List of Canadian writers

Last updated

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

Contents

A

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Irving Abella 19402022historian None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948
Louise Abbott 1950non fiction author, photographer, filmmakerThe Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence
Jordan Abel poet, novelistEmpty Spaces, The Place of Scraps
Mark Abley 1955poet, journalistSpoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Carolyn Abraham 1968journalist, non-fictionPossessing 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 1952playwright, novelist, journalist
Janice Acoose 19542020journalistIskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak
Milton Acorn 19231986poetThe Island Means Minago
José Acquelin 1956poetAnarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable
Ken Adachi 19291989historian, criticThe Enemy That Never Was
Barry D. Adam 1952sociologist
Evan Adams 1966dramatistDreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River
Ian Adams 19372021novelist, non-fictionAgent of Influence
Mary Electa Adams 18231898poetFrom Distant Shores
Gil Adamson 1961novelist, short stories, poetThe Outlander
Caroline Adderson 1963novelist, short storiesBad Imaginings, Sitting Practice
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler horrorWrist, Ghost Lake
Marie-Célie Agnant 1953poet, novelistLe Silence comme le sang
Freda Ahenakew 19322011linguist, children's literature
Jean Marc Ah-Sen novelist, short storiesGrand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts
Kate Aitken 18911971journalist, cooking enthusiastKate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book
Kelley Aitken 1954short storiesLove in a Warm Climate
Will Aitken 1949novelist, journalist Terre Haute , Realia
Donald Akenson 1941novelist, historian
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm 1965poetMy Heart is a Stray Bullet
Omar El Akkad 1982novelist American War , What Strange Paradise
Linda Aksomitis 1954children's literature Adeline's Dream
Kamal Al-Solaylee 1964journalistIntolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Donald Alarie 1945poetJérôme et les mots
Robert Arthur Alexie 19572014novelistPorcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian
André Alexis 1957novelist, journalist, short storiesChildhood, Asylum, Pastoral
Edna Alford 1947poet
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali 1985memoiristAngry Queer Somali Boy
Nada Alic 1986short storiesBad Thoughts
Sandra Alland 1973poet, journalist
Donna Allard 1956poet
Charlotte Vale Allen
(also known as Katherine Marlowe)
1941romantic novels, expert on child abuse
Grant Allen 18481899science writer, novelist The Woman Who Did
Harper Allen romantic fiction
Lillian Allen 1951poetRhythm an' Hardtimes
Ralph Allen 19131966novelist, journalistPeace River Country
Robert Thomas Allen 19111990humorist, children's literatureThe Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life
Tom Allen 1964creative non-fiction Rolling Home
Paul Almond 19312015novelist, screenwriter
Anne-Marie Alonzo 19512005poetBleus de mine
Lisa Alward 1962short storiesCocktail
George Amabile 1936poet
William Lacey Amy 18771962writer'Blue Pete' series
Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard)19061986autobiographerDevil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl
Marguerite Andersen 19242022poetCourts métrages et instantanés
Debra Anderson novelist, playwrightCode White
Doris Anderson 19212007journalistThe Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter
Enza Anderson 1964journalist
Gordon Stewart Anderson 19581991novelistThe Toronto You Are Leaving
Hugh Anderson 18901965playwright Auld Lang Syne
Patrick Anderson 19151979poet
Rod Anderson 1935poet, accounting texts
Trevor Anderson 1972screenwriter
Gail Anderson-Dargatz 1963novelistThe Cure for Death by Lightning
Maryse Andraos 1988novelistSans refuge
Michael Andre 1946poet
François-Réal Angers 18121860legal textsDécisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada
Vincent Anioke short storiesPerfect Little Angels
Trey Anthony 1974playwright Da Kink in My Hair
Salvatore Antonio 1976playwright In Gabriel's Kitchen
Marianne Apostolides novelist, memoiristSwim, Voluptuous Pleasure
Lisa Appignanesi 1946novelist, biographerLosing the Dead: A Family Memoir
Emmanuel Aquin 1968novelist
Hubert Aquin 19291977novelist Prochain épisode
Nelly Arcan 19732009novelistPutain
Gilles Archambault 1933novelistL'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions
Bert Archer 1968journalist, essayistThe End of Gay
Richard Arès 19101989
Tammy Armstrong 1974novelist, poetBogman's Music
Jeannette Armstrong 1948novelist, poetSlash
Kelley Armstrong 1968horror fiction Women of the Otherworld
Rebecca Agatha Armour 18451891novelist, local historianLady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton
David Arnason 1940poet, novelist, historianThe Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg
Daniel Arnold playwright, screenwriter Lawrence & Holloman , Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Joanne Arnott 1960poet, children's literatureWiles of Girlhood
Lawrence Aronovitch 1974playwright
Nina Arsenault 1974
Ryad Assani-Razaki 1981novels, short storiesDeux cercles, La main d'Iman
Bernard Assiniwi 19352000novelist, essayist, journalistLa Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde
Damien Atkins 1975playwrightReal Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project
Diana Atkinson 1964novelistHighways and Dancehalls
Margaret Atwood 1939novelist, poet, critic The Handmaid's Tale , Alias Grace , Surfacing
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé 18141841novelist L'influence d'un livre
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé 17861871novelist, memoirist
Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot)19472012novelist, short storiesCet imperceptible mouvement
Jean-Paul Audet 19181993theologian
Noël Audet 19382005poet, novelistAh, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier
Larry Audlaluk 1953memoiristWhat I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile
Ashley Audrain 1982novelist
Jonathan Auxier 1981young adult literatureThe Night Gardener
François Avard 1968screenwriter Les Bougon
Susan Avingaq 1942screenwriter, children's literature Before Tomorrow , Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil
Margaret Avison 19182007poetThe Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Mona Awad 1978novelist, short stories13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Edem Awumey 1975novelistPort-Mélo, Les Pieds sales
Makram Ayache playwrightHarun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
Malcolm Azania 1969science fiction The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Caroline Azar playwrightThe Surreal Detective

B

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Todd Babiak novelistThe Garneau Block
Ken Babstock 1970poetMean, Airstream Land Yacht
Mette Bach novelist, screenwriter
Elizabeth Bachinsky 1976poet
Aaron Badgley 1964non-fiction, biographer Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label
Britta Badour poetWires That Sputter
Bruce Bagemihl 1962scienceBiological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Pierre Baillargeon 19161967novelistLe scandale est nécessaire
Martha Baillie 1960novelistThe Incident Report
Irene Baird 19011981novelist, poetry, journalistWaste Heritage
Jacqueline Baker 1967novelist, short storiesA Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours
R. Scott Bakker 1967fantasy Prince of Nothing
Sharon Bala 1979novelist, short storiesThe Boat People
Shauna Singh Baldwin 1962novelistWhat the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw
John Ballem 19252010novelist
Winifred Bambrick 18921969novelistContinental Revue
Catherine Banks c.1960playwrightBone Cage
Himani Bannerji 1942poet, academicDark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism
Kaushalya Bannerji poet
Gary Bannerman 19472011non-fictionSquandering Billions
Nick Bantock 1949novelist Griffin and Sabine
Simina Banu poetPop, I Will Get Up Off Of
Marius Barbeau 18831969academic, folklorist
Raymond Barbeau 19301992essayist, literary critic
Victor Barbeau 18961994
Bruce Barber 1950art criticVoices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State
Joan Barfoot 1946novelistDancing in the Dark, Luck
Keith Barker playwrightThe Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here
Leslie Gordon Barnard 18901961short stories, fiction
Robert Barr 18491912novelist, short stories, humorist The Measure of the Rule , The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Laurent Barré 18861964novelist
Joelle Barron poetRitual Lights
James Bartleman 19392023memoirist, young adult literatureRaisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow
John Barton 1957poetDesigns from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis
Gary Barwin 1964novelist, children's literature, poetSeeing Stars
Earl W. Bascom 19061995cowboy historianThe History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding
Rodrigo Bascunan 1976non-fictionEnter The Babylon System
Jean Basile 19321992novelist, essayistLa Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk
Michel Basilières 1960novelistBlack Bird
Gurjinder Basran 1972novelistEverything Was Good-bye
Karen Bass 1962young adult fictionGraffiti Knight
Frédéric Bastien 1972historian, journalistLa Bataille de Londres
Arjun Basu novelist, short storiesSquishy, Waiting for the Man
Andrew Battershill novelistPillow
Claire Battershill short storiesCircus
Bill Bauer 19322010poetThe Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Nancy Bauer 1934arts journalistFlora, Write This Down
Jeremy Bates 1978novelist (suspense/horror)Suicide Forest
Eli Baxter 1954memoiristAki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
Kevin Bazzana 1963music historianWondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Tara Beagan 1975playwrightThy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace
Yves Beauchemin 1941novelistJuliette Pomerleau, Le Matou
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu 1945novelist, playwright
Doug Beardsley 1941poetDancing Star
Jeann Beattie 19222005novelist, journalistBlaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps
Deni Ellis Béchard 1974novelist Vandal Love
Peter Behrens 1954novelist, screenwriter, short-stories The Law of Dreams
Henry Beissel 1929non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translatorUnder Coyote's Eye
Jennifer Bélanger 1991novelistMenthol
Billy-Ray Belcourt poet, memoiristThis Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body
Ken Belford 19462020poetPathways into the Mountains
Donald Bell 19372003journalist, humoristSaturday Night at the Bagel Factory
William E. Bell 19452016children's literature Forbidden City
Winthrop Pickard Bell 18841965historianThe "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia
Lesley Belleau poetIndianland
Martin Bellemare playwrightLe chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral
Paul Bellini 1959screenwriter, comedy
John Bemrose 1947journalist, novelist, playwright, poetThe Island Walkers
Gwen Benaway poetCeremonies for the Dead, Passage
Djemila Benhabib 1972journalist, non-fictionMa vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
Nigel Bennett 1949fantasy novelistKeeper of the King, His Father's Son
Roxanna Bennett poetUnmeaningable
David Bergen 1957novelist The Time in Between , A Year of Lesser
S. Bear Bergman 1974playwright, poet
David Berman 1962non-fiction Do Good Design
Christophe Bernard 1982novelistLa bête creuse
Jovette Bernier 19001981journalist, novelist, poetNon Monsieur
Sarah Bernstein 1987novelistStudy for Obedience
Kris Bertin short storiesBad Things Happen
Pierre Berton 19202004historian, journalist, memoirist The National Dream , The Last Spike
Dennison Berwick 1956adventure travelSavages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges
Gérard Bessette 19202005novelistLe libraire, Le Cycle
H. S. Bhabra 19552000novelistThe Adversary, Bad Money
Navtej Bharati poet, publisher Third Eye PressLeela
Shashi Bhat novelist, short storiesThe Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth
Dave Bidini 1963journalist, non-fiction, songwriterAround the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey
Anthony Bidulka 1962mysteriesFlight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu
Nicolas Billon 1978playwright, screenwriterThe Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher
Pierre Billon 1937novelist, screenwriter
Brandi Bird poetThe All + Flesh
Will R. Bird 18911984novelist, non-fictionHere Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen
Sandra Birdsell 1942novelist, short storiesThe Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf
Earle Birney 19041995poet, novelist, playwright, short storiesDavid and Other Poems, Turvey
Charlotte Biron 1990novelistJardin radio
Carol Bishop-Gwyn biographer, arts journalistThe Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
Bill Bissett 1939experimental poetnobody owns th earth
Lise Bissonnette 1945novelist, journalistMarie suivait l'été, Choses crus
Neil Bissoondath 1955novelistA Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions
Persimmon Blackbridge 1951non-fiction, novelistProzac Highway
George G. Blackburn 19172006creative non-fiction The Guns of Normandy
Marthe Blackburn 19161991screenwriter, dramatist A Scream from Silence , Beyond Forty , Le retour de l’âge
Peggy Blair non-fiction, novelistLament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera
Marie-Claire Blais 19392021novelist, playwright, poet Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel , La Belle Bête
Clark Blaise 1940novelist, short stories, memoiristLunar Attractions, Montreal Stories
Cassandra Blanchard poetFresh Pack of Smokes
Robin Blaser 19252009essayist, poet
Christie Blatchford 19512020journalist, writer and broadcasterFifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Lance Blomgren 1970short stories, essays Walkups , Corner Pieces
Patricia Blondal 19261959fiction, poetA Candle to Light the Sun
Lise Blouin 1944novelistL'Ors des fous
Michael Blouin 1960novelist, poetChase and Haven, Wore Down Trust
Martha Blum 19132007historical fictionThe Walnut Tree, The Apothecary
Giles Blunt 1952mysteries, screenwriter Forty Words for Sorrow , Blackfly Season
Ali Blythe poetTwoism
Selina Boan poetUndoing Hours
Adam Bock 1961playwrightThe Receptionist, The Drunken City
Dennis Bock 1964novelist, short stories The Ash Garden
Maxime Raymond Bock 1981novelist, short storiesAtavismes, Les noyades secondaires
Michel Bock 1971historian, non-fictionQuand la nation débordait les frontières
Fred Bodsworth 19182012journalist, naturalist The Last of the Curlews
Christian Bök 1966poet Eunoia
Stephanie Bolster 1969poetWhite Stone: The Alice Poems
Carol Bolt 19412000playwrightBuffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists
Kenneth Bonert 1972novelist, short storiesThe Lion Seeker
Shane Book poetCeiling of Sticks, Congotronic
Walter Borden 1942playwright, poet
Kathryn Borel 1979memoiristCorked
Roo Borson 1952poetShort Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
Monique Bosco 19272007journalist, novelist, poet, short storiesLa femme de Loth
Gérard Bouchard 1943non-fiction, novelistGenèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde
Michel Marc Bouchard 1958playwright Lilies , The Orphan Muses
Paul Bouchard 19081997journalist
Eddy Boudel Tan novelistAfter Elias, The Rebellious Tide
Marsha Boulton 1952humorist, journalistLetters from the Country
Hédi Bouraoui 1932poet, novelistVésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes
Pierre Bourgault 19342003essayist, journalist
Arthur Bourinot 18931969poetUnder the Sun
Pan Bouyoucas 1946novelist, playwright, poetThe Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea
Gail Bowen 1942novelist, playwrightJoanne Kilbourn series
George Bowering 1935biographer, novelist, poetThe Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water
Marilyn Bowering 1949poet, novelist, playwrightVisible Worlds, Autobiography
Cedar Bowers novelist, short storiesAstra
Bonnie Bowman novelistSkin
Randy Boyagoda 1976novelist, non-fictionGovernor of the Northern Province
David Boyd 1951children's literatureBottom Drawer
George Boyd 19522020playwright, screenwriterConsecrated Ground
Joseph Boyden 1966novelist, short stories Three Day Road , Through Black Spruce , The Orenda
Frances Boyle poet, short storiesSeeking Shade
Harry J. Boyle 19152005humorist, novelistHomebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish
D. M. Bradford poetDream of No One But Myself
Karleen Bradford 1936children's literatureThere Will Be Wolves
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite 19632008essayist, novelist, poet
Max Braithwaite 19111995novelist, non-fictionThe Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
Shannon Bramer 1973poetThe Refrigerator Memory
Alan Bradley 1938mysteryFlavia de Luce series
Dionne Brand 1953essayist, novelist, poetWhat We All Long For, Land to Light On
Di Brandt 1952poet, literary criticJerusalem, beloved, Now You Care
Beth Brant 19412015
André Brassard 1946screenwriter Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard
Marie Brassard playwright
Jacques Brault 1933poet, translatorQuand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin
Lois Braun 1949short storiesA Stone Watermelon
Morwyn Brebner playwright, television writerMusic for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope , Rookie Blue
Brian Brett 1950novelist, memoirist, poetUproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden
Krista Bridge novelist, short storiesThe Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls
Robert Bringhurst 1946poet, author, typographerThe Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major
Barry Broadfoot 19262003historianSix War Years, The Immigrant Years
Hélène Brodeur 19232010historical fictionLes chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario
Eve Brodlique 18671949author, journalistA Training School for Lovers
David Bromige 19332009poetMy Poetry
Frances Brooke 17241789novelist, essayist The History of Emily Montague
Bertram Brooker 18881955novelist, artist Think of the Earth
Carellin Brooks novelist, non-fictionOne Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach
Nicole Brossard 1943novelist, poetDouble impression, Méchanique jongleuse
Chrystine Brouillet 1958novelist, children's literature
Sigmund Brouwer 1959children's literatureWatch Out for Joel!
Charles Tory Bruce 19061971poet, novelist, journalistThe Mulgrave Road
Julie Bruck 1957poetThe Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch
Tyler Brûlé 1968journalist
Gaétan Brulotte 1945academic, novelist, playwright, short stories
Nick Brune 1952historianDefining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture
Carol Bruneau 1956novelistPurple for Sky
Louis-Ovide Brunet 18261876botany
Michel Brunet 19171985historianLes Canadiens après la conquête
Cathy Marie Buchanan 1963novelistThe Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls
Ernest Buckler 19081984novelistThe Mountain and the Valley
Margaret Buffie 1945children's literatureWho Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher
Gilbert Buote 18331904journalist
Kayt Burgess novelistHeidegger Stairwell
Tony Burgess 1959novelist, screenwriter Pontypool Changes Everything
Nathan Burgoine novelist, short storiesLight
Ronnie Burkett 1957playwrightTinka's New Dress
Mabel Burkholder 18811973historianBefore the white man came: Indian legends and stories
Bonnie Burnard 19452017novelistA Good House
Murdoch Burnett 19532015poetCentre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans
Richard Burnett journalist
Lawrence J. Burpee 18731946historianThe Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History
Mick Burrs 19402021poetVariations on the Birth of Jacob
Frank Christopher Busch 1978novelistGrey Eyes
Catherine Bush 1961novelistMinus Time, The Rules of Engagement
Arthur de Bussières 18771913poetLes Bengalis
Sharon Butala 1940novelistThe Perfection of the Morning
Alec Butler 1959playwrightBlack Friday
Michelle Butler Hallett novelist, short stories, non-fictionThis Marlowe, Constant Nobody

C

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Charmaine Cadeau poetPlaceholder
Cody Caetano memoiristHalf-Bads in White Regalia
Frank Oliver Call 18781956poet, travelAcanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth
Barry Callaghan 1937novelist, journalistBarrelhouse Kings
Morley Callaghan 19031990novelist, short storiesA Fine and Private Place
Anne Cameron 1938novelist, poet, short storiesDaughters of Copper Woman
Elspeth Cameron 1943biographerNo Previous Experience
George Frederick Cameron 18541885poet, lawyer, journalist Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta)
Silver Donald Cameron 19372020non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalistSailing Away From Winter
Curtis Campbell playwrightGay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Grace Campbell 18951963novelistThorn-apple Tree
Nicola I. Campbell poetry, children's literature, memoirShi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe
Natalee Caple 1970novelistThe Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World
Pat Capponi 19492020memoirist, mystery novelistUpstairs in the Crazy House
Cliff Cardinal playwrightThe Land Acknowledgement
Opal Carew 1956romantic novelistHis To Possess
Dave Carley 1953playwrightWriting With Our Feet
Louis Carmain 1983novelistGuano
Bliss Carman 18611929poetLow Tide on Grand Pré
Jean-François Caron 1978poet, novelistDe bois debout
Louis Caron 1942novelist, televisionL'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume
David Carpenter 1941novelist, poet, essayistA Hunter's Confession
Emily Carr 18711945novelist, short storiesKlee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands
Roch Carrier 1937novelist, short storiesLa Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey
Anne Carson 1950poet Autobiography of Red
Anne Laurel Carter 1953children's fiction The Shepherd's Granddaughter
Allan Casey non-fictionLakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Kate Cayley novelist, dramatist, poetHow You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova
Denys Chabot 1945novelist, historianL'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire
Sébastien Chabot 1976novelistNoir métal
Éric Chacour 1983novelistCe que je sais de toi
Perry Chafe 1969television writer, novelist Republic of Doyle , Closer by Sea
Robert Chafe 1971playwrightAfterimage, Tempting Providence
Soufiane Chakkouche 1977novelistZahra
Francis Chalifour 1977creative non-fiction After
Gillian Chan 1954children's literatureGlory Days and Other Stories
Robert Charbonneau 19111967novelistIls posséderont la terre, Fontile
David Chariandy 1969novelistSoucouyant, Brother
Lyne Charlebois screenwriter Borderline
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix 16821761historianHistoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France
Normand Chaurette 1954playwrightProvincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier
Évelyne de la Chenelière 1975playwright, novelistDésordre public, Bashir Lazhar
Herménégilde Chiasson 1946poet, playwrightConversations
Philip Child 18981978novelistDay of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time
Anne Chislett 1942playwrightQuiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box
Ann Y. K. Choi author Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
Ins Choi 1974playwright Kim's Convenience
Gabriel Cholette memoiristCarnets de l'underground
Corinna Chong novelist, short storiesBad Land
Denise Chong 1953memoirist The Concubine's Children
Kevin Chong 1975novelist, memoiristMy Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity
Wayson Choy 19392019novelist, memoirist The Jade Peony , All That Matters , Paper Shadows
Lesley Choyce 1951poet, novelist, non-fictionThe Republic of Nothing
Michael Christie short storiesThe Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die
Jane Christmas 1954travel, memoiristAnd Then There Were Nuns
S. D. Chrostowska novelist, non-fiction, aphoristPermission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book
Eliza Clark 1963novelistBite the Stars
Greg Clark 18921977humoristWar Stories
Joan Clark 19342023novelistLatitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires
Austin Clarke 19342016novelist The Polished Hoe , Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
George Elliott Clarke 1960poet, novelist, dramatist Whylah Falls , George and Rue , Black
Stéfanie Clermont 1988novelistLe jeu de la musique
David Clerson 1978novelistFrères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête
Mabel Clint 18741939novelist, nurseOur Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister
Fabien Cloutier 1976dramatistPour réussir un poulet
Lynn Coady 1970novelist Saints of Big Harbour , Strange Heaven, Hellgoing
Mark Coakley true crime Tip and Trade
Devon Code novelist, short storiesIn a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts
Lisa Codrington playwrightCast Iron, Up the Garden Path
Fred Cogswell 19172004poet
Leonard Cohen 19342016poet, novelist, singer-songwriter Beautiful Losers
Matt Cohen 19421999novelist Emotional Arithmetic , Elizabeth and After
Susan G. Cole 1952journalistPornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography
Trevor Cole 1960novelistThe Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean
Anne Coleman creative non-fiction I'll Tell You a Secret
Layne Coleman playwright Blue City Slammers
Victor Coleman 1944poet
Don Coles 19272017poetForests of the Medieval World
Ruth Collie 18881936poetKnown as the Poem a Day Lady
John Robert Colombo 1936poet, reference book compilerColombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References
Daria Colonna 1989poetNe faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse
Wayde Compton 1972poet, essays, short fiction
Bill Conall novelist, humoristThe Promised Land
Christy Ann Conlin novelist, short storiesHeave, The Memento, Watermark
Jan Conn 1952poet, insect geneticistSouth of the Tudo Bem Cafe
Karen Connelly 1969travel, novelist, poetTouch the Dragon,The Lizard Cage
Kevin Connolly 1962poet, editorDrift, Revolver
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon)18601937novelist, essayistThe Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot
Darla Contois playwrightThe War Being Waged
George Ramsay Cook 19312016historian
Hugh Cook 1942novelist
Michael Cook 19331994playwrightJacob's Wake
Tim Cook 1971military historianShock 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 1944poetIrene
Beverley Cooper playwrightThin Ice, Innocence Lost
Douglas Cooper 1960novelist Amnesia , Delirium
Paige Cooper short storiesZolitude
Ann Copeland 1932short storiesThe Golden Thread
Judith Copithorne 1939poet
Carole Corbeil 19522000novelist, journalistVoice-Over, In the Wings
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman 1985playwrightScratch
Amanda Cordner playwrightBody So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses
David Cormican 1981screenwriter, producerNorthern Rescue, Réveillon
Michael Cormican 19482023author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurseA Long Way From Tipperary
Thomas B. Costain 18851965historical fiction, non-fictionBelow the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose , The Silver Chalice
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave 18901971non-fictionAfterthoughts of Armageddon
Douglas Coupland 1961novelist Generation X , Girlfriend in a Coma
Kevin Courrier 19542018biographer, music and film criticRandy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream
Maya Cousineau Mollen 1975poetBréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen
Saros Cowasjee 19312019novelistGoodbye to Elsa
Hugh Cowan 18671943historianOntario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814
James Alexander Cowan 19011978writer, columnist
Daniel Allen Cox 1976novelistShuck, Tattoo This Madness In
Ivan Coyote 1969spoken-word poet, columnistBow Grip
Archie Crail 1944playwright, short storiesExile, The Bonus Deal
Isabella Valancy Crawford 18461887poet, freelanceOld Spookses' Pass
Donald Creighton 19021979historianJohn A. Macdonald
Luella Creighton 19011996historical fiction, children's non-fictionHigh Bright Buggy Wheels
Octave Crémazie 18271879poet
Eva Crocker short storiesBarrelling Forward
Lynn Crosbie 1963poet, novelistLife Is About Losing Everything
Caleigh Crow playwrightThere Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Lorna Crozier 1948poetInventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light
Michael Crummey 1965poet, novelist, non-fiction Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents
Nancy Jo Cullen poet, short storiesScience Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary
Alan Cumyn 1960novelistThe Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia
Peter Cureton 19651994playwrightPassages
Andrea Curtis creative non-fiction Into the Blue
Herb Curtis 1949novelist, humoristThe Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Kayla Czaga 1989poetFor Your Safety Please Hold On

D

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Antonio D'Alfonso 1953poet, novelist, bilingual writerThe Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout
Michel Dallaire 19572017novelist, poetVioloncelle pour une lune d’automne
Roméo Dallaire 1946documentarian, memoirist, activist Shake Hands with the Devil , They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
Anne Dandurand 1953novelist
Louis Dantin 18651945poet, criticLe Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques
Jean-Paul Daoust 1946poet, novelist, short storiesLes Cendres bleues, Black Diva
Peter Darbyshire novelistPlease
Jill Daum playwrightForget About Tomorrow
Frank Davey 1940poet
Craig Davidson 1976novelist, short stories Rust and Bone , Cataract City
True Davidson 19011978poet, fiction, non-fictionThe Golden Strings
Blodwen Davies 18971966historianA Study of Tom Thomson
Lynn Davies 1954poetThe Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools
Robertson Davies 19131995novelist Fifth Business , What's Bred in the Bone
Lauren B. Davis 1955novelist, short storiesOur Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market
Amber Dawn novelist, anthologistSub Rosa
Caroline Dawson 19792024novelist, poet, children's literatureLà où je me terre
Nicholas Dawson 1982novelist, poet, non-fictionDésormais, ma demeure
Frank Parker Day 18811950novelist Rockbound , John Paul's Rock
Claire Dé 1953novelist, short storiesBonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel
Alfred Duclos DeCelles 18431925journalist, librarianThe 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion
Mazo de la Roche 18791961novelist Jalna
Charles de Lint 1951fantasy
Elisabeth de Mariaffi short stories, poetHow to Get Along With Women
Sadiqa de Meijer 1977short stories, poetLeaving Howe Island
James de Mille 18331880novelist A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau 19121943poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short storiesRegards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929–1939
Marq de Villiers 1940journalist, magazine editor, scienceWater: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Anthony de Sa novelist, short storiesBarnacle Love
Patrick deWitt 1975novelistThe Sisters Brothers
Michael Delisle 1959novelist, poet, short storiesLe sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père
Martine Delvaux 1968novelist, non-fictionBlanc dehors
David Demchuk playwright, novelistThe Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise
Sandra Dempsey 1956
Barry Dempster 1952
Dennis Denisoff novelist, poet, academicDog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
Randall Denley journalist, novelistThe Perfect Candidate
Adebe DeRango-Adem poetTerra Incognita, Vox Humana
Martine Desjardins 1957novelistLe Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium
Roxane Desjardins 1991writer, editorCiseaux
Léo-Paul Desrosiers 18961967journalist, novelistLes Engagés du Grand Portage
Henriette Dessaulles 18601946journalist, diaristFadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881
William Deverell 1937mysteries, screenwriterTrial of Passion, April Fool
Alexander Dewdney 1941computer science, philosophy
Christopher Dewdney 1951
Selwyn Hanington Dewdney 19091979novelist, illustrator, non-fiction authorWind Without Rain
Myrna Dey novelist, journalistExtensions
Ranj Dhaliwal 1976novelist Daaku , The Gangster's Life
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco 19492019poetThe Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise
David Di Giovanni playwrightBody So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses
Mary di Michele 1949poet, novelistStranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love
Ann Diamond 1951poet, novelist, short storiesA Nun's Diary, Evil Eye
Don Dickinson 1947novelist, short storiesBlue Husbands, The Crew
Nicolas Dickner 1972novelist, short stories Nikolski
Cherie Dimaline 1975novelist, short storiesThe Marrow Thieves
Christopher DiRaddo 1974novelistThe Geography of Pluto, The Family Way
Dorothy Dittrich playwrightThe Dissociates, The Piano Teacher
Sean Dixon playwright1492, A God in Need of Help
Sandra Djwa 1939biography, literary criticismJourney with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
Kildare Dobbs 19232013short stories
Farzana Doctor novelistStealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement
Cory Doctorow 1971science fictionDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother
Jeramy Dodds 1974poetCrabwise to the Hounds
M. T. Dohaney 1930novelist, short storiesThe Corrigan Women
Bob Dolman 1949screenwriter SCTV
Don Domanski 19502020
Fernand Dorais 19282003academic literature, eroticaEntre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes
Candas Jane Dorsey 1952science fictionBlack Wine, A Paradigm of Earth
Clive Doucet 1946
Lily Dougall 18581923authorA Question of Faith
Arthur Doughty 18601936historianCanada and its Provinces, (23 vols)
Orville Lloyd Douglas 1976poet
James Doull 19182001philosopher
Philippa Dowding children's literatureOculum, Firefly
Glen Downey 1969children's literature
Brian Doyle 1935young adult fiction
Brian Drader 1960playwrightProk, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals
Stan Dragland 19422022fiction, poet, literary criticism, essaysFloating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys
Sylvie Drapeau 1962novelistLe Fleuve, La Terre
Don Druick 1945playwrightWhere Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes
William Henry Drummond 18541907poetThe Habitant
Klara du Plessis poetEkke
Marcel Dubé 19302016
Peter Dubé novelist, short storiesHovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky
Réjean Ducharme 19412017
Louis Dudek 19182001poet
Margaret Duley 18941968novelistThe Eyes of the Gull
Dawn Dumont novelist, short storiesNobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run
Dave Duncan 19332018
Sandy Frances Duncan 1942novels, short fiction, mysteries Cariboo Runaway , Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island
Sara Jeannette Duncan 18611922novelist, journalistThe Imperialist
Warren Dunford 1963novelistSoon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer
Nina Dunic short stories, novelistThe Clarion
Norma Dunning short storiesAnnie Muktuk and Other Stories
Kristyn Dunnion 1969novelist, short storiesBig Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles
Éric Dupont 1970novelistLa Logeuse, La fiancée américaine
Douglas Durkin 18841967novelist, screenwriterThe Magpie

E

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Lawrence Earl 19152005novelist, journalistYangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass
Edith Maude Eaton 18651914short stories Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Evelyn Eaton 19021983novelist, poetQuietly My Captain Waits
Chris Eaton 1971novelist, musicThe Inactivist, The Grammar Architect
Winnifred Eaton 18751954novelistA Japanese Nightingale
James Eayrs 19262021historianIn Defence of Canada
Kim Echlin 1955novelistThe Disappeared
David Eddie novelist, humoristChump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control
Esi Edugyan 1978novelist The Second Life of Samuel Tyne , Half-Blood Blues , Washington Black
Caterina Edwards 1948novelist, playwright, short story writer The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife
Modris Eksteins 1943historianWalking 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 novelistButter Honey Pig Bread
Rima Elkouri novelist, journalistManam
George Elliott 19231996short storiesThe Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys
Deborah Ellis 1960non-fiction, young adult fiction The Breadwinner , The Heaven Shop
Sarah Ellis 1952children's literatureOdd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks
Louis Émond 1969novelistThe Manuscript
Marina Endicott 1958novelistGood to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference
Howard Engel 19312019mysteriesThe Suicide Murders
Marian Engel 19331985novelist Bear
Yves Engler 1979politics, activistPlaying Left Wing
Sharon English 1965short storiesZero Gravity
Karen Enns poetThat Other Beauty, Cloud Physics
Steven Erikson 1959novelistMalazan Book of the Fallen series
Ann Eriksson 1956novelistIn the Hands of Anubis
Thom Ernst film critic, memoiristThe Wild Boy of Waubamik
Gloria Escomel 1941novelist, dramatist, journalistPièges, Fruit de la passion
Robin Esrock 1974travel writerThe Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List
Michael Estok 19391989poetA Plague Year Journal
Hubert Evans 18921986novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literatureMist on the River
Jon Evans 1973novelistDark Places
Stanley Evans 1931novelistSeaweed series of crime fiction

F

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Emil Fackenheim 19162003historian, philosopher
Jean Mohsen Fahmy 1942novelist, short stories, literary criticismL'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée
Terry Fallis 1959humoristThe Best Laid Plans
Alain Farah 1979novelist, poetMatamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne
Abla Farhoud 19452021novelist, playwrightLe bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince
Edmundo Farolan 19432023poet, playwright, novelistItinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer
Brian Fawcett 19442022novelist, non-fictionVirtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
Charles Fenerty 18211892poet, journalist, inventorBetula Nigra, Essay on Progress
Linda Rui Feng novelistSwimming Back to Trout River
Ian Ferguson playwright, humoristVillage of the Small Houses
Max Ferguson 19242013humoristAnd Now... Here's Max
Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow1947novelist, playwright
Will Ferguson 1964humorist, novelist, travel writerWhy I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419
Raoul Fernandes poetTransmitter and Receiver
Paola Ferrante poet, short storiesWhat to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals
Jacques Ferron 19211985playwright
Madeleine Ferron 19222010novelistLa fin des loups-garous
George Fetherling 1949
Charlotte Fielden 19322021
Joy Fielding 1945novelist
Connie Fife 19612017poetBeneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World
Timothy Findley 19302002novelist, dramatist, short stories The Wars , The Piano Man's Daughter
Lois Fine playwrightFreda and Jem's Best of the Week
Larry Fineberg 1945playwrightEve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve
Joe Fiorito 1948novelist, columnist, memoiristThe Song Beneath the Ice
Sheree Fitch 1956poet, novelist, children's fictionMabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies
James FitzGerald non-fictionOld Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
Judith Fitzgerald 19522015
Polly Fleck 19332019poetThe Chinese Execution
Anne Fleming 1964
May Agnes Fleming 18401880novelistThe Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman
Cynthia Flood 1940novelist, short storiesMy Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy
Lisa Foad short stories, journalistThe Night Is a Mouth
Waawaate Fobister playwrightAgokwe
Jacques Folch-Ribas 1928novelistUne aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur
Naomi Fontaine 1987novelistKuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni
Dennis Foon 1951
Charles Foran 1960novelistButterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire
John-James Ford 1972
Paul Serge Forest novelistTout est ori
André Forget novelistIn the City of Pigs
Helen Forrester 19192011novelist
Dominique Fortier 1972novelistDu bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer
Carley Fortune 1985novelistEvery Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake
Cecil Foster 1954
Marion Foster 19241997mysteriesThe Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender
Martin Fournier 1954historian, young adult literatureThe Adventures of Radisson
Roger Fournier 19292012novelist, screenwriterLe cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi
Barbara Fradkin
Tess Fragoulis
Brian Francis 1971novelistFruit
Brad Fraser 1959playwright Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
John Anderson Fraser 18661960
Keath Fraser 1944
Raymond Fraser 19412018Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life
Sylvia Fraser 1935novelist
Louis Fréchette 18391908poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Pauline Fréchette 18891943poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
David French 19392010playwright
Maida Parlow French novelist, artist, biographer
Kathy Friedman short storiesAll the Shining People
Patrick Friesen 1946
Mark Frutkin 1948
Northrop Frye 19121991critic Anatomy of Criticism
Kim Fu 1987novelist For Today I Am a Boy
Robert Fulford 1932journalist
Janine Fuller 1958non-fictionRestricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pik-Shuen Fung novelistGhost Forest
Wes Funk 19692015novelistDead Rock Stars, Baggage
Nicola Furlong

G

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Brendan Gall 1978playwright, screenwriterWide Awake Hearts
Mavis Gallant 19222014short storiesFrom the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks
Steven Galloway 1975novelistThe Cellist of Sarajevo
François-Xavier Garneau 18091866historianHistory of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau 19121943poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short storiesRegards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939
Hugh Garner 19131979novelistCabbagetown
Alfred Garrioch 18481934novelistFirst Furrows
Elyse Gasco 1967short storiesCan You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Bill Gaston 1953novelist, short storiesThe Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite
C. E. Gatchalian 1974playwrightMotifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time
Connie Gault 1949playwright, novelist, short storiesSky, Euphoria, A Beauty
Daniel Gawthrop 1963journalist, biographerAffirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter
Pauline Gedge 1945novelistStargate, House of Illusions
John Geiger non-fiction authorThe Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition
Karoline Georges 1970novelist, poetDe synthèse
Shree Ghatage 1957novelist, short story writerAwake When All the World Is Asleep
Camilla Gibb 1968novelistSweetness in the Belly
John Murray Gibbon 18751952non-fiction, novelistCanadian Mosaic
Chantal Gibson poetHow She Read
Douglas Gibson 1943editor, publisher, memoiristStories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others
Graeme Gibson 19342019novelistFive Legs, Perpetual Motion
Margaret Gibson 19482006novelist, short storiesThe Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams
William Gibson 1948science fiction Neuromancer , All Tomorrow's Parties
Sky Gilbert 1952playwrightBrother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space
Charlotte Gill short stories, non-fictionLadykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
John Patrick Gillese 19261999novelist, short storiesKirby's Gander
Curtis Gillespie 1960short stories, non-fiction, novelsThe Progress of an Object in Motion, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast
David Gilmour 1949novelist A Perfect Night to Go to China
M-E Girard young adult literatureGirl Mans Up
Malcolm Gladwell 1963journalist, sociologist The Tipping Point , Outliers , Talking to Strangers
Joanna Glass 1936playwrightIf We Are Women, Trying
John Glassco 19091981poet, translator, memoiristMemoirs of Montparnasse
Paul Glennon short stories, young adult literatureThe Dodecahedron, Bookweird
Susan Glickman 1953poet, novelist, criticThe Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
Douglas Glover 1948novelistElle, The Life and Times of Captain N
Jacques Godbout 1933novelistSalut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine
Dave Godfrey 19382015novelistThe New Ancestors
Philip H. Godsell 18891961writerArctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
Glenda Goertzen 1967novelistThe Prairie Dogs
Nora Gold 1952writerFields 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 17941861poetThe Rising Village
Gabriella Goliger 1949novelist, short storiesSong of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped
Leona Gom 1946novelist, mysteries, poetHousebroken, Freeze Frame
Michelle Good novelist Five Little Indians
Alison Gordon 19432015sports journalist, mysteriesThe Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball
Charles Gordon 1940newspaper columnist, humorist, novelistThe Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip
Phyllis Gotlieb 19262009poet, science fictionA Judgement of Dragons
Sondra Gotlieb 1936newspaper columnistTrue Confections
Hiromi Goto 1966science fictionChorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child
John Gould short storiesKilter: 55 Fictions
Nora Gould poetI see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah
George R. D. Goulet 1933historianThe 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 1934historianThe 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 1948novelistAngel Walk, The Truth Teller
Lee Gowan 1961novelistMake Believe Love, The Last Cowboy
Barbara Gowdy 1950novelist, short storiesThe Romantic, The White Bone
Wayne Grady 1948novelist, memoir, scienceEmancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café
Gwethalyn Graham 19131965novelist Earth and High Heaven
Neile Graham 1958poetSpells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory
Martin Allerdale Grainger 18741941novelist, journalistWoodsmen of the West
Jack Granatstein 1939historian
Linda Granfield 1950children's literatureIn Flanders Fields
E. M. Granger Bennett 1988historical fictionShort of the Glory
George Grant 19181988historian, philosopherLament for a Nation
Hilda Kay Grant 19101996writer, artistThe Salt Box
Jessica Grant 1972novelist, short storiesCome, Thou Tortoise
Élise Gravel 1977children's literature, graphic novelsLe Grand Antonio, La clé à molette
François Gravel 1951novelistOstende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker
Charlotte Gray 1948novelist, non-fiction Mrs. King
R. W. Gray short storiesCrisp, Entropic
Ethel Grayson 18901980novelist, poet
Lowell Green 1936history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalismAmazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada!
Nick Green playwrightBody Politic
Robert Joseph Greene 1973children's literature, romantic fictionThis High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World
Ed Greenwood 1959fantasy Forgotten Realms
Darren Greer 1968novelist Still Life with June , Just Beneath My Skin
James Gregor novelistGoing Dutch
Doris Gregory autobiographerHow I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
Daniel Grenier 1980novelist, short storiesL’année la plus longue
Taras Grescoe creative non-fiction Sacré Blues
Grey Owl 18881938conservationistGrey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients
Francis William Grey 18601939novelist, poet, non-fictionThe Curé of St. Philippe
Claude-Henri Grignon 18941976novelist, satiristUn Homme et son péché
G. A. Grisenthwaite novelist, short stories, poetHome Waltz
Lionel Groulx 18781967historian The Call of the Race
Frederick Phillip Grove 18791948novelistSettlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways
Brett Josef Grubisic 1963novelist, criticThe Age of Cities
Katia Grubisic 1978poet, short storieswhat if red ran out
Agnès Gruda journalist, short story writerOnze petites trahisons
Christian Guay-Poliquin 1982novelistLe fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige
Germaine Guèvremont 18931968novelist, short storiesLe Survenant, Marie-Didace
Genni Gunn 1949novelist, poetTracing Iris, Faceless
Kristjana Gunnars 1948poet, novelistSettlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps
Stephen Guppy 1951poet, novelist, short storiesUnderstanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy
David Gurr 1936novelist, playwrightThe Ring Master
Ralph Gustafson 19091995poetFire on Stone
Don Gutteridge 1937poet, novelist
Guy Lawson 1963journalist War Dogs
Sandra Gwyn 19352000journalistThe Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

H

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Samra Habib photographer, memoiristWe Have Always Been Here
Chris Hadfield 1959scientist, memoirist, essayist, musicianAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
Rawi Hage 1964novelist De Niro's Game , Cockroach, Carnival
Joan Haggerty 1940
Medina Hahn playwrightInheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Roderick Haig-Brown 19081976
Ken Haigh 1962memoiristUnder the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury
Arthur Hailey 19202004novelistHotel, Airport
Thomas Chandler Haliburton 17961865The Clockmaker
Phil Hall 1953poetKilldeer
Louis Hamelin 1959novelist, short stories, literary criticLa Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx
Ian Hamilton 1946journalist, mysteriesThe Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Jane Eaton Hamilton 1954Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger
Lyn Hancock 1938There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon
Angeline Hango 19091995novelist, journalistTruthfully Yours
Catherine Hanrahan novelistLost Girls and Love Hotels
Kevin Hardcastle 1980novelist, short storiesDebris
Robin Hardy 19521995novelist, journalistCall of the Wendigo, Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood
Robyn Harding 1969novelistThe Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party
Robert Harlow 1923novelistScann
Liz Harmer novelistThe Amateurs
Jennica Harper poet, television writerWood, Bounce House, Jann
Alexander Harris 18051874novelistSettlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods
Claire Harris 19372018
Dorothy Joan Harris 1931children's literature
Marjorie Harris 1937gardeningSeasons of My Garden
Michael Harris 1944poetCircus
Michael Harris 1948journalistJustice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall
Michael Harris 1980non-fiction, young adult literatureThe End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Keith Harrison 19452019novelistEyemouth, Furry Creek
Jill Hartman 1974
Diana Hartog 1942poet, novelistMatinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts
Kristen den Hartog 1965
Kenneth J. Harvey 1962novelistDirections for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco
Kim Senklip Harvey playwrightKamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
Elisabeth Harvor 1936novelist, poetLet Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Erum Shazia Hasan novelistWe Meant Well
Liedewy Hawke translator
Barbara Haworth-Attard 1953
Elizabeth Hay 1951novelist, non-fiction Late Nights on Air , A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana
Elliott Hayes 19561994
Matthew Hays film critic, journalist The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
Steven Hayward novelist, short storiesBuddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke
Charles Heavysege 18161876poetSaul
Anne Hébert 19162000novelist, poet, short stories, novellasKamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent
Maurice Hébert 18881960novelist, poetLe Cycle de Don Juan
Steven Heighton 19612022novelist, poetThe Shadow Boxer
Sydney Hegele short storiesThe Pump
William C. Heine 19191991novelist, newspaper editor The Last Canadian
Matthew Heiti novelist, screenwriter, playwright Son of the Sunshine , The City Still Breathing
Tyler Hellard novelistSearching for Terry Punchout
Michael Helm 1961novelist, editorThe Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things
David Helwig 19382018novelist, poetFigures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter
Maggie Helwig 1961
Louis Hémon 18801913novelist, journalist Maria Chapdelaine
Lee Henderson novelist, short stories The Broken Record Technique , The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts
Maurice Henrie 1936novelist, short stories, non-fictionLe Balcon dans le ciel
Sarah Henstra novelistMad Miss Mimic, The Red Word
John Herbert 19262001playwright Fortune and Men's Eyes
Sarah Herbert 18241846publisher, writer, poetThe Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems
Catherine Hernandez playwright, novelist Scarborough
Nicholas Herring novelistSome Hellish
Trevor Herriot naturalistRiver in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Benjamin Hertwig poetSlow War
Sheila Heti 1976novelist, short storiesHow Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor
Paul Hiebert 18921987novelist, humorist Sarah Binks
Tomson Highway 1951playwright, novelist Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing , The Rez Sisters , Kiss of the Fur Queen
Lawrence Hill 1957novelist, memoiristBlack Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes
Ernest Hillen journalist, memoiristThe Way of a Boy, Small Mercies
Robert Hilles 1951poet and novelistCantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild
Jack Hodgins 1938
Robert Hogg 1942poet, criticThe Connexions
Nadia L. Hohn children's literatureMalaika's Costume
Susan Holbrook poetMisled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes
Arthur Holden 1959playwright, televisionFather Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob
Clive Holden poet Trains of Winnipeg
Claire Holden Rothman 1958novelist, short storiesThe Heart Specialist, My October
Pauline Holdstock
Norah M. Holland 18761925poet, playwright, journalist, editorSpun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems
Greg Hollingshead 1947novelist, short storiesThe Roaring Girl, The Healer
Margaret Hollingsworth 1942playwrightEver Loving, War Babies, Islands
Michael Hollingsworth 1950playwrightThe History of the Village of the Small Huts
Nancy Holmes 1959poetThe Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree
Margaret Lindsay Holton
(a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte)
1955novelist, short stories, poet, social historyEconomic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs
David Homel 1952novelist, translatorElectrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown
Hugh Hood 19282000novelistThe New Age
Cornelia Hoogland 1952
Hilda Mary Hooke 18981978poet, dramatist
Emma Hooper 1980novelistEtta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs
Nalo Hopkinson 1960science fiction, fantasy Midnight Robber , The Salt Roads
Leah Horlick poetRiot Lung, For Your Own Good
Harold Horwood 19232006
Karen Houle poetThe Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology
Liz Howard poetInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
Stevie Howell poetSharps, I left nothing inside on purpose
Nazanine Hozar 1978novelistAria
David Huebert short stories, poetryPeninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley
Annie Campbell Huestis 18781960short stories, poetryFlannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp
Tanya Huff 1957fantasy
Matt Hughes 1949
Helen Humphreys 1961novelistAfterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus
Aislinn Hunter
Bruce Hunter 1952poet, novelist, non-fictionComing 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 19122001humoristGophers Don't Pay Taxes
Nancy Huston 1953novelist, translator
Linda Hutcheon 1947critic, academicThe Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation.
Hazel Hutchins
Chris Hutchinson 1972poet, novelist, academicOther People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames
Bruce Hutchison 19011992
Céline Huyghebaert novelistLe drap blanc
Joel Thomas Hynes 1976novelist, playwright, screenwriter Down to the Dirt , Right Away Monday
Maureen Hynes poetRough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow

I

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Ameer Idreis 1999novelistThe Ewald Series
Michael Ignatieff 1947novelist, academicScar Tissue, Blood and Belonging
George K. Ilsley 1958novelist, short storiesRandom Acts of Hatred, ManBug
Neamat Imam 1971novelist The Black Coat
Susan Ioannou 1944poetClarity Between Clouds
Anosh Irani 1974novelist The Song of Kahunsha
Ann Ireland 19532018novelistExile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Dionne Irving novelist, short storiesQuint, The Islands
Brian Thomas Isaac 1950novelistAll the Quiet Places
Adel Iskandar 1977media criticAl-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism
Doyali Islam poetYusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft
Frances Itani 1942novelistDeafening

J

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works Dragons of Nesbit
Donald Jack 19242003novelist, playwrightThe Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses
Suzanne Jacob 1953novelist, poetLaura Laur, La Part de feu
Heidi L. M. Jacobs novelistMolly of the Mall
Michael Jacot 19242006novelist, screenwriter The Last Act of Martin Weston , The Last Butterfly
Simone St. James novelistThe Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls
Anna Brownell Jameson 17941860Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
J. Robert Janes 1932mysteries
Mark Anthony Jarman 1955novelist, short stories19 Knives, My White Planet
Melynda Jarratt 1961non-fiction, historian literatureVoices 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 19302021novelist, screenwriter, short storiesÉthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal
Michel Jean novelist, journalistKukum, Atuk
François Jeanneret 18901967historian
E. A. Jenns 18601930poetEvening to Morning, and Other Poems
Paulette Jiles 1943novelist, poetCelestial Navigation, Enemy Women
Gilles Jobidon 1950novelistLa Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé
Marthe Jocelyn 1956children's/young adult literatureAggie Morton, Mystery Queen series
K. V. Johansen 1968fantasy, science fictionNightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus
Jessica Johns novelist, short storiesBad Cree
Linda Johns 1945non-fiction Sharing a Robin's Life
E. Pauline Johnson 18611913poetCanadian Born
Wentworth M. Johnson 19392014science fiction, mysteries, non-fictionAngel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series
Aviaq Johnston 1992/1993children's/young adult literatureThose Who Run in the Sky
Julie Johnston children's/young adult literature Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Wayne Johnston 1958novelist, non-fiction The Colony of Unrequited Dreams , Baltimore's Mansion
Sean Johnston 1966novelist, short stories, poetA Day Does Not Go By
Andy Jones 1948playwright, screenwriter The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Alice Jones 18531933novelist, essayistGabriel Praed's Castle
D. G. Jones 19292016poet, translatorUnder the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth
Scott Jones playwright, screenwriterCoin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You
Terry Jordan short storiesIt's a Hard Cow
Eve Joseph 1953poetThe Startled Heart, Quarrels

K

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Michael Kaan fictionThe Water Beetles
Elaine Kalman Naves 1947non-fictionPutting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story
Surjeet Kalsey poet, drama, short stories, translatorFootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart
Smaro Kamboureli
Alan Kane 1954 Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
Donna Kane poetOrrery
Adeena Karasick 1965poetThis Poem
Ibi Kaslik 1973novelist Skinny , The Angel Riots
Welwyn Wilton Katz 1948
Aristote Kavungu 1962fiction, poetryUn train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi
Guy Gavriel Kay 1954fantasy The Fionavar Tapestry , Tigana , A Song for Arbonne , The Lions of Al-Rassan
Greg Kearney short stories, dramaMommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun
Lionel Kearns 1937fiction, essays, digital-word-artBirth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences
Diane Keating poetNo Birds or Flowers
Julie Keith short storiesThe Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There
Thomas P. Kelley 19101982pulp, true crimeThe Black Donnellys
Kaie Kellough 1975poet, novelist, short storiesMagnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads
Cathal Kelly sportswriter, memoiristBoy Wonders
M. T. Kelly 1946novelistA Dream Like Mine
Sean Kelly 1940humorSaints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon
Olivier Kemeid 1975playwrightL'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés
Oonya Kempadoo novelistNaniki
Howard Angus Kennedy 18611938Historian, journalistThe Northwest Rebellion
Michael Kenyon novelist, short stories, poetThe Beautiful Children, Kleinberg
Conor Kerr 1988novelist, poetAvenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers
Susan Kerslake 1943novelist, short storiesMiddlewatch, The Book of Fears
Joseph Kertes 1951novelist, journalistWinter Tulips, Gratitude
Craig Kielburger 1982Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneurFree the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From A Street Kid
Marc Kielburger 1977Canadian human rights activist, author, social entrepreneurMe To We: Finding Meaning In A Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter
William Kilbourn 19261995historianThe Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion
Crawford Kilian 1941The Last Vikings
Crad Kilodney 19482014short storiesBlood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda
Deborah Kimmett playwright, humoristMiracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy
Basil King 18591928novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors AssociationThe Inner Shrine (1909)
Thomas King 1943novelist, non-fictionGreen Grass, Running Water
Wesley King 1987novelist, fictionOCDaniel, The Wizenard Series
Mark Kingwell 1963philosopherDreams of Millennium
W.P. Kinsella 19352016novelist, short storiesShoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside
William Kirby 18171906novelist, poetThe Golden Dog
Barbara Klar 1966poetThe Night You Called Me a Shadow
Sarah Klassen 1932novelist, poetJourney to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs
A. M. Klein 19091972novelist, poet The Second Scroll
Joshua Knelman creative non-fiction Hot Art
Chelene Knight poet, creative non-fictionDear Current Occupant
Raymond Knister 18991932Grapes (2006)
Alexander Knox 19071995actor, novelistNight Of The White Bear
Tamai Kobayashi 1965short stories, novelistPrairie Ostrich
Eric Koch 19192018novelistPremonitions: A novel
Joy Kogawa 1935poet, novelistObasan, Itsuka
Miodrag Kojadinović 1961short story writer, poetÉrotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies
Sergio Kokis 1944novelist, poet, short storiesLe Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac
Pamela Korgemagi novelistThe Hunter and the Old Woman
Gordon Korman 1963children's, young adult literature This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall
Myrna Kostash 1944Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe
Shane Koyczan 1976Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media)
Greg Kramer 19612013novelist, playwrightThe Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally
Philip Kreiner 1950novelist, short storiesPeople Like Us in a Place Like This
Henry Kreisel 19221991novelistThe Rich Man
Aaron Kreuter poet, short storiesYou and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome
John Krizanc 1956playwright Tamara
Robert Kroetsch 19272011novelist, poetThe Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K
Daniel Krolik 1977playwrightGay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer 1965novelist, short storiesWay Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things
Janice Kulyk Keefer 1952novelist, poetConstellations, The Green Library
J. D. Kurtness fictionDe vengeance
Michael Kusugak 1948children's literatureThe Littlest Sled Dog
Lydia Kwa 1959fiction, poetThis Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy

L

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Sonnet L'Abbé poetA Strange Relief, Killarnoe
Carole Labarre 1966novelistL'Or des mélèzes
Richard Labonté 1949critic, anthologistFirst Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series
Rosa Labordé playwrightLéo
Marie-Sissi Labrèche 1969screenwriter, novelist Borderline
Marie-Ève Lacasse 1982novelistAutobiographie de l'étranger
Edward A. Lacey 19881995poetThe Forms of Life
Ben Ladouceur 1987poetOtter
Chloé LaDuchesse poetExosquelette
Steven Laffoley 1965non-fiction, novelistShadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo
Marie-Pier Lafontaine novelistChienne
Larissa Lai 1967novelistWhen Fox Is a Thousand
Angélique Lalonde short storiesGlorious Frazzled Beings
Kama La Mackerel poetZOM-FAM
Vincent Lam 1974medicine, novelist Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures , The Headmaster's Wager
Tsering Yangzom Lama novelistWe Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Guillaume Lambert 1984novelist, screenwriterSatyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara
Kevin Lambert 1992novelistTu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval
Gerald Lampert 1920s1978novelist, poetTangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus
Tim Lander 1938poetStreet Heart Poems
Patrick Lane 19392019poetPoems, New and Selected
André Langevin 19272009novelist, playwright, journalistÉvadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc
Marisa Lankester 1963writerDangerous Odds
Shari Lapena 1960novelistHappiness Economics, The Couple Next Door
Annette Lapointe 1978novelistStolen
Gilbert La Rocque 19431984novelist, biographerLes masques
Hubert LaRue 18331881writer, physician, scientistVoyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean
Stéphane Larue 1983novelistLe Plongeur
Evelyn Lau 1971poet, novelist, memoiristRunaway: Diary of a Street Kid
Margaret Laurence 19261987novelist The Stone Angel , The Diviners
Agnes C. Laut 18711936journalist, novelist, historian, social workerPioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier
Marie-Renée Lavoie 1974novelistLa petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate
Karen Lawrence 1951novelist, poet, short storiesThe Life of Helen Alone
R.D. Lawrence 19212003naturalist, nature writerCry Wild
Mary Lawson 1946novelist Crow Lake
Irving Layton 19122006poetA Wild Peculiar Joy
Jack Layton 19502011non-fictionHomelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
Stephen Leacock 18691944humorist Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Georgette LeBlanc 1977poet, translatorAlma, Prudent
Gérald Leblanc 19452005poetComplaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra
Perrine Leblanc 1980novelistL'homme blanc, Malabourg
D. M. LeBourdais 18871964journalist, historianNation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution
Isabel LeBourdais 19092003journalist The Trial of Steven Truscott
Félix Leclerc 19141988writer, poet, singer-songwriterPieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers
Dennis Lee 1939poetGarbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies
John Alan Lee 19332013sociologistThe Colours of Love, Getting Sex
JJ Lee non-fictionThe Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Jen Sookfong Lee novelistThe End of East
John B. Lee 1951poetThe Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb
Nancy Lee 1970short storiesDead Girls
Ronald Lee 19342020novelistGoddam Gypsy
Sky Lee 1952short stories, novelistDisappearing Moon Cafe
Mathyas Lefebure novelistD'où viens tu, berger?
Lily Alice Lefevre 18541938poetThe Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By The Sea
Mark Leiren-Young 1962playwright, novelist Shylock (play) , The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen
Roger Lemelin 19191992novelist, essayistThe Town Below
Matt Lennox 1980novelist, short storiesMen of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead
John Lent 19482006poet, novelistSo it Won't Go Away
Don LePan 1954novelistAnimals: A Novel
Douglas LePan 19141998poet, novelistThe Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology"
Catherine Leroux 1979novelist, short storiesLe mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria
Pierre Leroux 1958novelistLe Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur
Alex Leslie poet, short storiesPeople Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You
Mark Leslie 1969novelist, non-fiction, short storiesHaunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York
Sophie Létourneau 1980novelistChasse à l'homme
Carrianne Leung novelist, short storiesThe Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You
J. R. (Roger) Léveillé 1945novelist, poet, non-fictionThe Setting Lake Sun
Yves Lever 19422020film critic, historian, biographerClaude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec
Lilian Leveridge 18791953poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles"Over the Hills of Home"
Norman Levine 19232005short storiesOne Way Ticket, Thin Ice
Shar Levine 1953children's scienceExtreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope
Naomi K. Lewis 1976novelist, non-fictionCricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers
Wyndham Lewis 18821957novelist The Apes of God
Katherine Leyton poetAll the Gold Hurts My Mouth
T. Liem poetObits
Hillar Liitoja playwrightThe Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville
Thea Lim 1981novelistAn Ocean of Minutes
Michael Lista 1983poetBloom
Ashley Little 1983children's, young adult literatureThe New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Jean Little 19322020novelistMine for Keeps
Dorothy Livesay 19091996poetDay and Night, Poems for People
Billie Livingston 1965novelist, short stories, poetGoing Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes
Douglas Lochhead 19222011poetHigh Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems
Lynette Loeppky memoiristCease
John Lorinc journalistDream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
Kevin Loring 1974playwrightWhere the Blood Mixes
Jennifer LoveGrove poet, novelistWatch How We Walk
Malcolm Lowry 19091957novelistUnder the Volcano
Pat Lowther 19351975poetMilk Stone, A Stone Diary
Canisia Lubrin poet, novelistThe Dyzgraphxst, Code Noir
Jack Ludwig 19222018novelist, short stories, sportswriterAbove Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration
Sidura Ludwig novelist, short storiesHolding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected
Pearl Luke 1958novelistBurning Ground, Madame Zee
Janet Lunn 19282017children's literature The Root Cellar , The Hollow Tree
Laura Lush 1959poet, short story writerHometown, Going to the Zoo
Richard Lush 1934poetA Manual for Lying Down
Michael Lynch 19441991poet, journalist, academicThese Waves of Dying Friends
Annabel Lyon 1971novels, short storiesThe Golden Mean
Eswyn Lyster 19232009war brides, warMost Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle

M

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Rozena Maart 1962novelist, short storiesRosa's District Six, The Writing Circle
Patrick MacAdam 19342015Gold Medal Misfits
Annick MacAskill poetShadow Blight
Ann-Marie MacDonald 1958novelist, playwright Fall on Your Knees , Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Bryden MacDonald 1960playwrightWhale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath
D. R. MacDonald 1939novelist, short storiesCape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald 18641922poet, children's literature, short stories, essays
Hugh MacDonald 1945This is a Love Song
Jake MacDonald 19492020The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country
Janice MacDonald 1959novelist, children's literature, short storiesCondemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out
Maggie MacDonald 1979
Wilson MacDonald 18801967poetSong of the Prairie Land
Lee MacDougall playwrightHigh Life
Gwendolyn MacEwen 19411987poet, novelistJulian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams
Mary Esther MacGregor 18721961novelist, non-fictionA Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley.
Roy MacGregor 1948journalist, non-fictionHome Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey
Agnes Maule Machar 18371927
Linden MacIntyre 1943novelist, journalist The Bishop's Man , Causeway
Matthew MacKenzie playwrightBears, The First Métis Man of Odesa
Rory Maclean 1954
Hugh MacLennan 19071990novelist, essayist Two Solitudes , Barometer Rising
Matt MacLennan
Michael MacLennan 1968
Alexander MacLeod 1972short storiesLight Lifting
Alison MacLeod fictionUnexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts
Alistair MacLeod 19362014novelist, short stories No Great Mischief
Elizabeth Macleod biographer
Joan MacLeod 1954playwrightAmigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl
Rick Maddocks 1970short storiesSputnik Diner
Adriana Maggs screenwriter Grown Up Movie Star
Randall Maggs poetNight Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Michèle Magny 1944playwrightMarina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel
Anand Mahadevan 1979novelistThe Strike
Rabindranath Maharaj 1955novelist, short storiesThe Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice
Louise Maheux-Forcier 19292015novelist, radio and television dramaAmadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé
Keith Maillard 1942novelist, poetTwin 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 1929novelist, playwright La Sagouine , Pélagie-la-Charrette
André Major 1942poet, novelistLes Rescapés
Kevin Major 1949
Pasha Malla short stories, journalismThe Withdrawal Method
Donato Mancini poetLigature, Æthel, Same Diff
Eli Mandel 19221992poetTrio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance
Miriam Mandel 19301982poetLions at Her Face, Station 14
Avner Mandelman novelist, financeThe Debba
David Manicom 1960poet, novelist
Lee Maracle 19502021poet, novelist
Blaine Marchand 1949poet, non-fiction, novelistA Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives
Jovette Marchessault 19382012novelist, playwrightLe Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien
Hubert Marcoux 19412009non-fiction, adventure travelAround the World in 18 Years
Michèle Marineau 1955novelist, translatorLa Route de Chlifa
Robert Marinier 1954playwright, televisionL'Insomnie, Météo+ , Les Bleus de Ramville
Daphne Marlatt 1942
Paul Marlowe novelist, short storiesSporeville
John Marlyn 19121985
Nicole Markotic 1962
Tom Marshall 19381993poet, novelist, critic Adele at the End of the Day
Yolanda T. Marshall 1978children's literatureMy Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans
Émile Martel 1941poet, short storiesPour orchestre et poète seul
Yann Martel 1963novelist, short stories Life of Pi , The High Mountains of Portugal
Camille Martin 1956poet, collage artistSonnets, Looms
Claire Martin 19142014La joue droite
Paul Nicholas Mason 1958novelist, playwrightBattered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave
Vincent Massey 18871967historianOn being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march
Elan Mastai screenwriter, novelist The F Word , All Our Wrong Todays
Carol Matas 1949novelistAfter the War, Daniel's Story
Shirlee Smith Matheson 1943
Suzette Mayr 1967novelistMonoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter
John Bentley Mays 19412016journalist, novelist, memoiristIn the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood
Susan Mayse 1948creative non-fictionAwen, Ginger , Merlin's Web
Julie Mazzieri 1975novelistLe discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco
Melchior Mbonimpa 1955novelist, non-fictionLes morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel
Tawiah M'carthy playwrightObaaberima
Colin McAdam novelistSome Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth
Steve McCaffery 1947
Julia McCarthy poetReturn from Erebus, All the Names Between
Nellie McClung 18731951journalist
Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac)poet, academicNail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers
Derek McCormack 1969novelist, short storiesDark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly
Eric McCormack 1938novelistThe Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Edward McCourt 19071972novelist, non-fictionMusic at the Close
John McCrae 18721918poet"In Flanders' Fields"
Kathleen McCracken 1960poetBlue Light, Bay and College
Derek McCulloch 1964graphic novelist, children's literature Stagger Lee
Thomas McCulloch 17761843humouristThe Stepsure Letters
Colin McDougall 19171984novelist Execution
Franklin D. McDowell 18881965novelistThe Champlain Road
Jaimie McEvoy1965historian
David McFadden 19402018poet, novelist, short storiesThe Art of Darkness, What's the Score?
Donna McFarlane 1958novelistDivision of Surgery
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon)19021977children's literature The Hardy Boys
Sheryl McFarlane 1954children's literature, young adult fictionWaiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog
Oonah McFee 19162006novels, short storiesSandbars
Peter McGehee 19551991novels, short storiesBoys Like Us, Sweetheart
Robin McGrath 1949novels, short stories, poetry, non-fictionEscaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt
Jean McIlwraith 18581938novelist, biographer
Edgar McInnis 18991973poet, historianThe Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War
James McIntyre 18271906poet
Ami McKay 1968The Birth House
Don McKay 1942poet, essayist
Leo McKay, Jr. 1964novelist, short stories Twenty-Six , Like This
Bruce Alistair McKelvie 18891960journalist, historianMagic, Murder and Mystery
Ian McLachlan novelist, playwrightThe Seventh Hexagram
Stuart McLean 19482017humorist, short storiesWelcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Marshall McLuhan 19111980academic
Susan McMaster 1950
Amber McMillan writerWe 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 19322013poet, playwrightOverlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me
Marie McPhedran 19041974novelistCargoes on the Great Lakes
Christopher Meades 1974novelist, short storiesThe Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary
John Melady
Lee Mellor 1982true crime, music criticCold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
Judith Merril 19231997science fiction, editor
Edmund Metatawabin 1948memoiristUp Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
John Metcalf 1938
Stéfani Meunier 1971novelist, short storiesUne carte postale de l'océan
Sarah Mian poet, novelist, short storiesWhen the Saints
Shayne Michael poetFif et sauvage
Anne Michaels 1958poet, novelist Fugitive Pieces
Sean Michaels 1982novelist, music critic Us Conductors
Andrée A. Michaud 1957novelist, playwrightLe ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée
Marianne Micros 1943short stories, poetEye
Jesse Edgar Middleton 18721960journalist, historian, songwriter Huron Carol , Toronto's 100 Years
Stevie Mikayne mystery novelist, children's literatureUnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts
Roy Miki 1942
Ron Miksha 1954Bad Beekeeping
Eleanor Millard 1942novelist, memoirist, short storiesRiver Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow
John Miller 1968novelistThe Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath
Orlo Miller 19111993historian, novelist
Kenneth G. Mills 19232004poet
Christine Miscione novelist, short storiesAuxiliary Skins, Carafola
Christian Mistral 1964novelist, poet, songwriterVamp
Rohinton Mistry 1952novelist Such a Long Journey , A Fine Balance
Jared Mitchell 1955
John Wendell Mitchell 18821951novelistThe Yellow Briar
W. O. Mitchell 19141998novelist, short storiesWho Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid
Rick Mofina 1959mystery, thrillerBlood of Others
Lucy Maud Montgomery 18741942novelist, children's literature Anne of Green Gables
Susanna Moodie 18031885memoiristRoughing it in the Bush
Brian Moore 19211999Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Christopher G. Moore 1952novelist, short stories Vincent Calvino Private Eye series
Lisa Moore 1964short stories, novelist
Jeffrey Moore novelistPrisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club
Shani Mootoo 1958novelist Cereus Blooms at Night
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon poet
Pierre Morency 1942poet, playwright
Bernice Morgan 1935
Dwayne Morgan 1974
Grace Jones Morgan 18841977pulp
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, memoiristAs I Remember It
Guillaume Morissette 1983novelist
Kim Moritsugu novelsLooks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure
Donna Morrissey 1956
Kim Morrissey
Garry Thomas Morse poet, novelistDiscovery Passages, Prairie Harbour
Colin Morton 1948
Marie Moser 1948novelist, short storiesCounterpoint
Daniel David Moses 19522020poet and playwright
Tara Moss 1973novelistFetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess
Erín Moure 1955poet
Farley Mowat 19212014novelist, naturalistNever Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
Claire Mulligan novelist, short storiesThe Reckoning of Boston Jim
Alice Munro 19312024short stories The Progress of Love , Lives of Girls and Women , The Love of a Good Woman
Jim Munroe 1945science fictionFlyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico
Robert Munsch 1945children's literatureAngela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess
Janet Munsil playwrightBe Still, That Elusive Spark
Sachiko Murakami 1980poetThe Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render
George Murray 1971poetThe Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms
Morgan Murray novelistDirty Birds
Sheila Murray novelist, short storiesFinding Edward
John Murrell 19452019playwright
Susan Musgrave 1951poet, novelistThe Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids
Maria Mutch memoirist, short storiesKnow the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Téa Mutonji short storiesShut Up You're Pretty

N

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Ira Nadel 1943biography, literary criticismVarious 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 novelistIf an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Hasan Namir 1987novelistGod in Pink
Shenaaz Nanji 1954young adult literatureChild of Dandelions
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk 19312007novelist Sanaaq
Akhtar Naraghi novelist, poetThe Big Green House
André Narbonne novelist, poet, short storiesTwelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia
Angela Narth 1946children's literature, non-fictionSimon With Two Left Feet
Jim Nason novelist, poet, short storiesThe Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow
Riel Nason young adult novelist The Town That Drowned
Dimitri Nasrallah 1977novelistBlackbodying, Hotline
Michael Nathanson playwrightTalk
Blaise Ndala novelistJ'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov
Jen Neale novelistLand Mammals and Sea Creatures
Émile Nelligan 18791941poetÉmile Nelligan et son œuvre
Max Nemni political scientist, biographer Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed
Monique Nemni 1936linguist, biographer Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed
Pierre Nepveu 1946poet, novelistRomans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
Sylvain Neuvel 1973science fictionSleeping Giants
John Newlove 19382003poetLies, The Night the Dog Smiled
Peter C. Newman 1929journalistThe Canadian Establishment
B. P. Nichol 19441988poetKonfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology
Cecily Nicholson poetFrom the Poplars, Wayside Sang
Hal Niedzviecki 1971novelist, criticDitch, We Want Some Too
Susin Nielsen children's and young adult literature The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Frederick Niven 18781944novelistThe Flying Years
Fraser Nixon crime novelistThe Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head
Francine Noël 1945novelist, playwrightLa Femme de ma vie
Henri Nouwen 19321996theologianThe Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love
Mary Novik 1945novelistConceit
Alden Nowlan 19331983poetBread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself

O

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Keith Oatley 1939novelist, psychology, scholarThe Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions
Sheldon Oberman 19492004children's literatureThe Shaman's Nephew
Theodore Odrach 19121964novelistWave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories
Rohan O'Grady 19222014novelistLet's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal
Howard O'Hagan 19021982novelist, short storiesTay John
Alix Ohlin novelist, short storiesInside, Signs and Wonders
Alexandra Oliver 1970poetMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Tolu Oloruntoba poetThe Junta of Happenstance
Bryan Lee O'Malley 1979graphic novelist Scott Pilgrim
Heather O'Neill 1973novelist Lullabies for Little Criminals
Michael Ondaatje 1943novelist, poet The English Patient , In the Skin of a Lion , Anil's Ghost
Christopher Ondaatje 1933writer, publisherThe 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 novelistThe Son of the House
Kenneth Oppel 1967children's literatureAirborn Series, Silverwing saga
Stephen Osborne 1947journalistIce & Fire: Dispatches from the New World
Gabriel Osson novelist, poet, memoiristLe jour se lèvera
Martha Ostenso 19001963novelist, screenwriterWild Geese
Lawrence O'Toole film critic, memoiristHeart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home
Fernand Ouellette 1930poet, novelistLucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures
Susan Ouriou 1955novelist, short stories, translatorDamselfish
James Macdonald Oxley 18551907novelist (juvenile)

P

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Frank L. Packard 18771942Novelist The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Susan Paddon poetTwo Tragedies in 429 Breaths
P. K. Page 19162010poet
Basil Papademos 1957eroticaMount Royal
Aaron Paquette 1974young adult literature, fantasyLightfinder
Jivesh Parasram playwrightTake d Milk, Nah?
Arleen Paré 1946poet, novelistPaper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains
Erna Paris literary non-fictionLong Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
Fawn Parker novelist, poet, short storiesWhat We Both Know
Gilbert Parker 18621932novelist The Seats of the Mighty , The Lane that Had No Turning
Amy Parkinson 18551938poetLove Through All, Best
Jocelyn Parr fictionUncertain Weights and Measures
Amanda Parris playwrightOther Side of the Game
Markoosie Patsauq 19422020fictionHarpoon of the Hunter
Kevin Patterson 1964novelist, memoiristCountry of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between
Raymond M. Patterson 18981984
Philip Kevin Paul poetTaking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger
Loghan Paylor novelist, short storiesThe Cure for Drowning
Joan Payzant 19252013columnist, historical, children's fictionWho's a Scaredy-Cat!: A Story of the Halifax Explosion
Kit Pearson 1947children's literature, young adult literature Awake and Dreaming, The Sky is Falling, A Handful of Time
Soraya Peerbaye poet, dramatistPoems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell
Francine Pelletier 1959science fiction, young adult literature
Fred Pellerin 1976short stories
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez 1971children's, memoirist, academicAre You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant
Louise Penny 1958mysteriesStill Life, A Fatal Grace , The Cruelest Month
H. R. Percy 19201997novelist, short storiesPainted Ladies
Susan Perly novelist, short storiesLove Street, Death Valley
Amanda Peters novelist, short storiesThe Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon
Bradley Peters poetSonnets from a Cell
Jordan Peterson 1962applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar Maps of Meaning , 12 Rules for Life , Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five
Len Peterson 19172008
Zoey Leigh Peterson novelistNext Year, for Sure
Geneviève Pettersen 1982novelist, bloggerLa déesse des mouches à feu
Josephine Phelan 19051979History, biographyThe Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee
Edward O. Phillips 19312020novelistSunday's Child, Buried on Sunday
Wendy Phillips children's literatureFishtailing
Lorne Pierce 18901961literary critic
Joseph Jomo Pierre playwrightShakespeare's Nigga
Emmanuelle Pierrot 1994novelistLa version qui n'intéresse personne
Leslie Hall Pinder 19482021fictionOn Double Tracks
Sarah Pinder poetCutting Room, Common Place
William Ping fictionHollow Bamboo
Joseph Pivato 1946literary critic, editorEcho: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing
Hazel Jane Plante novelistLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City
Michel Pleau 1964poetLa lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit
Casey Plett 1987short stories, novelistA Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of A Woman
Jacques Poitras journalist, non-fictionBeaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future
Craig Poile poetFirst Crack, True Concessions
Daniel Poliquin 1953
Sharon Pollock 19362021
Michael Poole 19362010non-fiction Romancing Mary Jane
Helen Fogwill Porter 1930non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwrightBelow the Bridge, Finishing School
Michelle Porter novelist, poet, non-fictionInquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story
Liza Potvin 1958non-fiction White Lies (for my mother)
Gabrielle Poulin 19292015novelist, poetLa Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison
Jacques Poulin 1937novelist Volkswagen Blues
Christine Pountney 1971novelistLast Chance Texaco
Joël Pourbaix 1958poetLe mal du pays est un art oublié
Steve Poutré 1979novelistLait cru
B.W. Powe 1955philosopherA Canada of Light
Kerry Lee Powell poet, short storiesThe Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
Craig Francis Power novelistBlood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love
Paul David Power playwrightCrippled
E. J. Pratt 18831964poet
Steven Price poet, novelistAnatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness
Robert Priest 1951poet
Alex Pugsley 1963novels, short stories, screenwriter Dirty Singles , Aubrey McKee
Kate Pullinger 1961novels, experimental/online fictionThe Mistress of Nothing
Al Purdy 19182000poet
Andrew Pyper 1968novelistLost Girls, The Trade Mission

Q

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley young adult literatureSkraelings, How Things Came to Be
Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley young adult literatureSkraelings, How Things Came to Be
Darlene Quaife 1948novelistBone Bird
Andy Quan 1969novelistCalendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions
Paul Quarrington 19532010novelist, screenwriter Whale Music , King Leary
Meredith Quartermain 1950poet, fictionVancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet
Marion Quednau 1952novelist, poet, short stories, children's literatureThe Butterfly Chair, Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
Sina Queyras 1963poet, novelistLemon Hound, MxT, Autobiography of Childhood
Christine Quintana playwrightSelfie
Pascale Quiviger 1969novelistLe Cercle parfait

R

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Tom Rachman 1974novelistThe Imperfectionists
Thomas Head Raddall 19031994novelistThe Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories
Kenneth Radu 1945novelist, poet, short storiesThe Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance
Nasrin Rahimieh Persian literatureMissing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage
Deepa Rajagopalan short storiesPeacocks of Instagram
Danny Ramadan 1984novelist, short storiesDeath and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing
Menaka Raman-Wilms journalist, novelistThe Rooftop Garden
Gurcharan Rampuri 19292018
Gord Rand playwrightOrgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams
Edeet Ravel 1955novelistA Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers
Angela Rawlings 1978
Ben Rayner music journalist
Mark A. Rayner
James Reaney 19262008poet, playwrightThe Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark , Black Donnelly's
Kelly Rebar 1956playwright, screenwriter Bordertown Café
Duke Redbird 1939poet, academic, journalist
Corey Redekop novelist, short storiesHusk
Michael Redhill 1966novelist, short stories Martin Sloane , Bellevue Square
Beatrice Redpath 18861937poet, short storiesDrawn Shutters, White Lilac
Roberta Rees 1954novelist, poet, short storiesEyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers
Iain Reid 1980novelist, memoiristThe Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Gayla Reid 1945novels, short storiesTo Be There With You
Raziel Reid 1990young adult novelist When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Stephen Reid 19502018memoirist, novelistJack Rabbit Parole
Zalika Reid-Benta short storiesFrying Plantain
Kati Rekai 19212010The 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 storiesGood Citizens Need Not Fear
Shane Rhodes poetThe Holding Pattern, The Bindery
François Ricard 19472022biographer, essayistLa littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie
Nino Ricci 1959novelist Lives of the Saints
Waubgeshig Rice novelist, short storiesMidnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow
David Adams Richards 1950novelist The Bay of Love and Sorrows , Mercy Among the Children , Nights Below Station Street
Evelyn M. Richardson 19021976novelistDesired Haven
Jael Richardson memoirist, playwrightThe Stone Thrower
John Richardson 17961852novelistWacousta
Robin Richardson poetGrunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want
Edward Riche 1961novelist, screenwriterRare Birds
Daniel Richler 1957novelist, journalistKicking Tomorrow
Emma Richler 1961novelist, short storiesSister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs
Jacob Richler journalist
Mordecai Richler 19312001novelist The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , Joshua Then and Now , Barney's Version
Nancy Richler 19572018novelistYour Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride
Noah Richler journalistThis Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War
Emily Riddle poetThe Big Melt
Tanis Rideout poet, novelistAbove All Things
Sandra Ridley poetSilvija, Vixen
T. F. Rigelhof 1944novelist, memoirist, literary criticA Blue Boy in a Black Dress
Sharon Riis 19472016novelist, short stories, screenwriterThe True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton)18951960novelist Thirty Acres
Charles Ritchie 19061995diaristAn Appetite for Life, The Siren Years
Thomas Beattie Roberton 18791936journalist, criticTBR: Newspaper Pieces
Charles G.D. Roberts 18601943poet, novelistThe Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg
Ken Roberts 1946
Paul William Roberts 19502019
Bill Robertson screenwriter The Events Leading Up to My Death , Apartment Hunting
Lisa Robertson 1961poet
Margaret Murray Robertson 18231897novelist
John Daniel Robins 18841952humoristThe Incomplete Anglers
Eden Robinson 1968novelist Monkey Beach , Son of a Trickster
J. Jill Robinson 1955short stories, creative non-fictionLovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire
Peter Robinson 1950mystery
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 18351921pioneer, travelerOn Trek in the Transvaal
Ajmer Rode poet, playwright, translator
Spider Robinson 1948science fiction, humorist Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Grace Dean Rogers 18631958Novelist, historianStories of the Land of Evangeline
Ian Rogers 1976supernatural and horror fictionEvery House Is Haunted
Linda Rogers 1944
Richard Rohmer 1924
Mathieu Rolland 1989novelistSouvenir de Night, De grandes personnes
Leon Rooke 1934novelist Shakespeare's Dog , A Bolt of White Cloth
Patrick Roscoe 1967novelist, short storiesBirthmarks, God's Peculiar Care
Rose Reisman nutritiology writerManhattan's Dessert Scene: New York City's Top Dessert Spots Reveal Their Secret Recipes
Rachel Rose 1970poetSong and Spectacle
Simon Rose 1961science fiction and fantasy novelistThe Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy
Rebecca Rosenblum 1978short storiesOnce
Leonard Rosmarin novelist
Sinclair Ross 19081996short stories, novelist As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial
Stuart Ross 1959poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writerThe Book of Grief and Hamburgers, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
Nancy-Gay Rotstein poet, novelist
Jeffrey Round poet, mysteriesThe P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain
Andrea Routley short storiesJane and the Whales
André Roy 1944poet, criticAction writing
Matthew J. Royal 18631900novelist and playwrightThe Isle of the Virgins: A Romance, Aunt Hannah
Gabrielle Roy 19091983novelist The Tin Flute , Children of My Heart
Holley Rubinsky 19432015novelist, short storiesAt First I Hope For Rescue, Rapid Transits and Other Stores, Beyond This Point
Jane Rule 19312007novelistDesert of the Heart
Alexei Maxim Russell 1976novelistTrueman Bradley - Aspie Detective
Harley Rustad 1985non-fiction author, journalistBig Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death
Elizabeth Ruth 1968novelistSmoke
Naben Ruthnum novelist, non-fictionCurry: Reading, Eating and Race, Find You in the Dark
Garry Ryan mysteries, historical fictionThe Lucky Elephant Restaurant, Malabarista, Blackbirds
George Ryga 19321987playwright and novelist The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Geoff Ryman 1951

S

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Michelle Sagara 1963fantasy
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard playwrightGas Girls, A Man A Fish
Rodney Saint-Éloi poetJacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé
Kerri Sakamoto 1960novelistThe Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts
Mark Sakamoto 1977memoiristForgiveness
Trish Salah poetWanting in Arabic
Rebecca Salazar poetsulphurtongue
G. Herbert Sallans 18951960novelistLittle Man
Rick Salutin 1942columnist, novelistA Man of Little Faith
Laura G. Salverson 18901970novelistThe Dark Weaver
Liselle Sambury fantasy, young adultBlood Like Magic
Shelly Sanders 1964novelist, journalistThe Rachel Trilogy
Susan Sanford Blades novelistFake It So Real
Robyn Sarah 1949poet, short storiesPromise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me
Mairuth Sarsfield 19252013novelist No Crystal Stair
Jocelyne Saucier 1948novelistIl pleuvait des oiseaux
John Ralston Saul 1947essayist, philosopherThe Unconscious Civilization
Gloria Sawai 19322011short stories, novelistA Song for Nettie Johnson
Robert J. Sawyer 1960science fiction The Neanderthal Parallax , Calculating God , Flashforward , Rollback
Arthur Scaife 18551934short stories, novelist, poetryThree Letters of Credit and Other Stories
Dominique Scali novelistÀ la recherche de New Babylon
Alan Scarfe 1946novelistThe Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit
Jacob Scheier 1980poetMore to Keep Us Warm
Libby Scheier 19462000poet, short storiesKaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners
Diane Schoemperlen 1954novelistIn the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion
Stephen Scobie 1943poetMcAlmon's Chinese Opera
Anakana Schofield 1971novelistMalarky
Adam Lewis Schroeder novelist, short storiesIn the Fabled East
Andreas Schroeder 1946
Gregory Scofield 1966poetThe Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
Chris Scott 1945novelistAntichthon, Jack
Duncan Campbell Scott 18621947poetIn the Village of Viger
Frank Scott 18991985poet
Gail Scott 1945novelist, essayistMy Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error
Jordan Scott poetSilt, blert, Night & Ox
R.T.M. Scott 18821966novelistSecret Service Smith
Richard Scrimger children's writer, novelist
Jasmine Sealy novelist, short storiesThe Island of Forgetting
Djanet Sears 1959playwrightThe Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
Paul Seesequasis novelist, journalistTobacco Wars, Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun
Benjamin Sehene 1959novelist, essayist, political writer
Sarah Selecky 1974short stories This Cake Is for the Party
Bev Sellars memoiristThey Called Me Number One
Shyam Selvadurai 1965novelist Funny Boy , Cinnamon Gardens
Bruce Serafin 2007creative non-fiction Stardust
Robert W. Service 18741958poet The Cremation of Sam McGee , The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Ernest Thompson Seton 18601946
Mark Shainblum 1963
Lionel Shapiro 19081958novelist, journalistThe Sixth Of June, They Left The Back Door Open
Leanne Shapton 1973graphic novelistImportant Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry
Gaurav Sharma 1992novelist, author God of the Sullied , Gone are the Days , The Indian Story of an Author
Sarah Sheard 1953
Sheung-King novelistYou Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
Murphy O. Shewchuk 1943writer, photographerOkanagan Trips and Trails, Coquihalla Trips and Trails, Cariboo Trips and Trails
Francis Sherman 18711926poet
Valerie Sherrard 1957children's and young adult literatureThe Glory Wind
Carol Shields 19352003novelist, short stories The Stone Diaries , Larry's Party
Erin Shields playwrightIf We Were Birds
Aki Shimazaki 1954
Ann Shin poet, novelist, filmmakerThe Last Exiles
Adam Shortt 18591931historianCanada and its Provinces, (23 vols)
Vivek Shraya 1981short storiesGod Loves Hair
Eric Siblin journalist, music writerThe Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Maggie Siggins 1942historian, biographiesRiel
Antanas Sileika 1953novels, fiction, essaysBuying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller
Ana Siljak historianAngel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World
Makeda Silvera 1955The Heart Does Not Bend
Louise Simard 1950
Jessie Sime 18681958NovelistOur Little Life
Bren Simmers 1976poetNight Gears
Merilyn Simonds 1949creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoiristThe Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror,The Paradise Project
Colin Simpson
Bardia Sinaee poetIntruder
Andy Sinclair novelist, short storiesBreathing Lessons
Jaspreet Singh 1969
Mark Sinnett novelist, poet, short storiesThe Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore
George Sipos memoirist, poetThe Geography of Arrival, Anything But the Moon
Johanna Skibsrud 1980novelist, poet The Sentimentalists
Marsha Skrypuch 1954young adult, children's fiction, narrative non-fictionMaking Bombs for Hitler, Stolen Child, Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
Josef Skvorecky 19242012novelist, essayistThe Engineer of Human Souls
Joshua Slocum 18441909
Carolyn Smart 1952poetHooked
Elizabeth Smart 19131986 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Gwen Smid 1979fiction, picture booksMary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario
Jean Edward Smith 19322019
Michael V. Smith novelistCumberland
Neil Smith 1964short storiesBang Crunch
Russell Smith 1963journalist, novelistHow Insensitive, Muriella Pent
Carrie Snyder short storiesHair Hat, The Juliet Stories
Mary Soderstrom 1942novelist, short stories, non-fictionThe Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
Caro Soles mystery, science fiction, fantasy, eroticaDrag Queen in the Court of Death
Evan Solomon 1968journalist, novelistCrossing the Distance
Madeline Sonik 1960
J. Dewey Soper 18931982naturalist
Carolyn Marie Souaid 1959poet, editorSwimming into the Light, Blood is Blood
Gaétan Soucy 19582013novelist L'Immaculée conception , La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
Raymond Souster 19212012poet
Esta Spalding
Linda Spalding 1943The Follow,The Purchase
Rae Spoon songwriter, short storiesFirst Spring Grass Fire
Michelle Spring 1947sociologist, mystery fictionEvery Breath You Take, Standing in the Shadows, In the Midnight Hour
Birk Sproxton 19432007
Amy Spurway novelistCrow
Eva Stachniak 1952novelistNecessary Lies, The Winter Garden
Edna Staebler 19062006journalist, Mennonite cookingFood That Really Schmecks cookbook series
Ted Staunton 1956children's literature, picture booksPuddleman, Who I'm Not, Harry and Clare's Amazing Staycation
Robert Stead 18801959novelist, poetGrain
John Steffler 1947poet, novelistThe Afterlife of George Cartwright
Fred Stenson 1951
Alexander Maitland Stephen 18821942poet, novelistThe Rosary Of Pan, The Kingdom Of The Sun
Arran Stephens 1944The Compassionate Diet
Angela Sterritt journalistUnbroken: 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 19412004journalist, editor
Bill Stilwell
Kathy Stinson 1952
John Elizabeth Stintzi poet, novelistVanishing Monuments, Junebat
Cassie Stocks novelistDance, Gladys, Dance
Aryeh Lev Stollman 1954novelist, short storiesThe Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul
Anne Stone Indelible
Arthur G. Storey 19152005novelistPrairie Harvest
Allan Stratton 1951playwright
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer 18741950screenwriter, novelist
Cordelia Strube 1960novelist, dramatistAlex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon
Alan Sullivan 18681947poet, novelistThree Came to Ville Marie
Moez Surani 1979poetReticent Bodies
Rajiv Surendra 1989memoiristThe Elephants in My Backyard
Joel A. Sutherland 1980novelist, short storiesFrozen Blood
David Suzuki 1936scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host The Sacred Balance , Genethics , The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future
Mary Swan 1953novelist, short storiesThe Boys in the Trees
Susan Swan 1945
Anna Swanson poetThe Nights Also
Robert Sward 1933
Margaret Sweatman 1953novelistFox, The Players
George Swede 1940
Alastair Sweeny 1946
Michael Ernest Sweet 1979poetry, essay, nonfiction
Guy Sylvestre 19182010journalist, critic
Olivier Sylvestre 1982playwright, short storiesLa beauté du monde, La loi de la gravité, Noms fictifs
Harry L. Symons 18921962novelist, humoristOjibway Melody
Scott Symons 19332009novelist, journalistPlace d'Armes, Civic Square
Shawn Syms 1970journalist, short storiesNothing Looks Familiar
George Szanto 1940novels, short stories, criticism, biography, playsNot Working, Friends & Marriages, Theater and Propaganda, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island, Bog Tender
Gillian Sze poetQuiet Night Think
Anne Szumigalski 19221999poetVoice

T

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Tanya Talaga journalistSeven Fallen Feathers
Kenneth Tam 1984novelistDefense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series
Mariko Tamaki 1975short fiction, plays, graphic novelist Skim , Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire
Darcy Tamayose novelist, short storiesOdori, Ezra's Ghosts
Shelley Tanaka 1950editor, children's non-fictionAmelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic
Jordan Tannahill 1988playwrightBravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company
Olivia Tapiero 1990novelistLes Murs, Rien du tout
Jules-Paul Tardivel 18511905
Dennis E. Taylor novelist, short storiesBobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap
Gladys Taylor 19172015novelist, memoirist, newspaper editorPine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom
Timothy Taylor 1963novelist, short stories Stanley Park
Saeed Teebi short storiesHer First Palestinian
Ningeokuluk Teevee 1963children's literatureAlego
Wayne Tefs 19472014
Richard Teleky 1944novelist, poet, short stories, non-fictionThe Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon
Charles Templeton 19152001
John Terpstra 1953poet
Bill Terry non-fiction, gardeningBlue Heaven
Adeline Margaret Tesky 18551924novelist, short storiesWhere the Sugar Maple Grows
Souvankham Thammavongsa 1978poet, short storiesSmall Arguments, Light, How to Pronounce Knife
Yasuko Thanh 1971novelist, short storiesFloating Like the Dead
France Théoret 1942novelist, poetL'homme qui peignait Staline, Cruauté du jeu
Denis Thériault 1959
Yves Thériault 19151983novelist, short storiesAgaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide
Sharon Thesen 1946poetThe Good Bacteria
Serge Patrice Thibodeau 1959poetLe Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague
Madeleine Thien 1974short stories, novelistSimple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter
Kai Cheng Thom 1991novelist, poeta place called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Audrey Thomas 1935novelistSongs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa
Colin Thomas 1939playwrightOne Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion
Joan Thomas 1949novelist Reading by Lightning , Curiosity, The Opening Sky, Five Wives
Kai Thomas novelistIn the Upper Country
Clayton Thomas-Müller memoiristLife in the City of Dirty Water
John Thompson 19381976
Peggy Thompson 19012009screenwriter The Lotus Eaters , Better Than Chocolate
Jan Thornhill 1955children's literature, scienceI Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC
Elizabeth Thornton 19402010
Russell Thornton 1959poetHouse Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
Kim Thúy 1968novelist Ru
Matthew Tierney 1970poetProbably Inevitable
Sara Tilley 1978novelist, playwrightSkin Room, Duke
Miriam Toews 1964novelist A Complicated Kindness , Irma Voth , All My Puny Sorrows
Morley Torgov 1927
Lola Lemire Tostevin
Gérald Tougas 19332019novelist, short storiesLa Mauvaise foi, Le deuxième train de la nuit
Paul Toupin 19181993playwright, essayist, memoiristBrutus, Souvenirs pour demain
William Toye 19262024author, editorOxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson
Matthew J. Trafford short storiesThe Divinity Gene
Michaël Trahan 1984poetNœud coulant, La raison des fleurs
Catharine Parr Traill 18021899memoiristLife in the Backwoods of Canada
Rhea Tregebov 1953poetRemembering History
Lise Tremblay 1957
Michel Tremblay 1942playwright Les Belles-soeurs
Sylvain Trudel 1963novelist
Stuart Trueman 19111995journalist, humorist, historianYou're Only as Old as You Act
Brian Tucker novelistBig White Knuckles
Aren X. Tulchinsky 1958novelist, screenwriterThe Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature
Élise Turcotte 1957
Roxane Turcotte 1952children's and youth literature writerBilou et la libraire du tonnerre
Pierre Turgeon 1947novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisherThe First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983
Chris Turner 1973non-fiction Planet Simpson , The Geography of Hope
Michael Turner 1962novelist, songwriterAmerican Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo
Arielle Twist poetDisintegrate / Dissociate

U

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Andrew Unger 1979novelist, satirist Once Removed , The Daily Bonnet
Marie Uguay 19551981poetSigne et rumeur
Chimwemwe Undi poetScientific Marvel
Priscila Uppal 19742018poet, novelistThe Divine Economy of Salvation
Emily Urquhart 1977non-fictionBeyond the Pale, Ordinary Wonder Tales, The Age of Creativity
Jane Urquhart 1949novelistAway, The Stone Carvers
Geoffrey Ursell 19432021novelist, playwright, poetPerdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie
David UU (David W. Harris) 19481994visual poetChopped Liver

V

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
W. D. Valgardson 1939novelist, poet, short storiesThe Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories
Pierre Vallières 19381998political essayist Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique
Edo Van Belkom 1962horrorArmy of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf
Richard Van Camp 1971novelist, short stories, children's literature The Lesser Blessed
Guy Vanderhaeghe 1951novelist, short stories The Englishman's Boy , The Last Crossing
Aritha Van Herk 1954novelistJudith, No Fixed Address
Kasia Van Schaik novelistWe Have Never Lived on Earth
A. E. van Vogt 19122000science fiction Children of Tomorrow , Empire of the Atom
Jean Vanier 19282019theologianBecoming Human
Anuja Varghese short storiesChrysalis
Sugith Varughese 1957playwright, film and televisionThe Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones
M. G. Vassanji 1950novelist The Book of Secrets , The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Caelum Vatnsdal 1970film historyThey Came From Within, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me
R. M. Vaughan 19652020novelist, poetA Quilted Heart, Spells
Guillermo Verdecchia 1962playwrightInsomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures
Robert Verdun non-fiction, investigative reportingThe Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada
Paul Vermeersch 1973poetBurn
Katherena Vermette 1977poet, children's literatureNorth End Love Songs
Nancy Vickers 1946novelist, poetCapharnaum
Gilles Vigneault 1928poet, storyteller, singer-songwriterMon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé
Margaret Visser 1940philosopherThe Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate
Claude Vivier 19481983composer, poet, librettist Kopernikus , Lonely Child , Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire
Élisabeth Vonarburg 1947science fictionChroniques du pays des mères
Garth Von Buchholz 1968poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fictionMad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems
John Voss 18581922memoirsThe Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
Peter Vronsky 1956investigative 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 1959fictionPalawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown
Prvoslav Vujcic 1960poet, authorThoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind
Dan Vyleta 1974novelist, historianPavel & I, The Quiet Twin

W

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Marie Wadden non-fictionWhere the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan
Tracey Waddleton short storiesSend More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious
Mark Sweeten Wade 18581929historianThe Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62
Richard Wagamese 19552017novelistIndian Horse, Medicine Walk
Colleen Wagner 1949playwrightThe Monument
Fred Wah 1939poet, novelistDiamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan
David Walker 19111992novelistThe Pillar, Digby
Joan Walker novelistPardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure
Aimee Wall novelistWe, Jane
Bronwen Wallace 19451989poet, short storiesSigns of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To
Frederick William Wallace 18861958journalist, novelistWooden Ships and Iron Men
William Stewart Wallace 18841970historianThe Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Paul A. W. Wallace 18911967historian, anthropologistIndians in Pennsylvania
Tom Walmsley 1948novelist, dramatist, poetDoctor Tin
Natalie Zina Walschots 1983novelist, poetHench
Eric Walters 1957novelistSafe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run
John Leigh Walters 1933creative non-fiction A Very Capable Life
Jack Wang short storiesWe Two Alone
Russell Wangersky novelist, short stories, journalistThe Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House , The Glass Harmonica
Ryan Ward 1990screenwriter Son of the Sunshine
Sabrina Ward Harrison 1975spirituality, self-helpSpilling Open
Dianne Warren 1950playwright, novelist, short storiesSerpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water
David Watmough 19262017playwright, novelist, short storiesNames for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers
Paul Watson 1950conservationist, author, activist, poetEarth 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 19091998novelistThe Double Hook
Alison Watt 1957creative non-fiction, poet The Last Island
Thomas Waugh 1948academic, art and film historianOut/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection
Alison Wearing 1967travelHoneymoon in Purdah
Jessica L. Webb mysteriesPathogen, Repercussions
Barry Webster 1961novels, short stories; magic realism The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones
Andrew Wedderburn novelistThe Milk Chicken Bomb
John Weier 1949poetStand the Sacred Tree
Matthew James Weigel poetWhitemud Walking
Steve Weiner 1947novelistThe Museum of Love
William Weintraub 19262017
Helen Weinzweig 19152010novelist, short storiesBasic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof
Merrily Weisbord journalistThe Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror
Elizabeth Wellburn 1955children's literatureEchoes From the Square
Zachariah Wells 1976poet, criticFool's Errand, Unsettled
Andrea Werhun memoiristModern Whore
Martin West novelist, short storiesCretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, Long Ride Yellow
Andrew Westoll science, travel, non-fiction The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Robert Paul Weston 1975poet, children's literatureZorgamazoo, Dust City
Michael Wex 1954novelist, playwright, non-fictionThe Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist
Ron Weyman 19152007television, mystery, memoirSherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast, Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise, Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West
Dawud Wharnsby 1972poet, songwriterNasheed Artist
Thomas Wharton 1963novelistSalamander, Icefields
Sherry White screenwriter Crackie , Down to the Dirt
Joshua Whitehead poet, novelistFull-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed
William Whitehead 19312018documentarian, memoiristWords to Live By
Douglas Whiteway novelist, journalistFather Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead
Zoe Whittall 1976
Armin Wiebe 1948novelist, playwright The Salvation of Yasch Siemens , Tatsea
Rudy Wiebe 1934novelistA Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many
Audrée Wilhelmy 1985novelistOss, Les Sangs
Helen Waldstein Wilkes 1936creative non-fiction Letters from the Lost
Elyse Willems 1986children's literatureA Night in Halloween House
Fred Williams 18631944journalism, historyThe Canadian Book of Days
Jeffery Williams 19202011military historianByng of Vimy, Far from Home
Deborah Willis 1982fiction writerVanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories
Jenny Heijun Wills memoiristOlder Sister, Not Necessarily Related
Alan R. Wilson novelist, poetBefore the Flood
Anne Elizabeth Wilson 19011946poet, short story writer, non-fiction writerEager Footsteps
Antoine Wilson 1971novelistPanorama City, Mouth to Mouth
Douglas Wilson 19501992novelist, poetLabour of Love
Eric Wilson 1940mysteriesTom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books)
Ethel Wilson 18881980novelistSwamp Angel, Hetty Dorval , The Window
John Wilson 1951historical fiction Four Steps to Death , Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning
Jonathan Wilson playwrightMy Own Private Oshawa, Kilt
Robert Charles Wilson 1953science fictionJulian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin
Sheri-D Wilson 1958poet, playwrightThe Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang 1983novelistSmall Beauty
Carol Windley 1947novelist, short storiesHome Schooling
Rob Winger 1974poetMuybridge's Horse
Kathleen Winter 1960novelist, short storiesBoys, Annabel
Michael Winter 1965novelistThis All Happened, The Big Why
Kari-Lynn Winters 1969children's literature, dramatist Jeffrey and Sloth , On My Walk
Wyndham Wise 1947film critic and historianTake One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Adele Wiseman 19281992novelist, poetThe Sacrifice, Old Women at Play
Christina Wong novelist, playwrightDenison Avenue
Lindsay Wong memoiristThe Woo Woo
Alan Woo 1977children's literature, poet, short storiesMaggie's Chopsticks
Jaime Woo non-fictionMeet Grindr
George Woodcock 19121995poet, criticAnarchism, The Crystal Spirit
Susan Wood 19481980critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan Energumen; criticism
Marnie Woodrow 1969novelistSpelling Mississippi
Grahame Woods 1935novelist, screenwriterBloody Harvest, War Brides , Glory Enough for All
Lance Woolaver 1948poet, playwrightWorld Without Shadows, Lord Strange
Eric Wright 19292015mysteriesThe Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man
J. F. C. Wright 19041970journalist, historianSlava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province
L. R. Wright 19392001mysteriesThe Suspect, Strangers Among Us
Richard B. Wright 19372017novelist Clara Callan
Sarah Wylie 1989novelist, young adult literatureAll These Lives
Tim Wynne-Jones 1948novelist, children's literatureSome of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro
Tim Wynveen novelistAngel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon

X

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Xiaowen Zeng journalist, short stories

Y

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
Joel Yanofsky novelistJacob's Ladder
Pierre Yergeau 1957novelistL'écrivain public
Ying Chen 1961novelistL'ingratitude, Immobile
Jean Yoon 1962poet, playwrightThe Yoko Ono Project
Alissa York 1970novelist, short storiesEffigy
Elwy Yost 19252011mysteriesWhite Shadows
Graham Yost 1959screenwriter Speed
David Young 1946novelist, playwrightInexpressible Island, Glenn
d'bi young 1977poet, playwrightblood.claat: one womban story
Ian Young 1945poet, non-fiction, journalistThe Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature
Patricia Young 1954poet, short storiesRuin & Beauty, More Watery Still, Airstream
Scott Young 19182005biographer, sportswriter, mysteriesA Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate
Terence Young 1953novelist, poet, short storiesThe Island in Winter, Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake's
Josée Yvon 19501994poet, playwrightDanseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees

Z

NameBornDiedGenreNotable works
A. Light Zachary poetMore Sure
Eve Zaremba 1930mysteriesA Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect
Robert Zend 19291985poet, fiction, multimedia artistDaymares, Oāb
Xiran Jay Zhao Novelist Iron Widow
David Zieroth 1946poetHow I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn
Larry Zolf 19342011journalistSurvival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale
Syd Zolf 1968poetHuman Resources, Masque
Daniel Zomparelli poet, short storiesDavie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Carolyn Zonailo 1947poetThe Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems
Jan Zwicky 1955poet, essayistSongs for Relinquishing the Earth

See also

Further reading

Related Research Articles

Canadian literature is written in several languages including English, French, and to some degree various Indigenous languages. It is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively. The earliest Canadian narratives were of travel and exploration.

Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigenous languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicole Brossard</span> French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist

Nicole Brossard is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.

This is an article about literature in Quebec.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francophone literature</span> Literature from the French-speaking world

Francophone literature is literature written in the French language. The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of literatures written in the English language. Writings in the French language from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland were recognised as belonging to distinct traditions long before writings from colonial territories of France. Writing in French by Africans was formerly classified as "colonial literature" and discussed as part of colonial studies for its ethnographical interest, rather than studied for its literary merit. Any texts in French from the colonies and territories that were considered to have merit were subsumed under the classification of French literature. The nature and importance of Francophone literature in various territories of the former French Empire depends on the concentration of French settlers, the length of time spent in colonial status, and how developed indigenous languages were as literary languages. It was only following the Second World War that a distinction started to be made in literary studies and anthologies between French literature and other writing in French. In 1960 Maurice Bémol published Essai sur l'orientation des littératures de langue française au XXe siècle; the plural in the title emphasised the study's new approach of examining the level of autonomy of the languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claire Martin (writer)</span> Canadian writer

Claire Martin, was the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil. She wrote mainly in French. Her novels often have themes of women's liberation and erotic relationships. Martin frequently revealed her devotions toward the "Frenchness" and Quebec nationalism as saying "I prefer to be of Quebec." or "I feel closer to love as a French-Canadian." In her works, Quebec and French-Canadian are portrayed as well-educated and living well. Martin focused her writing style on risks and illnesses of love, and wrote with prejudice and social conventions. Her works are characterized by purity and crafty use of language.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camille Roy (literary critic)</span> Canadian academic (1870–1943)

Camille Roy was a Canadian priest and literary critic. He wrote extensively about the development of French-Canadian literature, and its importance in the promotion of French language and culture and of Christian ideals.