer | |
Louis Hamelin | 1959 | novelist, short stories, literary critic | La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx | |
Ian Hamilton | 1946 | journalist, mysteries | The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan | |
Jane Eaton Hamilton | 1954 | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger | ||
Lyn Hancock | 1938 | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon | ||
Angeline Hango | 1909 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Truthfully Yours |
Catherine Hanrahan | novelist | Lost Girls and Love Hotels | ||
Kevin Hardcastle | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Debris | |
Robin Hardy | 1952 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Call of the Wendigo, Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood |
Robyn Harding | 1969 | novelist | The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party | |
Robert Harlow | 1923 | novelist | Scann | |
Liz Harmer | novelist | The Amateurs | ||
Jennica Harper | poet, television writer | Wood, Bounce House, Jann | ||
Alexander Harris | 1805 | 1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
Claire Harris | 1937 | 2018 | ||
Dorothy Joan Harris | 1931 | children's literature | ||
Marjorie Harris | 1937 | gardening | Seasons of My Garden | |
Michael Harris | 1944 | poet | Circus | |
Michael Harris | 1948 | journalist | Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall | |
Michael Harris | 1980 | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection | |
Keith Harrison | 1945 | 2019 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
Jill Hartman | 1974 | |||
Diana Hartog | 1942 | poet, novelist | Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts | |
Kristen den Hartog | 1965 | |||
Kenneth J. Harvey | 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco | |
Kim Senklip Harvey | playwright | Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story | ||
Elisabeth Harvor | 1936 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart | |
Erum Shazia Hasan | novelist | We Meant Well | ||
Liedewy Hawke | translator | |||
Barbara Haworth-Attard | 1953 | |||
Elizabeth Hay | 1951 | novelist, non-fiction | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana | |
Elliott Hayes | 1956 | 1994 | ||
Matthew Hays | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers | ||
Steven Hayward | novelist, short stories | Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke | ||
Charles Heavysege | 1816 | 1876 | poet | Saul |
Anne Hébert | 1916 | 2000 | novelist, poet, short stories, novellas | Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent |
Maurice Hébert | 1888 | 1960 | novelist, poet | Le Cycle de Don Juan |
Steven Heighton | 1961 | 2022 | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer |
Sydney Hegele | short stories | The Pump | ||
William C. Heine | 1919 | 1991 | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian |
Matthew Heiti | novelist, screenwriter, playwright | Son of the Sunshine, The City Still Breathing | ||
Tyler Hellard | novelist | Searching for Terry Punchout | ||
Michael Helm | 1961 | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things | |
David Helwig | 1938 | 2018 | novelist, poet | Figures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter |
Maggie Helwig | 1961 | |||
Louis Hémon | 1880 | 1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
Lee Henderson | novelist, short stories | The Broken Record Technique, The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Maurice Henrie | 1936 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | Le Balcon dans le ciel | |
Sarah Henstra | novelist | Mad Miss Mimic, The Red Word | ||
John Herbert | 1926 | 2001 | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes |
Sarah Herbert | 1824 | 1846 | publisher, writer, poet | The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems |
Catherine Hernandez | playwright, novelist | Scarborough | ||
Nicholas Herring | novelist | Some Hellish | ||
Trevor Herriot | naturalist | River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds | ||
Benjamin Hertwig | poet | Slow War | ||
Sheila Heti | 1976 | novelist, short stories | How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor | |
Paul Hiebert | 1892 | 1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
Tomson Highway | 1951 | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen | |
Lawrence Hill | 1957 | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes | |
Ernest Hillen | journalist, memoirist | The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies | ||
Robert Hilles | 1951 | poet and novelist | Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild | |
Jack Hodgins | 1938 | |||
Robert Hogg | 1942 | poet, critic | The Connexions | |
Nadia L. Hohn | children's literature | Malaika's Costume | ||
Susan Holbrook | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes | ||
Arthur Holden | 1959 | playwright, television | Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob | |
Clive Holden | poet | Trains of Winnipeg | ||
Claire Holden Rothman | 1958 | novelist, short stories | The Heart Specialist, My October | |
Pauline Holdstock | ||||
Norah M. Holland | 1876 | 1925 | poet, playwright, journalist, editor | Spun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems |
Greg Hollingshead | 1947 | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer | |
Margaret Hollingsworth | 1942 | playwright | Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands | |
Michael Hollingsworth | 1950 | playwright | The History of the Village of the Small Huts | |
Nancy Holmes | 1959 | poet | The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree | |
Margaret Lindsay Holton (a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte) |
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 | |
David Homel | 1952 | novelist, translator | Electrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown | |
Hugh Hood | 1928 | 2000 | novelist | The New Age |
Cornelia Hoogland | 1952 | |||
Hilda Mary Hooke | 1898 | 1978 | poet, dramatist | |
Emma Hooper | 1980 | novelist | Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs | |
Nalo Hopkinson | 1960 | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads | |
Leah Horlick | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good | ||
Harold Horwood | 1923 | 2006 | ||
Karen Houle | poet | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology | ||
Liz Howard | poet | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | ||
Stevie Howell | poet | Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose | ||
Nazanine Hozar | 1978 | novelist | Aria | |
David Huebert | short stories, poetry | Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley | ||
Annie Campbell Huestis | 1878 | 1960 | short stories, poetry | Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp |
Tanya Huff | 1957 | fantasy | ||
Matt Hughes | 1949 | |||
Helen Humphreys | 1961 | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus | |
Aislinn Hunter | ||||
Bruce Hunter | 1952 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Coming Home from Home, Country Music Country, The Beekeeper's Daughter, Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected, In The Bear's House | |
Catherine Hunter | 1957 | |||
Maureen Hunter | 1948 | |||
Mervyn Huston | 1912 | 2001 | humorist | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes |
Nancy Huston | 1953 | novelist, translator | ||
Linda Hutcheon | 1947 | critic, academic | The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation. | |
Hazel Hutchins | ||||
Chris Hutchinson | 1972 | poet, novelist, academic | Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames | |
Bruce Hutchison | 1901 | 1992 | ||
Céline Huyghebaert | novelist | Le drap blanc | ||
Joel Thomas Hynes | 1976 | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday | |
Maureen Hynes | poet | Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Ameer Idreis | 1999 | novelist | The Ewald Series | |
Michael Ignatieff | 1947 | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging | |
George K. Ilsley | 1958 | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug | |
Neamat Imam | 1971 | novelist | The Black Coat | |
Susan Ioannou | 1944 | poet | Clarity Between Clouds | |
Anosh Irani | 1974 | novelist | The Song of Kahunsha | |
Ann Ireland | 1953 | 2018 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
Dionne Irving | novelist, short stories | Quint, The Islands | ||
Brian Thomas Isaac | 1950 | novelist | All the Quiet Places | |
Adel Iskandar | 1977 | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism | |
Doyali Islam | poet | Yusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft | ||
Frances Itani | 1942 | novelist | Deafening |
J
editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works Dragons of Nesbit |
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Donald Jack | 1924 | 2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
Suzanne Jacob | 1953 | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu | |
Heidi L. M. Jacobs | novelist | Molly of the Mall | ||
Michael Jacot | 1924 | 2006 | novelist, screenwriter | The Last Act of Martin Weston, The Last Butterfly |
Simone St. James | novelist | The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls | ||
Anna Brownell Jameson | 1794 | 1860 | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada | |
J. Robert Janes | 1932 | mysteries | ||
Mark Anthony Jarman | 1955 | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet | |
Melynda Jarratt | 1961 | non-fiction, historian literature | Voices of the Left Behind, War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved, Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides, Letters From Beauly | |
Claude Jasmin | 1930 | 2021 | novelist, screenwriter, short stories | Éthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal |
Michel Jean | novelist, journalist | Kukum, Atuk | ||
François Jeanneret | 1890 | 1967 | historian | |
E. A. Jenns | 1860 | 1930 | poet | Evening to Morning, and Other Poems |
Paulette Jiles | 1943 | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women | |
Gilles Jobidon | 1950 | novelist | La Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé | |
Marthe Jocelyn | 1956 | children's/young adult literature | Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series | |
K.V. Johansen | 1968 | fantasy, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus | |
Jessica Johns | novelist, short stories | Bad Cree | ||
Linda Johns | 1945 | non-fiction | Sharing a Robin's Life | |
E. Pauline Johnson | 1861 | 1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
Wentworth M. Johnson | 1939 | 2014 | science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction | Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series |
Aviaq Johnston | 1992/1993 | children's/young adult literature | Those Who Run in the Sky | |
Julie Johnston | children's/young adult literature | Adam and Eve and Pinch Me | ||
Wayne Johnston | 1958 | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion | |
Sean Johnston | 1966 | novelist, short stories, poet | A Day Does Not Go By | |
Andy Jones | 1948 | playwright, screenwriter | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood | |
Alice Jones | 1853 | 1933 | novelist, essayist | Gabriel Praed's Castle |
D. G. Jones | 1929 | 2016 | poet, translator | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth |
Scott Jones | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You | ||
Terry Jordan | short stories | It's a Hard Cow | ||
Eve Joseph | 1953 | poet | The Startled Heart, Quarrels |
K
editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Michael Kaan | fiction | The Water Beetles | ||
Elaine Kalman Naves | 1947 | non-fiction | Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story | |
Surjeet Kalsey | poet, drama, short stories, translator | FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart | ||
Smaro Kamboureli | ||||
Alan Kane | 1954 | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | ||
Donna Kane | poet | Orrery | ||
Adeena Karasick | 1965 | poet | This Poem | |
Ibi Kaslik | 1973 | novelist | Skinny, The Angel Riots | |
Welwyn Wilton Katz | 1948 | |||
Aristote Kavungu | 1962 | fiction, poetry | Un train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi | |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 1954 | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan | |
Greg Kearney | short stories, drama | Mommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun | ||
Lionel Kearns | 1937 | fiction, essays, digital-word-art | Birth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences | |
Diane Keating | poet | No Birds or Flowers | ||
Julie Keith | short stories | The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There | ||
Thomas P. Kelley | 1910 | 1982 | pulp, true crime | The Black Donnellys |
Kaie Kellough | 1975 | poet, novelist, short stories | Magnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads | |
Cathal Kelly | sportswriter, memoirist | Boy Wonders | ||
M. T. Kelly | 1946 | novelist | A Dream Like Mine | |
Sean Kelly | 1940 | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon | |
Olivier Kemeid | 1975 | playwright | L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés | |
Howard Angus Kennedy | 1861 | 1938 | Historian, journalist | The Northwest Rebellion |
Michael Kenyon | novelist, short stories, poet | The Beautiful Children, Kleinberg | ||
Conor Kerr | 1988 | novelist, poet | Avenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers | |
Susan Kerslake | 1943 | novelist, short stories | Middlewatch, The Book of Fears | |
Joseph Kertes | 1951 | novelist, journalist | Winter Tulips, Gratitude | |
Craig Kielburger | 1982 | Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur | Free the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From A Street Kid | |
Marc Kielburger | 1977 | Canadian human rights activist, author, social entrepreneur | Me To We: Finding Meaning In A Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter | |
William Kilbourn | 1926 | 1995 | historian | The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion |
Crawford Kilian | 1941 | The Last Vikings | ||
Crad Kilodney | 1948 | 2014 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
Deborah Kimmett | playwright, humorist | Miracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy | ||
Basil King | 1859 | 1928 | novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association | The Inner Shrine (1909) |
Thomas King | 1943 | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water | |
Wesley King | 1987 | novelist, fiction | OCDaniel, The Wizenard Series | |
Mark Kingwell | 1963 | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium | |
W.P. Kinsella | 1935 | 2016 | novelist, short stories | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
William Kirby | 1817 | 1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
Barbara Klar | 1966 | poet | The Night You Called Me a Shadow | |
Sarah Klassen | 1932 | novelist, poet | Journey to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs | |
A. M. Klein | 1909 | 1972 | novelist, poet | The Second Scroll |
Joshua Knelman | creative non-fiction | Hot Art | ||
Chelene Knight | poet, creative non-fiction | Dear Current Occupant | ||
Raymond Knister | 1899 | 1932 | Grapes (2006) | |
Alexander Knox | 1907 | 1995 | actor, novelist | Night Of The White Bear |
Tamai Kobayashi | 1965 | short stories, novelist | Prairie Ostrich | |
Eric Koch | 1919 | 2018 | novelist | Premonitions: A novel |
Joy Kogawa | 1935 | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka | |
Miodrag Kojadinović | 1961 | short story writer, poet | Érotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies | |
Sergio Kokis | 1944 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac | |
Pamela Korgemagi | novelist | The Hunter and the Old Woman | ||
Gordon Korman | 1963 | children's, young adult literature | This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall | |
Myrna Kostash | 1944 | Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe | ||
Shane Koyczan | 1976 | Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media) | ||
Greg Kramer | 1961 | 2013 | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally |
Philip Kreiner | 1950 | novelist, short stories | People Like Us in a Place Like This | |
Henry Kreisel | 1922 | 1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
Aaron Kreuter | poet, short stories | You and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome | ||
John Krizanc | 1956 | playwright | Tamara | |
Robert Kroetsch | 1927 | 2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
Daniel Krolik | 1977 | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay | |
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | 1965 | novelist, short stories | Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things | |
Janice Kulyk Keefer | 1952 | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library | |
J. D. Kurtness | fiction | De vengeance | ||
Michael Kusugak | 1948 | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog | |
Lydia Kwa | 1959 | fiction, poet | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Sonnet L'Abbé | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe | ||
Carole Labarre | 1966 | novelist | L'Or des mélèzes | |
Richard Labonté | 1949 | critic, anthologist | First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series | |
Rosa Labordé | playwright | Léo | ||
Marie-Sissi Labrèche | 1969 | screenwriter, novelist | Borderline | |
Marie-Ève Lacasse | 1982 | novelist | Autobiographie de l'étranger | |
Edward A. Lacey | 1988 | 1995 | poet | The Forms of Life |
Ben Ladouceur | 1987 | poet | Otter | |
Chloé LaDuchesse | poet | Exosquelette | ||
Steven Laffoley | 1965 | non-fiction, novelist | Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo | |
Marie-Pier Lafontaine | novelist | Chienne | ||
Larissa Lai | 1967 | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand | |
Angélique Lalonde | short stories | Glorious Frazzled Beings | ||
Kama La Mackerel | poet | ZOM-FAM | ||
Vincent Lam | 1974 | medicine, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Headmaster's Wager | |
Tsering Yangzom Lama | novelist | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | ||
Guillaume Lambert | 1984 | novelist, screenwriter | Satyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara | |
Kevin Lambert | 1992 | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval | |
Gerald Lampert | 1920s | 1978 | novelist, poet | Tangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus |
Tim Lander | 1938 | poet | Street Heart Poems | |
Patrick Lane | 1939 | 2019 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
André Langevin | 1927 | 2009 | novelist, playwright, journalist | Évadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc |
Marisa Lankester | 1963 | writer | Dangerous Odds | |
Shari Lapena | 1960 | novelist | Happiness Economics, The Couple Next Door | |
Annette Lapointe | 1978 | novelist | Stolen | |
Gilbert La Rocque | 1943 | 1984 | novelist, biographer | Les masques |
Hubert LaRue | 1833 | 1881 | writer, physician, scientist | Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean |
Stéphane Larue | 1983 | novelist | Le Plongeur | |
Evelyn Lau | 1971 | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid | |
Margaret Laurence | 1926 | 1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel, The Diviners |
Agnes C. Laut | 1871 | 1936 | journalist, novelist, historian, social worker | Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier |
Marie-Renée Lavoie | 1974 | novelist | La petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate | |
Karen Lawrence | 1951 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Life of Helen Alone | |
R.D. Lawrence | 1921 | 2003 | naturalist, nature writer | Cry Wild |
Mary Lawson | 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 |
Georgette LeBlanc | 1977 | poet, translator | Alma, Prudent | |
Gérald Leblanc | 1945 | 2005 | poet | Complaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra |
Perrine Leblanc | 1980 | novelist | L'homme blanc, Malabourg | |
D. M. LeBourdais | 1887 | 1964 | journalist, historian | Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution |
Isabel LeBourdais | 1909 | 2003 | journalist | The Trial of Steven Truscott |
Félix Leclerc | 1914 | 1988 | writer, poet, singer-songwriter | Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers |
Dennis Lee | 1939 | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies | |
John Alan Lee | 1933 | 2013 | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex |
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 | 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb | |
Nancy Lee | 1970 | short stories | Dead Girls | |
Ronald Lee | 1934 | 2020 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
Sky Lee | 1952 | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe | |
Mathyas Lefebure | novelist | D'où viens tu, berger? | ||
Lily Alice Lefevre | 1854 | 1938 | poet | The Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By The Sea |
Mark Leiren-Young | 1962 | playwright, novelist | Shylock (play), The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen | |
Roger Lemelin | 1919 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
Matt Lennox | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead | |
John Lent | 1948 | 2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
Don LePan | 1954 | novelist | Animals: A Novel | |
Douglas LePan | 1914 | 1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology" |
Catherine Leroux | 1979 | novelist, short stories | Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria | |
Pierre Leroux | 1958 | novelist | Le Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur | |
Alex Leslie | poet, short stories | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You | ||
Mark Leslie | 1969 | novelist, non-fiction, short stories | Haunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York | |
Sophie Létourneau | 1980 | novelist | Chasse à l'homme | |
Carrianne Leung | novelist, short stories | The Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You | ||
J. R. (Roger) Léveillé | 1945 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Setting Lake Sun | |
Yves Lever | 1942 | 2020 | film critic, historian, biographer | Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec |
Lilian Leveridge | 1879 | 1953 | poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles | "Over the Hills of Home" |
Norman Levine | 1923 | 2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
Shar Levine | 1953 | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope | |
Naomi K. Lewis | 1976 | novelist, non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers | |
Wyndham Lewis | 1882 | 1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
Katherine Leyton | poet | All the Gold Hurts My Mouth | ||
T. Liem | poet | Obits | ||
Hillar Liitoja | playwright | The Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville | ||
Thea Lim | 1981 | novelist | An Ocean of Minutes | |
Michael Lista | 1983 | poet | Bloom | |
Ashley Little | 1983 | children's, young adult literature | The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang | |
Jean Little | 1932 | 2020 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
Dorothy Livesay | 1909 | 1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
Billie Livingston | 1965 | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes | |
Douglas Lochhead | 1922 | 2011 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
Lynette Loeppky | memoirist | Cease | ||
John Lorinc | journalist | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias | ||
Kevin Loring | 1974 | playwright | Where the Blood Mixes | |
Jennifer LoveGrove | poet, novelist | Watch How We Walk | ||
Malcolm Lowry | 1909 | 1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
Pat Lowther | 1935 | 1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
Jack Ludwig | 1922 | 2018 | novelist, short stories, sportswriter | Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration |
Sidura Ludwig | novelist, short stories | Holding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected | ||
Pearl Luke | 1958 | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee | |
Janet Lunn | 1928 | 2017 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
Laura Lush | 1959 | poet, short story writer | Hometown, Going to the Zoo | |
Richard Lush | 1934 | poet | A Manual for Lying Down | |
Michael Lynch | 1944 | 1991 | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends |
Annabel Lyon | 1971 | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean | |
Eswyn Lyster | 1923 | 2009 | war brides, war | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
Trent Lewin | short stories, novels | The Reach, Titan Arum, Ata Vica, A Moment for Indra Singh |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Rozena Maart | 1962 | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle | |
Patrick MacAdam | 1934 | 2015 | Gold Medal Misfits | |
Annick MacAskill | poet | Shadow Blight | ||
Ann-Marie MacDonald | 1958 | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | |
Bryden MacDonald | 1960 | playwright | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath | |
D. R. MacDonald | 1939 | novelist, short stories | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart | |
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald | 1864 | 1922 | poet, children's literature, short stories, essays | |
Hugh MacDonald | 1945 | This is a Love Song | ||
Jake MacDonald | 1949 | 2020 | The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country | |
Janice MacDonald | 1959 | novelist, children's literature, short stories | Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out | |
Maggie MacDonald | 1979 | |||
Wilson MacDonald | 1880 | 1967 | poet | Song of the Prairie Land |
Lee MacDougall | playwright | High Life | ||
Gwendolyn MacEwen | 1941 | 1987 | poet, novelist | Julian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams |
Mary Esther MacGregor | 1872 | 1961 | novelist, non-fiction | A Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley. |
Roy MacGregor | 1948 | journalist, non-fiction | Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey | |
Agnes Maule Machar | 1837 | 1927 | ||
Linden MacIntyre | 1943 | novelist, journalist | The Bishop's Man, Causeway | |
Matthew MacKenzie | playwright | Bears, The First Métis Man of Odesa | ||
Rory Maclean | 1954 | |||
Hugh MacLennan | 1907 | 1990 | novelist, essayist | Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising |
Matt MacLennan | ||||
Michael MacLennan | 1968 | |||
Alexander MacLeod | 1972 | short stories | Light Lifting | |
Alison MacLeod | fiction | Unexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts | ||
Alistair MacLeod | 1936 | 2014 | novelist, short stories | No Great Mischief |
Elizabeth Macleod | biographer | |||
Joan MacLeod | 1954 | playwright | Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl | |
Rick Maddocks | 1970 | short stories | Sputnik Diner | |
Adriana Maggs | screenwriter | Grown Up Movie Star | ||
Randall Maggs | poet | Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems | ||
Michèle Magny | 1944 | playwright | Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel | |
Anand Mahadevan | 1979 | novelist | The Strike | |
Rabindranath Maharaj | 1955 | novelist, short stories | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice | |
Louise Maheux-Forcier | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, radio and television drama | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
Keith Maillard | 1942 | novelist, poet | Twin Studies, Difficulty at the Beginning quartet, The Clarinet Polka, Gloria, Dementia Americana, Hazard Zones, Light in the Company of Women, Motet, Two Strand River | |
Antonine Maillet | 1929 | novelist, playwright | La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charrette | |
André Major | 1942 | poet, novelist | Les Rescapés | |
Kevin Major | 1949 | |||
Pasha Malla | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method | ||
Donato Mancini | poet | Ligature, Æthel, Same Diff | ||
Eli Mandel | 1922 | 1992 | poet | Trio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance |
Miriam Mandel | 1930 | 1982 | poet | Lions at Her Face, Station 14 |
Avner Mandelman | novelist, finance | The Debba | ||
David Manicom | 1960 | poet, novelist | ||
Lee Maracle | 1950 | 2021 | poet, novelist | |
Blaine Marchand | 1949 | poet, non-fiction, novelist | A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives | |
Jovette Marchessault | 1938 | 2012 | novelist, playwright | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien |
Hubert Marcoux | 1941 | 2009 | non-fiction, adventure travel | Around the World in 18 Years |
Michèle Marineau | 1955 | novelist, translator | La Route de Chlifa | |
Robert Marinier | 1954 | playwright, television | L'Insomnie, Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville | |
Daphne Marlatt | 1942 | |||
Paul Marlowe | novelist, short stories | Sporeville | ||
John Marlyn | 1912 | 1985 | ||
Nicole Markotic | 1962 | |||
Tom Marshall | 1938 | 1993 | poet, novelist, critic | Adele at the End of the Day |
Yolanda T. Marshall | 1978 | children's literature | My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans | |
Émile Martel | 1941 | poet, short stories | Pour orchestre et poète seul | |
Yann Martel | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Life of Pi, The High Mountains of Portugal | |
Camille Martin | 1956 | poet, collage artist | Sonnets, Looms | |
Claire Martin | 1914 | 2014 | La joue droite | |
Paul Nicholas Mason | 1958 | novelist, playwright | Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave | |
Vincent Massey | 1887 | 1967 | historian | On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march |
Elan Mastai | screenwriter, novelist | The F Word, All Our Wrong Todays | ||
Carol Matas | 1949 | novelist | After the War, Daniel's Story | |
Shirlee Smith Matheson | 1943 | |||
Suzette Mayr | 1967 | novelist | Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter | |
John Bentley Mays | 1941 | 2016 | journalist, novelist, memoirist | In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood |
Susan Mayse | 1948 | creative non-fiction | Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web | |
Julie Mazzieri | 1975 | novelist | Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco | |
Melchior Mbonimpa | 1955 | novelist, non-fiction | Les morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel | |
Tawiah M'carthy | playwright | Obaaberima | ||
Colin McAdam | novelist | Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth | ||
Steve McCaffery | 1947 | |||
Julia McCarthy | poet | Return from Erebus, All the Names Between | ||
Nellie McClung | 1873 | 1951 | journalist | |
Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac) | poet, academic | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers | ||
Derek McCormack | 1969 | novelist, short stories | Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly | |
Eric McCormack | 1938 | novelist | The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women | |
Edward McCourt | 1907 | 1972 | novelist, non-fiction | Music at the Close |
John McCrae | 1872 | 1918 | poet | "In Flanders' Fields" |
Kathleen McCracken | 1960 | poet | Blue Light, Bay and College | |
Derek McCulloch | 1964 | graphic novelist, children's literature | Stagger Lee | |
Thomas McCulloch | 1776 | 1843 | humourist | The Stepsure Letters |
Colin McDougall | 1917 | 1984 | novelist | Execution |
Franklin D. McDowell | 1888 | 1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
Jaimie McEvoy | 1965 | historian | ||
David McFadden | 1940 | 2018 | poet, novelist, short stories | The Art of Darkness, What's the Score? |
Donna McFarlane | 1958 | novelist | Division of Surgery | |
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon) | 1902 | 1977 | children's literature | The Hardy Boys |
Sheryl McFarlane | 1954 | children's literature, young adult fiction | Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog | |
Oonah McFee | 1916 | 2006 | novels, short stories | Sandbars |
Peter McGehee | 1955 | 1991 | novels, short stories | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart |
Robin McGrath | 1949 | novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction | Escaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt | |
Jean McIlwraith | 1858 | 1938 | novelist, biographer | |
Edgar McInnis | 1899 | 1973 | poet, historian | The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War |
James McIntyre | 1827 | 1906 | poet | |
Ami McKay | 1968 | The Birth House | ||
Don McKay | 1942 | poet, essayist | ||
Leo McKay, Jr. | 1964 | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six, Like This | |
Bruce Alistair McKelvie | 1889 | 1960 | journalist, historian | Magic, Murder and Mystery |
Ian McLachlan | novelist, playwright | The Seventh Hexagram | ||
Stuart McLean | 1948 | 2017 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | academic | |
Susan McMaster | 1950 | |||
Amber McMillan | writer | We Can't Ever Do This Again, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island, The Running Trees, This Is a Stickup | ||
Sylvia McNicoll | 1954 | |||
Florence McNeil | 1932 | 2013 | poet, playwright | Overlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me |
Marie McPhedran | 1904 | 1974 | novelist | Cargoes on the Great Lakes |
Christopher Meades | 1974 | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary | |
John Melady | ||||
Lee Mellor | 1982 | true crime, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder | |
Judith Merril | 1923 | 1997 | science fiction, editor | |
Edmund Metatawabin | 1948 | memoirist | Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History | |
John Metcalf | 1938 | |||
Stéfani Meunier | 1971 | novelist, short stories | Une carte postale de l'océan | |
Sarah Mian | poet, novelist, short stories | When the Saints | ||
Shayne Michael | poet | Fif et sauvage | ||
Anne Michaels | 1958 | poet, novelist | Fugitive Pieces | |
Sean Michaels | 1982 | novelist, music critic | Us Conductors | |
Andrée A. Michaud | 1957 | novelist, playwright | Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée | |
Marianne Micros | 1943 | short stories, poet | Eye | |
Jesse Edgar Middleton | 1872 | 1960 | journalist, historian, songwriter | Huron Carol, Toronto's 100 Years |
Stevie Mikayne | mystery novelist, children's literature | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts | ||
Roy Miki | 1942 | |||
Ron Miksha | 1954 | Bad Beekeeping | ||
Eleanor Millard | 1942 | novelist, memoirist, short stories | River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow | |
John Miller | 1968 | novelist | The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath | |
Orlo Miller | 1911 | 1993 | historian, novelist | |
Kenneth G. Mills | 1923 | 2004 | poet | |
Christine Miscione | novelist, short stories | Auxiliary Skins, Carafola | ||
Christian Mistral | 1964 | novelist, poet, songwriter | Vamp | |
Rohinton Mistry | 1952 | novelist | Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance | |
Jared Mitchell | 1955 | |||
John Wendell Mitchell | 1882 | 1951 | novelist | The Yellow Briar |
W. O. Mitchell | 1914 | 1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
Rick Mofina | 1959 | mystery, thriller | Blood of Others | |
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 | 1952 | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series | |
Lisa Moore | 1964 | short stories, novelist | ||
Jeffrey Moore | novelist | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club | ||
Shani Mootoo | 1958 | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night | |
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon | poet | |||
Pierre Morency | 1942 | poet, playwright | ||
Bernice Morgan | 1935 | |||
Dwayne Morgan | 1974 | |||
Grace Jones Morgan | 1884 | 1977 | pulp | |
Jeffrey Morgan | rock critic, biographer, graphic novelist, poet | The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story, The Brides of Mister X | ||
Tara Lee Morin | poet, memoirist | As I Remember It | ||
Guillaume Morissette | 1983 | novelist | ||
Kim Moritsugu | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure | ||
Donna Morrissey | 1956 | |||
Kim Morrissey | ||||
Garry Thomas Morse | poet, novelist | Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour | ||
Colin Morton | 1948 | |||
Marie Moser | 1948 | novelist, short stories | Counterpoint | |
Daniel David Moses | 1952 | 2020 | poet and playwright | |
Tara Moss | 1973 | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess | |
Erín Moure | 1955 | poet | ||
Farley Mowat | 1921 | 2014 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
Claire Mulligan | novelist, short stories | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | ||
Alice Munro | 1931 | 2024 | 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 | 1945 | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess | |
Janet Munsil | playwright | Be Still, That Elusive Spark | ||
Sachiko Murakami | 1980 | poet | The Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render | |
George Murray | 1971 | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms | |
Morgan Murray | novelist | Dirty Birds | ||
Sheila Murray | novelist, short stories | Finding Edward | ||
John Murrell | 1945 | 2019 | playwright | |
Susan Musgrave | 1951 | poet, novelist | The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids | |
Maria Mutch | memoirist, short stories | Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours | ||
Téa Mutonji | short stories | Shut Up You're Pretty |
N
editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ira Nadel | 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 | |
Noor Naga | novelist | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | ||
Hasan Namir | 1987 | novelist | God in Pink | |
Shenaaz Nanji | 1954 | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions | |
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Sanaaq |
Akhtar Naraghi | novelist, poet | The Big Green House | ||
André Narbonne | novelist, poet, short stories | Twelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia | ||
Angela Narth | 1946 | children's literature, non-fiction | Simon With Two Left Feet | |
Jim Nason | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow | ||
Riel Nason | young adult novelist | The Town That Drowned | ||
Dimitri Nasrallah | 1977 | novelist | Blackbodying, Hotline | |
Michael Nathanson | playwright | Talk | ||
Blaise Ndala | novelist | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov | ||
Jen Neale | novelist | Land Mammals and Sea Creatures | ||
Émile Nelligan | 1879 | 1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
Max Nemni | political scientist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed | ||
Monique Nemni | 1936 | linguist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed | |
Pierre Nepveu | 1946 | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques | |
Sylvain Neuvel | 1973 | science fiction | Sleeping Giants | |
John Newlove | 1938 | 2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
Peter C. Newman | 1929 | journalist | The Canadian Establishment | |
B. P. Nichol | 1944 | 1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
Cecily Nicholson | poet | From the Poplars, Wayside Sang | ||
Hal Niedzviecki | 1971 | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too | |
Susin Nielsen | children's and young adult literature | The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen | ||
Frederick Niven | 1878 | 1944 | novelist | The Flying Years |
Fraser Nixon | crime novelist | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head | ||
Francine Noël | 1945 | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie | |
Henri Nouwen | 1932 | 1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
Mary Novik | 1945 | novelist | Conceit | |
Alden Nowlan | 1933 | 1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I’m a Stranger Here Myself |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Keith Oatley | 1939 | novelist, psychology, scholar | The Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions | |
Sheldon Oberman | 1949 | 2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
Theodore Odrach | 1912 | 1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories |
Rohan O'Grady | 1922 | 2014 | novelist | Let's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal |
Howard O'Hagan | 1902 | 1982 | novelist, short stories | Tay John |
Alix Ohlin | novelist, short stories | Inside, Signs and Wonders | ||
Alexandra Oliver | 1970 | poet | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway | |
Tolu Oloruntoba | poet | The Junta of Happenstance | ||
Bryan Lee O'Malley | 1979 | graphic novelist | Scott Pilgrim | |
Heather O'Neill | 1973 | novelist | Lullabies for Little Criminals | |
Michael Ondaatje | 1943 | novelist, poet | The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost | |
Christopher Ondaatje | 1933 | writer, 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 | |
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia | novelist | The Son of the House | ||
Kenneth Oppel | 1967 | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga | |
Stephen Osborne | 1947 | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World | |
Gabriel Osson | novelist, poet, memoirist | Le jour se lèvera | ||
Martha Ostenso | 1900 | 1963 | novelist, screenwriter | Wild Geese |
Lawrence O'Toole | film critic, memoirist | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home | ||
Fernand Ouellette | 1930 | poet, novelist | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures | |
Susan Ouriou | 1955 | novelist, short stories, translator | Damselfish | |
James Macdonald Oxley | 1855 | 1907 | novelist (juvenile) |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Frank L. Packard | 1877 | 1942 | Novelist | The Adventures of Jimmie Dale |
Susan Paddon | poet | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | ||
P. K. Page | 1916 | 2010 | poet | |
Basil Papademos | 1957 | erotica | Mount Royal | |
Aaron Paquette | 1974 | young adult literature, fantasy | Lightfinder | |
Jivesh Parasram | playwright | Take d Milk, Nah? | ||
Arleen Paré | 1946 | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains | |
Erna Paris | literary non-fiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History | ||
Fawn Parker | novelist, poet, short stories | What We Both Know | ||
Gilbert Parker | 1862 | 1932 | novelist | The Seats of the Mighty, The Lane that Had No Turning |
Amy Parkinson | 1855 | 1938 | poet | Love Through All, Best |
Jocelyn Parr | fiction | Uncertain Weights and Measures | ||
Amanda Parris | playwright | Other Side of the Game | ||
Markoosie Patsauq | 1942 | 2020 | fiction | Harpoon of the Hunter |
Kevin Patterson | 1964 | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between | |
Raymond M. Patterson | 1898 | 1984 | ||
Philip Kevin Paul | poet | Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger | ||
Loghan Paylor | novelist, short stories | The Cure for Drowning | ||
Joan Payzant | 1925 | 2013 | columnist, historical, childrens' fiction | Who's a Scaredy-Cat!: A Story of the Halifax Explosion |
Kit Pearson | 1947 | children's literature, young adult literature | Awake and Dreaming, The Sky is Falling, A Handful of Time | |
Soraya Peerbaye | poet, dramatist | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell | ||
Francine Pelletier | 1959 | science fiction, young adult literature | ||
Fred Pellerin | 1976 | short stories | ||
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | 1971 | children's, memoirist, academic | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant | |
Louise Penny | 1958 | mysteries | Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month | |
H. R. Percy | 1920 | 1997 | novelist, short stories | Painted Ladies |
Susan Perly | novelist, short stories | Love Street, Death Valley | ||
Amanda Peters | novelist, short stories | The Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon | ||
Bradley Peters | poet | Sonnets from a Cell | ||
Jordan Peterson | 1962 | applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar | Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five | |
Len Peterson | 1917 | 2008 | ||
Zoey Leigh Peterson | novelist | Next Year, for Sure | ||
Geneviève Pettersen | 1982 | novelist, blogger | La déesse des mouches à feu | |
Josephine Phelan | 1905 | 1979 | History, biography | The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee |
Edward O. Phillips | 1931 | 2020 | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday |
Wendy Phillips | children's literature | Fishtailing | ||
Lorne Pierce | 1890 | 1961 | literary critic | |
Joseph Jomo Pierre | playwright | Shakespeare's Nigga | ||
Emmanuelle Pierrot | 1994 | novelist | La version qui n'intéresse personne | |
Leslie Hall Pinder | 1948 | 2021 | fiction | On Double Tracks |
Sarah Pinder | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place | ||
William Ping | fiction | Hollow Bamboo | ||
Joseph Pivato | 1946 | literary critic, editor | Echo: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing. | |
Michel Pleau | 1964 | poet | La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit | |
Casey Plett | 1987 | short stories | A Safe Girl to Love | |
Jacques Poitras | journalist, non-fiction | Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future | ||
Craig Poile | poet | First Crack, True Concessions | ||
Daniel Poliquin | 1953 | |||
Sharon Pollock | 1936 | 2021 | ||
Michael Poole | 1936 | 2010 | non-fiction | Romancing Mary Jane |
Helen Fogwill Porter | 1930 | non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright | Below the Bridge, Finishing School | |
Michelle Porter | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Inquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story | ||
Liza Potvin | 1958 | non-fiction | White Lies (for my mother) | |
Gabrielle Poulin | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, poet | La Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison |
Jacques Poulin | 1937 | novelist | Volkswagen Blues | |
Christine Pountney | 1971 | novelist | Last Chance Texaco | |
Joël Pourbaix | 1958 | poet | Le mal du pays est un art oublié | |
B.W. Powe | 1955 | philosopher | A Canada of Light | |
Kerry Lee Powell | poet, short stories | The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush | ||
Craig Francis Power | novelist | Blood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love | ||
Paul David Power | playwright | Crippled | ||
E. J. Pratt | 1883 | 1964 | poet | |
Steven Price | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness | ||
Robert Priest | 1951 | poet | ||
Alex Pugsley | 1963 | novels, short stories, screenwriter | Dirty Singles, Aubrey McKee | |
Kate Pullinger | 1961 | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing | |
Al Purdy | 1918 | 2000 | poet | |
Andrew Pyper | 1968 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | ||
Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | ||
Darlene Quaife | 1948 | novelist | Bone Bird | |
Andy Quan | 1969 | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions | |
Paul Quarrington | 1953 | 2010 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music, King Leary |
Meredith Quartermain | 1950 | poet, fiction | Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet | |
Marion Quednau | 1952 | novelist, poet, short stories, children's literature | The Butterfly Chair, Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road | |
Sina Queyras | 1963 | poet, novelist | Lemon Hound, MxT, Autobiography of Childhood | |
Christine Quintana | playwright | Selfie | ||
Pascale Quiviger | 1969 | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Tom Rachman | 1974 | novelist | The Imperfectionists | |
Thomas Head Raddall | 1903 | 1994 | novelist | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories |
Kenneth Radu | 1945 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance | |
Nasrin Rahimieh | Persian literature | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage | ||
Deepa Rajagopalan | short stories | Peacocks of Instagram | ||
Danny Ramadan | 1984 | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing | |
Menaka Raman-Wilms | journalist, novelist | The Rooftop Garden | ||
Gurcharan Rampuri | 1929 | 2018 | ||
Gord Rand | playwright | Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams | ||
Edeet Ravel | 1955 | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers | |
Angela Rawlings | 1978 | |||
Ben Rayner | music journalist | |||
Mark A. Rayner | ||||
James Reaney | 1926 | 2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's |
Kelly Rebar | 1956 | playwright, screenwriter | Bordertown Café | |
Duke Redbird | 1939 | poet, academic, journalist | ||
Corey Redekop | novelist, short stories | Husk | ||
Michael Redhill | 1966 | novelist, short stories | Martin Sloane, Bellevue Square | |
Beatrice Redpath | 1886 | 1937 | poet, short stories | Drawn Shutters, White Lilac |
Roberta Rees | 1954 | novelist, poet, short stories | Eyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers | |
Iain Reid | 1980 | novelist, memoirist | The Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things | |
Gayla Reid | 1945 | novels, short stories | To Be There With You | |
Raziel Reid | 1990 | young adult novelist | When Everything Feels Like the Movies | |
Stephen Reid | 1950 | 2018 | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole |
Zalika Reid-Benta | short stories | Frying Plantain | ||
Kati Rekai | 1921 | 2010 | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece | |
Maria Reva | short stories | Good Citizens Need Not Fear | ||
Shane Rhodes | poet | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery | ||
François Ricard | 1947 | 2022 | biographer, essayist | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
Nino Ricci | 1959 | novelist | Lives of the Saints | |
Waubgeshig Rice | novelist, short stories | Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow | ||
David Adams Richards | 1950 | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street | |
Evelyn M. Richardson | 1902 | 1976 | novelist | Desired Haven |
Jael Richardson | memoirist, playwright | The Stone Thrower | ||
John Richardson | 1796 | 1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
Robin Richardson | poet | Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want | ||
Edward Riche | 1961 | novelist, screenwriter | Rare Birds | |
Daniel Richler | 1957 | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow | |
Emma Richler | 1961 | novelist, short stories | Sister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs | |
Jacob Richler | journalist | |||
Mordecai Richler | 1931 | 2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version |
Nancy Richler | 1957 | 2018 | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
Noah Richler | journalist | This Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War | ||
Emily Riddle | poet | The Big Melt | ||
Tanis Rideout | poet, novelist | Above All Things | ||
Sandra Ridley | poet | Silvija, Vixen | ||
T. F. Rigelhof | 1944 | novelist, memoirist, literary critic | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress | |
Sharon Riis | 1947 | 2016 | novelist, short stories, screenwriter | The True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah |
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton) | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Thirty Acres |
Charles Ritchie | 1906 | 1995 | diarist | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years |
Thomas Beattie Roberton | 1879 | 1936 | journalist, critic | TBR: Newspaper Pieces |
Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860 | 1943 | poet, novelist | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg |
Ken Roberts | 1946 | |||
Paul William Roberts | 1950 | 2019 | ||
Bill Robertson | screenwriter | The Events Leading Up to My Death, Apartment Hunting | ||
Lisa Robertson | 1961 | poet | ||
Margaret Murray Robertson | 1823 | 1897 | novelist | |
John Daniel Robins | 1884 | 1952 | humorist | The Incomplete Anglers |
Eden Robinson | 1968 | novelist | Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster | |
J. Jill Robinson | 1955 | short stories, creative non-fiction | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire | |
Peter Robinson | 1950 | mystery | ||
Marc Robitaille | novels, sports history, film | Histoires d'hiver, Un été sans point ni coup sûr, Il était une fois les Expos | ||
Harriet A. Roche | 1835 | 1921 | pioneer, traveler | On Trek in the Transvaal |
Ajmer Rode | poet, playwright, translator | |||
Spider Robinson | 1948 | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon | |
Grace Dean Rogers | 1863 | 1958 | Novelist, historian | Stories of the Land of Evangeline |
Ian Rogers | 1976 | supernatural and horror fiction | Every House Is Haunted | |
Linda Rogers | 1944 | |||
Richard Rohmer | 1924 | |||
Mathieu Rolland | 1989 | novelist | Souvenir de Night, De grandes personnes | |
Leon Rooke | 1934 | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog, A Bolt of White Cloth | |
Patrick Roscoe | 1967 | novelist, short stories | Birthmarks, God's Peculiar Care | |
Rose Reisman | nutritiology writer | Manhattan's Dessert Scene: New York City's Top Dessert Spots Reveal Their Secret Recipes | ||
Rachel Rose | 1970 | poet | Song and Spectacle | |
Simon Rose | 1961 | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy | |
Rebecca Rosenblum | 1978 | short stories | Once | |
Leonard Rosmarin | novelist | |||
Sinclair Ross | 1908 | 1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial |
Stuart Ross | 1959 | poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent | |
Nancy-Gay Rotstein | poet, novelist | |||
Jeffrey Round | poet, mysteries | The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain | ||
Andrea Routley | short stories | Jane and the Whales | ||
André Roy | 1944 | poet, critic | Action writing | |
Gabrielle Roy | 1909 | 1983 | novelist | The Tin Flute, Children of My Heart |
Holley Rubinsky | 1943 | 2015 | novelist, short stories | At First I Hope For Rescue, Rapid Transits and Other Stores, Beyond This Point |
Jane Rule | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Desert of the Heart |
Alexei Maxim Russell | 1976 | novelist | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective | |
Harley Rustad | 1985 | non-fiction author, journalist | Big Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death | |
Elizabeth Ruth | 1968 | novelist | Smoke | |
Naben Ruthnum | novelist, non-fiction | Curry: Reading, Eating and Race, Find You in the Dark | ||
Garry Ryan | mysteries, historical fiction | The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, Malabarista, Blackbirds | ||
George Ryga | 1932 | 1987 | playwright and novelist | The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
Geoff Ryman | 1951 |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Michelle Sagara | 1963 | fantasy | ||
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | playwright | Gas Girls, A Man A Fish | ||
Rodney Saint-Éloi | poet | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé | ||
Kerri Sakamoto | 1960 | novelist | The Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts | |
Mark Sakamoto | 1977 | memoirist | Forgiveness | |
Trish Salah | poet | Wanting in Arabic | ||
Rebecca Salazar | poet | sulphurtongue | ||
G. Herbert Sallans | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Little Man |
Rick Salutin | 1942 | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith | |
Laura G. Salverson | 1890 | 1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
Liselle Sambury | fantasy, young adult | Blood Like Magic | ||
Shelly Sanders | 1964 | novelist, journalist | The Rachel Trilogy | |
Susan Sanford Blades | novelist | Fake It So Real | ||
Robyn Sarah | 1949 | poet, short stories | Promise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me | |
Mairuth Sarsfield | 1925 | 2013 | novelist | No Crystal Stair |
Jocelyne Saucier | 1948 | novelist | Il pleuvait des oiseaux | |
John Ralston Saul | 1947 | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization | |
Gloria Sawai | 1932 | 2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
Robert J. Sawyer | 1960 | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax, Calculating God, Flashforward, Rollback | |
Arthur Scaife | 1855 | 1934 | short stories, novelist, poetry | Three Letters of Credit and Other Stories |
Dominique Scali | novelist | À la recherche de New Babylon | ||
Alan Scarfe | 1946 | novelist | The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit | |
Jacob Scheier | 1980 | poet | More to Keep Us Warm | |
Libby Scheier | 1946 | 2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
Diane Schoemperlen | 1954 | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion | |
Stephen Scobie | 1943 | poet | McAlmon's Chinese Opera | |
Anakana Schofield | 1971 | novelist | Malarky | |
Adam Lewis Schroeder | novelist, short stories | In the Fabled East | ||
Andreas Schroeder | 1946 | |||
Gregory Scofield | 1966 | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel | |
Chris Scott | 1945 | novelist | Antichthon, Jack | |
Duncan Campbell Scott | 1862 | 1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
Frank Scott | 1899 | 1985 | poet | |
Gail Scott | 1945 | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error | |
Jordan Scott | poet | Silt, blert, Night & Ox | ||
R.T.M. Scott | 1882 | 1966 | novelist | Secret Service Smith |
Richard Scrimger | children's writer, novelist | |||
Jasmine Sealy | novelist, short stories | The Island of Forgetting | ||
Djanet Sears | 1959 | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | |
Paul Seesequasis | novelist, journalist | Tobacco Wars, Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun | ||
Benjamin Sehene | 1959 | novelist, essayist, political writer | ||
Sarah Selecky | 1974 | short stories | This Cake Is for the Party | |
Bev Sellars | memoirist | They Called Me Number One | ||
Shyam Selvadurai | 1965 | novelist | Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens | |
Bruce Serafin | 2007 | creative non-fiction | Stardust | |
Robert W. Service | 1874 | 1958 | poet | The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
Ernest Thompson Seton | 1860 | 1946 | ||
Mark Shainblum | 1963 | |||
Lionel Shapiro | 1908 | 1958 | novelist, journalist | The Sixth Of June, They Left The Back Door Open |
Leanne Shapton | 1973 | graphic novelist | Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry | |
Gaurav Sharma | 1992 | novelist, author | God of the Sullied, Gone are the Days, The Indian Story of an Author | |
Sarah Sheard | 1953 | |||
Sheung-King | novelist | You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. | ||
Murphy O. Shewchuk | 1943 | writer, photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails, Coquihalla Trips and Trails, Cariboo Trips and Trails | |
Francis Sherman | 1871 | 1926 | poet | |
Valerie Sherrard | 1957 | children's and young adult literature | The Glory Wind | |
Carol Shields | 1935 | 2003 | novelist, short stories | The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party |
Erin Shields | playwright | If We Were Birds | ||
Aki Shimazaki | 1954 | |||
Ann Shin | poet, novelist, filmmaker | The Last Exiles | ||
Adam Shortt | 1859 | 1931 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
Vivek Shraya | 1981 | short stories | God Loves Hair | |
Eric Siblin | journalist, music writer | The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece | ||
Maggie Siggins | 1942 | historian, biographies | Riel | |
Antanas Sileika | 1953 | novels, fiction, essays | Buying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller | |
Ana Siljak | historian | Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World | ||
Makeda Silvera | 1955 | The Heart Does Not Bend | ||
Louise Simard | 1950 | |||
Jessie Sime | 1868 | 1958 | Novelist | Our Little Life |
Bren Simmers | 1976 | poet | Night Gears | |
Merilyn Simonds | 1949 | creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror, The Paradise Project | |
Colin Simpson | ||||
Bardia Sinaee | poet | Intruder | ||
Andy Sinclair | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons | ||
Jaspreet Singh | 1969 | |||
Mark Sinnett | novelist, poet, short stories | The Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore | ||
George Sipos | memoirist, poet | The Geography of Arrival, Anything But the Moon | ||
Johanna Skibsrud | 1980 | novelist, poet | The Sentimentalists | |
Marsha Skrypuch | 1954 | young adult, children's fiction, narrative non-fiction | Making Bombs for Hitler, Stolen Child, Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War | |
Josef Skvorecky | 1924 | 2012 | novelist, essayist | The Engineer of Human Souls |
Joshua Slocum | 1844 | 1909 | ||
Carolyn Smart | 1952 | poet | Hooked | |
Elizabeth Smart | 1913 | 1986 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | |
Gwen Smid | 1979 | fiction, picture books | Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario | |
Jean Edward Smith | 1932 | 2019 | ||
Michael V. Smith | novelist | Cumberland | ||
Neil Smith | 1964 | short stories | Bang Crunch | |
Russell Smith | 1963 | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent | |
Carrie Snyder | short stories | Hair Hat, The Juliet Stories | ||
Mary Soderstrom | 1942 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond | |
Caro Soles | mystery, science fiction, fantasy, erotica | Drag Queen in the Court of Death | ||
Evan Solomon | 1968 | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance | |
Madeline Sonik | 1960 | |||
J. Dewey Soper | 1893 | 1982 | naturalist | |
Carolyn Marie Souaid | 1959 | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood | |
Gaétan Soucy | 1958 | 2013 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
Raymond Souster | 1921 | 2012 | poet | |
Esta Spalding | ||||
Linda Spalding | 1943 | The Follow,The Purchase | ||
Rae Spoon | songwriter, short stories | First Spring Grass Fire | ||
Michelle Spring | 1947 | sociologist, mystery fiction | Every Breath You Take, Standing in the Shadows, In the Midnight Hour | |
Birk Sproxton | 1943 | 2007 | ||
Amy Spurway | novelist | Crow | ||
Eva Stachniak | 1952 | novelist | Necessary Lies, The Winter Garden | |
Edna Staebler | 1906 | 2006 | journalist, Mennonite cooking | Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series |
Harold Standish | 1919 | 1972 | poet, novelist | |
Ted Staunton | 1956 | children's literature, picture books | Puddleman, Who I'm Not, Harry and Clare’s Amazing Staycation | |
Robert Stead | 1880 | 1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
John Steffler | 1947 | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | |
Fred Stenson | 1951 | |||
Alexander Maitland Stephen | 1882 | 1942 | poet, novelist | The Rosary Of Pan, The Kingdom Of The Sun |
Arran Stephens | 1944 | The Compassionate Diet | ||
Angela Sterritt | journalist | Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls' | ||
Richard Stevenson | 1952 | |||
Robin Stevenson | children's/young adult literature | |||
Shannon Stewart | poet, children's literature | |||
Walter Stewart | 1941 | 2004 | journalist, editor | |
Bill Stilwell | ||||
Kathy Stinson | 1952 | |||
John Elizabeth Stintzi | poet, novelist | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat | ||
Cassie Stocks | novelist | Dance, Gladys, Dance | ||
Aryeh Lev Stollman | 1954 | novelist, short stories | The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul | |
Anne Stone | Indelible | |||
Arthur G. Storey | 1915 | 2005 | novelist | Prairie Harvest |
Allan Stratton | 1951 | playwright | ||
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer | 1874 | 1950 | screenwriter, novelist | |
Cordelia Strube | 1960 | novelist, dramatist | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon | |
Alan Sullivan | 1868 | 1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
Moez Surani | 1979 | poet | Reticent Bodies | |
Rajiv Surendra | 1989 | memoirist | The Elephants in My Backyard | |
Joel A. Sutherland | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Frozen Blood | |
David Suzuki | 1936 | scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host | The Sacred Balance, Genethics, The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future | |
Mary Swan | 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Boys in the Trees | |
Susan Swan | 1945 | |||
Anna Swanson | poet | The Nights Also | ||
Robert Sward | 1933 | |||
Margaret Sweatman | 1953 | novelist | Fox, The Players | |
George Swede | 1940 | |||
Alastair Sweeny | 1946 | |||
Michael Ernest Sweet | 1979 | poetry, essay, nonfiction | ||
Guy Sylvestre | 1918 | 2010 | journalist, critic | |
Olivier Sylvestre | 1982 | playwright, short stories | La beauté du monde, La loi de la gravité, Noms fictifs | |
Harry L. Symons | 1892 | 1962 | novelist, humorist | Ojibway Melody |
Scott Symons | 1933 | 2009 | novelist, journalist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square |
Shawn Syms | 1970 | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar | |
George Szanto | 1940 | novels, short stories, criticism, biography, plays | Not Working, Friends & Marriages, Theater and Propaganda, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island, Bog Tender | |
Gillian Sze | poet | Quiet Night Think | ||
Anne Szumigalski | 1922 | 1999 | poet | Voice |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Tanya Talaga | journalist | Seven Fallen Feathers | ||
Kenneth Tam | 1984 | novelist | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series | |
Mariko Tamaki | 1975 | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist | Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire | |
Darcy Tamayose | novelist, short stories | Odori, Ezra's Ghosts | ||
Shelley Tanaka | 1950 | editor, children's non-fiction | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic | |
Jordan Tannahill | 1988 | playwright | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company | |
Olivia Tapiero | 1990 | novelist | Les Murs, Rien du tout | |
Jules-Paul Tardivel | 1851 | 1905 | ||
Dennis E. Taylor | novelist, short stories | Bobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap | ||
Gladys Taylor | 1917 | 2015 | novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor | Pine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom |
Timothy Taylor | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park | |
Saeed Teebi | short stories | Her First Palestinian | ||
Ningeokuluk Teevee | 1963 | children's literature | Alego | |
Wayne Tefs | 1947 | 2014 | ||
Richard Teleky | 1944 | novelist, poet, short stories, non-fiction | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon | |
Charles Templeton | 1915 | 2001 | ||
John Terpstra | 1953 | poet | ||
Bill Terry | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven | ||
Adeline Margaret Tesky | 1855 | 1924 | novelist, short stories | Where the Sugar Maple Grows |
Souvankham Thammavongsa | 1978 | poet, short stories | Small Arguments, Light, How to Pronounce Knife | |
Yasuko Thanh | 1971 | novelist, short stories | Floating Like the Dead | |
France Théoret | 1942 | novelist, poet | L'homme qui peignait Staline, Cruauté du jeu | |
Denis Thériault | 1959 | |||
Yves Thériault | 1915 | 1983 | novelist, short stories | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
Sharon Thesen | 1946 | poet | The Good Bacteria | |
Serge Patrice Thibodeau | 1959 | poet | Le Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague | |
Madeleine Thien | 1974 | short stories, novelist | Simple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter | |
Kai Cheng Thom | 1991 | novelist, poet | a place called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars | |
Audrey Thomas | 1935 | novelist | Songs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa | |
Colin Thomas | 1939 | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion | |
Joan Thomas | 1949 | novelist | Reading by Lightning, Curiosity, The Opening Sky, Five Wives | |
Kai Thomas | novelist | In the Upper Country | ||
Clayton Thomas-Müller | memoirist | Life in the City of Dirty Water | ||
John Thompson | 1938 | 1976 | ||
Peggy Thompson | 1901 | 2009 | screenwriter | The Lotus Eaters, Better Than Chocolate |
Jan Thornhill | 1955 | children's literature, science | I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC | |
Elizabeth Thornton | 1940 | 2010 | ||
Russell Thornton | 1959 | poet | House Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | |
Kim Thúy | 1968 | novelist | Ru | |
Matthew Tierney | 1970 | poet | Probably Inevitable | |
Sara Tilley | 1978 | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke | |
Miriam Toews | 1964 | novelist | A Complicated Kindness, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows | |
Morley Torgov | 1927 | |||
Lola Lemire Tostevin | ||||
Gérald Tougas | 1933 | 2019 | novelist, short stories | La Mauvaise foi, Le deuxième train de la nuit |
Paul Toupin | 1918 | 1993 | playwright, essayist, memoirist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain |
William Toye | 1926 | 2024 | author, editor | Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson |
Matthew J. Trafford | short stories | The Divinity Gene | ||
Michaël Trahan | 1984 | poet | Nœud coulant, La raison des fleurs | |
Catharine Parr Traill | 1802 | 1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
Rhea Tregebov | 1953 | poet | Remembering History | |
Lise Tremblay | 1957 | |||
Michel Tremblay | 1942 | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs | |
Sylvain Trudel | 1963 | novelist | ||
Stuart Trueman | 1911 | 1995 | journalist, humorist, historian | You're Only as Old as You Act |
Brian Tucker | novelist | Big White Knuckles | ||
Aren X. Tulchinsky | 1958 | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature | |
Élise Turcotte | 1957 | |||
Roxane Turcotte | 1952 | children's and youth literature writer | Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre | |
Pierre Turgeon | 1947 | novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher | The First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983 | |
Chris Turner | 1973 | non-fiction | Planet Simpson, The Geography of Hope | |
Michael Turner | 1962 | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo | |
Arielle Twist | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Andrew Unger | 1979 | novelist, satirist | Once Removed, The Daily Bonnet | |
Marie Uguay | 1955 | 1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
Priscila Uppal | 1974 | 2018 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
Emily Urquhart | 1977 | non-fiction | Beyond the Pale, Ordinary Wonder Tales, The Age of Creativity | |
Jane Urquhart | 1949 | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers | |
Geoffrey Ursell | 1943 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie |
David UU (David W. Harris) | 1948 | 1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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W. D. Valgardson | 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 | 1962 | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf | |
Richard Van Camp | 1971 | novelist, short stories, children's literature | The Lesser Blessed | |
Guy Vanderhaeghe | 1951 | novelist, short stories | The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing | |
Aritha Van Herk | 1954 | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address | |
Kasia Van Schaik | novelist | We Have Never Lived on Earth | ||
A. E. van Vogt | 1912 | 2000 | science fiction | Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom |
Jean Vanier | 1928 | 2019 | theologian | Becoming Human |
Anuja Varghese | short stories | Chrysalis | ||
Sugith Varughese | 1957 | playwright, film and television | The Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones | |
M. G. Vassanji | 1950 | novelist | The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall | |
Caelum Vatnsdal | 1970 | film history | They Came From Within, You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me | |
R. M. Vaughan | 1965 | 2020 | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells |
Guillermo Verdecchia | 1962 | playwright | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures | |
Robert Verdun | non-fiction, investigative reporting | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada | ||
Paul Vermeersch | 1973 | poet | Burn | |
Katherena Vermette | 1977 | poet, children's literature | North End Love Songs | |
Nancy Vickers | 1946 | novelist, poet | Capharnaum | |
Gilles Vigneault | 1928 | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé | |
Margaret Visser | 1940 | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate | |
Claude Vivier | 1948 | 1983 | composer, poet, librettist | Kopernikus, Lonely Child, Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire |
Élisabeth Vonarburg | 1947 | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères | |
Garth Von Buchholz | 1968 | poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems | |
John Voss | 1858 | 1922 | memoirs | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss |
Peter Vronsky | 1956 | investigative historian, filmmaker | Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Female Serial Killers, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, Ridgeway: The Fenian-American Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 | |
Caroline Vu | 1959 | fiction | Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown | |
Prvoslav Vujcic | 1960 | poet, author | Thoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind | |
Dan Vyleta | 1974 | novelist, historian | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Marie Wadden | non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan | ||
Tracey Waddleton | short stories | Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious | ||
Mark Sweeten Wade | 1858 | 1929 | historian | The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62 |
Richard Wagamese | 1955 | 2017 | novelist | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk |
Colleen Wagner | 1949 | playwright | The Monument | |
Fred Wah | 1939 | poet, novelist | Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan | |
David Walker | 1911 | 1992 | novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
Joan Walker | novelist | Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure | ||
Aimee Wall | novelist | We, Jane | ||
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 |
William Stewart Wallace | 1884 | 1970 | historian | The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
Paul A. W. Wallace | 1891 | 1967 | historian, anthropologist | Indians in Pennsylvania |
Tom Walmsley | 1948 | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin | |
Natalie Zina Walschots | 1983 | novelist, poet | Hench | |
Eric Walters | 1957 | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run | |
John Leigh Walters | 1933 | creative non-fiction | A Very Capable Life | |
Jack Wang | short stories | We Two Alone | ||
Russell Wangersky | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica | ||
Ryan Ward | 1990 | screenwriter | Son of the Sunshine | |
Sabrina Ward Harrison | 1975 | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open | |
Dianne Warren | 1950 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water | |
David Watmough | 1926 | 2017 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
Paul Watson | 1950 | conservationist, author, activist, poet | Earth Force, Earth Force 2, The War that Saved the Whales, Quotations, Songs from the Southern Ocean, Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity, The Haunted Mariner, Dealing with Climate Change and Stress, Orcapedia, Captain Paul Watson: Interview With a Pirate, Urgence! Il Faut Sauver Les Océans, Seal Wars, Ocean Warrior | |
Sheila Watson | 1909 | 1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
Alison Watt | 1957 | creative non-fiction, poet | The Last Island | |
Thomas Waugh | 1948 | academic, art and film historian | Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection | |
Alison Wearing | 1967 | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah | |
Jessica L. Webb | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions | ||
Barry Webster | 1961 | novels, short stories; magic realism | The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones | |
Andrew Wedderburn | novelist | The Milk Chicken Bomb | ||
John Weier | 1949 | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree | |
Matthew James Weigel | poet | Whitemud Walking | ||
Steve Weiner | 1947 | novelist | The Museum of Love | |
William Weintraub | 1926 | 2017 | ||
Helen Weinzweig | 1915 | 2010 | novelist, short stories | Basic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof |
Merrily Weisbord | journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror | ||
Elizabeth Wellburn | 1955 | children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
Zachariah Wells | 1976 | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled | |
Andrea Werhun | memoirist | Modern Whore | ||
Martin West | novelist, short stories | Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, Long Ride Yellow | ||
Andrew Westoll | science, travel, non-fiction | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary | ||
Robert Paul Weston | 1975 | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City | |
Michael Wex | 1954 | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist | |
Ron Weyman | 1915 | 2007 | television, mystery, memoir | Sherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast, Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise, Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West |
Dawud Wharnsby | 1972 | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist | |
Thomas Wharton | 1963 | novelist | Salamander, Icefields | |
Sherry White | screenwriter | Crackie, Down to the Dirt | ||
Joshua Whitehead | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed | ||
William Whitehead | 1931 | 2018 | documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
Douglas Whiteway | novelist, journalist | Father Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead | ||
Zoe Whittall | 1976 | |||
Armin Wiebe | 1948 | novelist, playwright | The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Tatsea | |
Rudy Wiebe | 1934 | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many | |
Audrée Wilhelmy | 1985 | novelist | Oss, Les Sangs | |
Helen Waldstein Wilkes | 1936 | creative non-fiction | Letters from the Lost | |
Elyse Willems | 1986 | children's literature | A Night in Halloween House | |
Fred Williams | 1863 | 1944 | journalism, history | The Canadian Book of Days |
Jeffery Williams | 1920 | 2011 | military historian | Byng of Vimy, Far from Home |
Deborah Willis | 1982 | fiction writer | Vanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories | |
Jenny Heijun Wills | memoirist | Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related | ||
Alan R. Wilson | novelist, poet | Before the Flood | ||
Anne Elizabeth Wilson | 1901 | 1946 | poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer | Eager Footsteps |
Antoine Wilson | 1971 | novelist | Panorama City, Mouth to Mouth | |
Douglas Wilson | 1950 | 1992 | novelist, poet | Labour of Love |
Eric Wilson | 1940 | mysteries | Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books) | |
Ethel Wilson | 1888 | 1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
John Wilson | 1951 | historical fiction | Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning | |
Jonathan Wilson | playwright | My Own Private Oshawa, Kilt | ||
Robert Charles Wilson | 1953 | science fiction | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin | |
Sheri-D Wilson | 1958 | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder | |
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang | 1983 | novelist | Small Beauty | |
Carol Windley | 1947 | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling | |
Rob Winger | 1974 | poet | Muybridge's Horse | |
Kathleen Winter | 1960 | novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel | |
Michael Winter | 1965 | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why | |
Kari-Lynn Winters | 1969 | children's literature, dramatist | Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk | |
Wyndham Wise | 1947 | film critic and historian | Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film | |
Adele Wiseman | 1928 | 1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
Christina Wong | novelist, playwright | Denison Avenue | ||
Lindsay Wong | memoirist | The Woo Woo | ||
Alan Woo | 1977 | children's literature, poet, short stories | Maggie's Chopsticks | |
Jaime Woo | non-fiction | Meet Grindr | ||
George Woodcock | 1912 | 1995 | poet, critic | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
Susan Wood | 1948 | 1980 | critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | Energumen; criticism |
Marnie Woodrow | 1969 | novelist | Spelling Mississippi | |
Grahame Woods | 1935 | novelist, screenwriter | Bloody Harvest, War Brides, Glory Enough for All | |
Lance Woolaver | 1948 | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange | |
Eric Wright | 1929 | 2015 | mysteries | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
J. F. C. Wright | 1904 | 1970 | journalist, historian | Slava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province |
L. R. Wright | 1939 | 2001 | mysteries | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
Richard B. Wright | 1937 | 2017 | novelist | Clara Callan |
Sarah Wylie | 1989 | novelist, young adult literature | All These Lives | |
Tim Wynne-Jones | 1948 | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro | |
Tim Wynveen | novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Xiaowen Zeng | journalist, short stories |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Joel Yanofsky | novelist | Jacob's Ladder | ||
Pierre Yergeau | 1957 | novelist | L'écrivain public | |
Ying Chen | 1961 | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile | |
Jean Yoon | 1962 | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project | |
Alissa York | 1970 | novelist, short stories | Effigy | |
Elwy Yost | 1925 | 2011 | mysteries | White Shadows |
Graham Yost | 1959 | screenwriter | Speed | |
David Young | 1946 | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn | |
d'bi young | 1977 | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story | |
Ian Young | 1945 | poet, non-fiction, journalist | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature | |
Patricia Young | 1954 | poet, short stories | Ruin & Beauty, More Watery Still, Airstream | |
Scott Young | 1918 | 2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mysteries | A Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate |
Terence Young | 1953 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Island in Winter, Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake's | |
Josée Yvon | 1950 | 1994 | poet, playwright | Danseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees |
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editName | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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A. Light Zachary | poet | More Sure | ||
Eve Zaremba | 1930 | mysteries | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect | |
Robert Zend | 1929 | 1985 | poet, fiction, multimedia artist | Daymares, Oāb |
Xiran Jay Zhao | Novelist | Iron Widow | ||
David Zieroth | 1946 | poet | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn | |
Larry Zolf | 1934 | 2011 | journalist | Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale |
Syd Zolf | 1968 | poet | Human Resources, Masque | |
Daniel Zomparelli | poet, short stories | Davie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person | ||
Carolyn Zonailo | 1947 | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems | |
Jan Zwicky | 1955 | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |
See also
edit- 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 Canadian women writers in French
- List of Quebec writers
- List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
- List of famous Canadians
- Lists of authors
Further reading
edit- Heath, Jeffrey M (1991), Profiles in Canadian Literature, Volume 7, Dundurn Press, ISBN 1-55002-145-1
- 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
External links
edit- Introduction - Canadian Writers - Library and Archives Canada
- Canadian Writers - Athabasca University