This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Irving Abella | 1940 | 2022 | historian | None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 |
Louise Abbott | 1950 | non fiction author, photographer, filmmaker | The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence | |
Jordan Abel | poet, novelist | Empty Spaces, The Place of Scraps | ||
Mark Abley | 1955 | poet, journalist | Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages | |
Carolyn Abraham | 1968 | journalist, non-fiction | Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Eistein's Brain, The Juggler's Children: A Journey Into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us | |
Marianne Ackerman | 1952 | playwright, novelist, journalist | ||
Janice Acoose | 1954 | 2020 | journalist | Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak |
Milton Acorn | 1923 | 1986 | poet | The Island Means Minago |
José Acquelin | 1956 | poet | Anarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable | |
Ken Adachi | 1929 | 1989 | historian, critic | The Enemy That Never Was |
Barry D. Adam | 1952 | sociologist | ||
Evan Adams | 1966 | dramatist | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River | |
Ian Adams | 1937 | 2021 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence |
Mary Electa Adams | 1823 | 1898 | poet | From Distant Shores |
Gil Adamson | 1961 | novelist, short stories, poet | The Outlander | |
Caroline Adderson | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice | |
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake | ||
Marie-Célie Agnant | 1953 | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang | |
Freda Ahenakew | 1932 | 2011 | linguist, children's literature | |
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | novelist, short stories | Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Kate Aitken | 1891 | 1971 | journalist, cooking enthusiast | Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book |
Kelley Aitken | 1954 | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate | |
Will Aitken | 1949 | novelist, journalist | Terre Haute , Realia | |
Donald Akenson | 1941 | novelist, historian | ||
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm | 1965 | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet | |
Omar El Akkad | 1982 | novelist | American War , What Strange Paradise | |
Linda Aksomitis | 1954 | children's literature | Adeline's Dream | |
Kamal Al-Solaylee | 1964 | journalist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes | |
Donald Alarie | 1945 | poet | Jérôme et les mots | |
Robert Arthur Alexie | 1957 | 2014 | novelist | Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian |
André Alexis | 1957 | novelist, journalist, short stories | Childhood, Asylum, Pastoral | |
Edna Alford | 1947 | poet | ||
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | 1985 | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy | |
Nada Alic | 1986 | short stories | Bad Thoughts | |
Sandra Alland | 1973 | poet, journalist | ||
Donna Allard | 1956 | poet | ||
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) | 1941 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | ||
Grant Allen | 1848 | 1899 | science writer, novelist | The Woman Who Did |
Harper Allen | romantic fiction | |||
Lillian Allen | 1951 | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes | |
Ralph Allen | 1913 | 1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
Robert Thomas Allen | 1911 | 1990 | humorist, children's literature | The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life |
Tom Allen | 1964 | creative non-fiction | Rolling Home | |
Paul Almond | 1931 | 2015 | novelist, screenwriter | |
Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951 | 2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
Lisa Alward | 1962 | short stories | Cocktail | |
George Amabile | 1936 | poet | ||
William Lacey Amy | 1877 | 1962 | writer | 'Blue Pete' series |
Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard) | 1906 | 1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
Marguerite Andersen | 1924 | 2022 | poet | Courts métrages et instantanés |
Debra Anderson | novelist, playwright | Code White | ||
Doris Anderson | 1921 | 2007 | journalist | The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter |
Enza Anderson | 1964 | journalist | ||
Gordon Stewart Anderson | 1958 | 1991 | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
Hugh Anderson | 1890 | 1965 | playwright | Auld Lang Syne |
Patrick Anderson | 1915 | 1979 | poet | |
Rod Anderson | 1935 | poet, accounting texts | ||
Trevor Anderson | 1972 | screenwriter | ||
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | 1963 | novelist | The Cure for Death by Lightning | |
Maryse Andraos | 1988 | novelist | Sans refuge | |
Michael Andre | 1946 | poet | ||
François-Réal Angers | 1812 | 1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
Vincent Anioke | short stories | Perfect Little Angels | ||
Trey Anthony | 1974 | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair | |
Salvatore Antonio | 1976 | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen | |
Marianne Apostolides | novelist, memoirist | Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure | ||
Lisa Appignanesi | 1946 | novelist, biographer | Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir | |
Emmanuel Aquin | 1968 | novelist | ||
Hubert Aquin | 1929 | 1977 | novelist | Prochain épisode |
Nelly Arcan | 1973 | 2009 | novelist | Putain |
Gilles Archambault | 1933 | novelist | L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions | |
Bert Archer | 1968 | journalist, essayist | The End of Gay | |
Richard Arès | 1910 | 1989 | ||
Tammy Armstrong | 1974 | novelist, poet | Bogman's Music | |
Jeannette Armstrong | 1948 | novelist, poet | Slash | |
Kelley Armstrong | 1968 | horror fiction | Women of the Otherworld | |
Rebecca Agatha Armour | 1845 | 1891 | novelist, local historian | Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton |
David Arnason | 1940 | poet, novelist, historian | The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg | |
Daniel Arnold | playwright, screenwriter | Lawrence & Holloman , Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience | ||
Joanne Arnott | 1960 | poet, children's literature | Wiles of Girlhood | |
Lawrence Aronovitch | 1974 | playwright | ||
Nina Arsenault | 1974 | |||
Ryad Assani-Razaki | 1981 | novels, short stories | Deux cercles, La main d'Iman | |
Bernard Assiniwi | 1935 | 2000 | novelist, essayist, journalist | La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde |
Damien Atkins | 1975 | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project | |
Diana Atkinson | 1964 | novelist | Highways and Dancehalls | |
Margaret Atwood | 1939 | novelist, poet, critic | The Handmaid's Tale , Alias Grace , Surfacing | |
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé | 1814 | 1841 | novelist | L'influence d'un livre |
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé | 1786 | 1871 | novelist, memoirist | |
Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot) | 1947 | 2012 | novelist, short stories | Cet imperceptible mouvement |
Jean-Paul Audet | 1918 | 1993 | theologian | |
Noël Audet | 1938 | 2005 | poet, novelist | Ah, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier |
Larry Audlaluk | 1953 | memoirist | What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile | |
Ashley Audrain | 1982 | novelist | ||
Jonathan Auxier | 1981 | young adult literature | The Night Gardener | |
François Avard | 1968 | screenwriter | Les Bougon | |
Susan Avingaq | 1942 | screenwriter, children's literature | Before Tomorrow , Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil | |
Margaret Avison | 1918 | 2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
Mona Awad | 1978 | novelist, short stories | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | |
Edem Awumey | 1975 | novelist | Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales | |
Makram Ayache | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer | ||
Malcolm Azania | 1969 | science fiction | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | |
Caroline Azar | playwright | The Surreal Detective |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Todd Babiak | novelist | The Garneau Block | ||
Ken Babstock | 1970 | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht | |
Mette Bach | novelist, screenwriter | |||
Elizabeth Bachinsky | 1976 | poet | ||
Aaron Badgley | 1964 | non-fiction, biographer | Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label | |
Britta Badour | poet | Wires That Sputter | ||
Bruce Bagemihl | 1962 | science | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | |
Pierre Baillargeon | 1916 | 1967 | novelist | Le scandale est nécessaire |
Martha Baillie | 1960 | novelist | The Incident Report | |
Irene Baird | 1901 | 1981 | novelist, poetry, journalist | Waste Heritage |
Jacqueline Baker | 1967 | novelist, short stories | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours | |
R. Scott Bakker | 1967 | fantasy | Prince of Nothing | |
Sharon Bala | 1979 | novelist, short stories | The Boat People | |
Shauna Singh Baldwin | 1962 | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw | |
John Ballem | 1925 | 2010 | novelist | |
Winifred Bambrick | 1892 | 1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
Catherine Banks | c.1960 | playwright | Bone Cage | |
Himani Bannerji | 1942 | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism | |
Kaushalya Bannerji | poet | |||
Gary Bannerman | 1947 | 2011 | non-fiction | Squandering Billions |
Nick Bantock | 1949 | novelist | Griffin and Sabine | |
Simina Banu | poet | Pop, I Will Get Up Off Of | ||
Marius Barbeau | 1883 | 1969 | academic, folklorist | |
Raymond Barbeau | 1930 | 1992 | essayist, literary critic | |
Victor Barbeau | 1896 | 1994 | ||
Bruce Barber | 1950 | art critic | Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State | |
Joan Barfoot | 1946 | novelist | Dancing in the Dark, Luck | |
Keith Barker | playwright | The Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here | ||
Leslie Gordon Barnard | 1890 | 1961 | short stories, fiction | |
Robert Barr | 1849 | 1912 | novelist, short stories, humorist | The Measure of the Rule , The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
Laurent Barré | 1886 | 1964 | novelist | |
Joelle Barron | poet | Ritual Lights | ||
James Bartleman | 1939 | 2023 | memoirist, young adult literature | Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow |
John Barton | 1957 | poet | Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis | |
Gary Barwin | 1964 | novelist, children's literature, poet | Seeing Stars | |
Earl W. Bascom | 1906 | 1995 | cowboy historian | The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding |
Rodrigo Bascunan | 1976 | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System | |
Jean Basile | 1932 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
Michel Basilières | 1960 | novelist | Black Bird | |
Gurjinder Basran | 1972 | novelist | Everything Was Good-bye | |
Karen Bass | 1962 | young adult fiction | Graffiti Knight | |
Frédéric Bastien | 1972 | historian, journalist | La Bataille de Londres | |
Arjun Basu | novelist, short stories | Squishy, Waiting for the Man | ||
Andrew Battershill | novelist | Pillow | ||
Claire Battershill | short stories | Circus | ||
Bill Bauer | 1932 | 2010 | poet | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
Nancy Bauer | 1934 | arts journalist | Flora, Write This Down | |
Jeremy Bates | 1978 | novelist (suspense/horror) | Suicide Forest | |
Eli Baxter | 1954 | memoirist | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | |
Kevin Bazzana | 1963 | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould | |
Tara Beagan | 1975 | playwright | Thy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace | |
Yves Beauchemin | 1941 | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou | |
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | 1945 | novelist, playwright | ||
Doug Beardsley | 1941 | poet | Dancing Star | |
Jeann Beattie | 1922 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Blaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps |
Deni Ellis Béchard | 1974 | novelist | Vandal Love | |
Peter Behrens | 1954 | novelist, screenwriter, short-stories | The Law of Dreams | |
Henry Beissel | 1929 | non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator | Under Coyote's Eye | |
Jennifer Bélanger | 1991 | novelist | Menthol | |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | poet, memoirist | This Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body | ||
Ken Belford | 1946 | 2020 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains |
Donald Bell | 1937 | 2003 | journalist, humorist | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
William E. Bell | 1945 | 2016 | children's literature | Forbidden City |
Winthrop Pickard Bell | 1884 | 1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
Lesley Belleau | poet | Indianland | ||
Martin Bellemare | playwright | Le chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral | ||
Paul Bellini | 1959 | screenwriter, comedy | ||
John Bemrose | 1947 | journalist, novelist, playwright, poet | The Island Walkers | |
Gwen Benaway | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage | ||
Djemila Benhabib | 1972 | journalist, non-fiction | Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes | |
Nigel Bennett | 1949 | fantasy novelist | Keeper of the King, His Father's Son | |
Roxanna Bennett | poet | Unmeaningable | ||
David Bergen | 1957 | novelist | The Time in Between , A Year of Lesser | |
S. Bear Bergman | 1974 | playwright, poet | ||
David Berman | 1962 | non-fiction | Do Good Design | |
Christophe Bernard | 1982 | novelist | La bête creuse | |
Jovette Bernier | 1900 | 1981 | journalist, novelist, poet | Non Monsieur |
Sarah Bernstein | 1987 | novelist | Study for Obedience | |
Kris Bertin | short stories | Bad Things Happen | ||
Pierre Berton | 1920 | 2004 | historian, journalist, memoirist | The National Dream , The Last Spike |
Dennison Berwick | 1956 | adventure travel | Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges | |
Gérard Bessette | 1920 | 2005 | novelist | Le libraire, Le Cycle |
H. S. Bhabra | 1955 | 2000 | novelist | The Adversary, Bad Money |
Navtej Bharati | poet, publisher Third Eye Press | Leela | ||
Shashi Bhat | novelist, short stories | The Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth | ||
Dave Bidini | 1963 | journalist, non-fiction, songwriter | Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey | |
Anthony Bidulka | 1962 | mysteries | Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu | |
Nicolas Billon | 1978 | playwright, screenwriter | The Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher | |
Pierre Billon | 1937 | novelist, screenwriter | ||
Brandi Bird | poet | The All + Flesh | ||
Will R. Bird | 1891 | 1984 | novelist, non-fiction | Here Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen |
Sandra Birdsell | 1942 | novelist, short stories | The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf | |
Earle Birney | 1904 | 1995 | poet, novelist, playwright, short stories | David and Other Poems, Turvey |
Charlotte Biron | 1990 | novelist | Jardin radio | |
Carol Bishop-Gwyn | biographer, arts journalist | The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca | ||
Bill Bissett | 1939 | experimental poet | nobody owns th earth | |
Lise Bissonnette | 1945 | novelist, journalist | Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus | |
Neil Bissoondath | 1955 | novelist | A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions | |
Persimmon Blackbridge | 1951 | non-fiction, novelist | Prozac Highway | |
George G. Blackburn | 1917 | 2006 | creative non-fiction | The Guns of Normandy |
Marthe Blackburn | 1916 | 1991 | screenwriter, dramatist | A Scream from Silence , Beyond Forty , Le retour de l’âge |
Peggy Blair | non-fiction, novelist | Lament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera | ||
Marie-Claire Blais | 1939 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel , La Belle Bête |
Clark Blaise | 1940 | novelist, short stories, memoirist | Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories | |
Cassandra Blanchard | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes | ||
Robin Blaser | 1925 | 2009 | essayist, poet | |
Christie Blatchford | 1951 | 2020 | journalist, writer and broadcaster | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army |
Lance Blomgren | 1970 | short stories, essays | Walkups , Corner Pieces | |
Patricia Blondal | 1926 | 1959 | fiction, poet | A Candle to Light the Sun |
Lise Blouin | 1944 | novelist | L'Ors des fous | |
Michael Blouin | 1960 | novelist, poet | Chase and Haven, Wore Down Trust | |
Martha Blum | 1913 | 2007 | historical fiction | The Walnut Tree, The Apothecary |
Giles Blunt | 1952 | mysteries, screenwriter | Forty Words for Sorrow , Blackfly Season | |
Ali Blythe | poet | Twoism | ||
Selina Boan | poet | Undoing Hours | ||
Adam Bock | 1961 | playwright | The Receptionist, The Drunken City | |
Dennis Bock | 1964 | novelist, short stories | The Ash Garden | |
Maxime Raymond Bock | 1981 | novelist, short stories | Atavismes, Les noyades secondaires | |
Michel Bock | 1971 | historian, non-fiction | Quand la nation débordait les frontières | |
Fred Bodsworth | 1918 | 2012 | journalist, naturalist | The Last of the Curlews |
Christian Bök | 1966 | poet | Eunoia | |
Stephanie Bolster | 1969 | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
Carol Bolt | 1941 | 2000 | playwright | Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists |
Kenneth Bonert | 1972 | novelist, short stories | The Lion Seeker | |
Shane Book | poet | Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic | ||
Walter Borden | 1942 | playwright, poet | ||
Kathryn Borel | 1979 | memoirist | Corked | |
Roo Borson | 1952 | poet | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | |
Monique Bosco | 1927 | 2007 | journalist, novelist, poet, short stories | La femme de Loth |
Gérard Bouchard | 1943 | non-fiction, novelist | Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde | |
Michel Marc Bouchard | 1958 | playwright | Lilies , The Orphan Muses | |
Paul Bouchard | 1908 | 1997 | journalist | |
Eddy Boudel Tan | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide | ||
Marsha Boulton | 1952 | humorist, journalist | Letters from the Country | |
Hédi Bouraoui | 1932 | poet, novelist | Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes | |
Pierre Bourgault | 1934 | 2003 | essayist, journalist | |
Arthur Bourinot | 1893 | 1969 | poet | Under the Sun |
Pan Bouyoucas | 1946 | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea | |
Gail Bowen | 1942 | novelist, playwright | Joanne Kilbourn series | |
George Bowering | 1935 | biographer, novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water | |
Marilyn Bowering | 1949 | poet, novelist, playwright | Visible Worlds, Autobiography | |
Cedar Bowers | novelist, short stories | Astra | ||
Bonnie Bowman | novelist | Skin | ||
Randy Boyagoda | 1976 | novelist, non-fiction | Governor of the Northern Province | |
David Boyd | 1951 | children's literature | Bottom Drawer | |
George Boyd | 1952 | 2020 | playwright, screenwriter | Consecrated Ground |
Joseph Boyden | 1966 | novelist, short stories | Three Day Road , Through Black Spruce , The Orenda | |
Frances Boyle | poet, short stories | Seeking Shade | ||
Harry J. Boyle | 1915 | 2005 | humorist, novelist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
D. M. Bradford | poet | Dream of No One But Myself | ||
Karleen Bradford | 1936 | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves | |
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite | 1963 | 2008 | essayist, novelist, poet | |
Max Braithwaite | 1911 | 1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
Shannon Bramer | 1973 | poet | The Refrigerator Memory | |
Alan Bradley | 1938 | mystery | Flavia de Luce series | |
Dionne Brand | 1953 | essayist, novelist, poet | What We All Long For, Land to Light On | |
Di Brandt | 1952 | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care | |
Beth Brant | 1941 | 2015 | ||
André Brassard | 1946 | screenwriter | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard | |
Marie Brassard | playwright | |||
Jacques Brault | 1933 | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin | |
Lois Braun | 1949 | short stories | A Stone Watermelon | |
Morwyn Brebner | playwright, television writer | Music for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope , Rookie Blue | ||
Brian Brett | 1950 | novelist, memoirist, poet | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden | |
Krista Bridge | novelist, short stories | The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls | ||
Robert Bringhurst | 1946 | poet, author, typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major | |
Barry Broadfoot | 1926 | 2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
Hélène Brodeur | 1923 | 2010 | historical fiction | Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario |
Eve Brodlique | 1867 | 1949 | author, journalist | A Training School for Lovers |
David Bromige | 1933 | 2009 | poet | My Poetry |
Frances Brooke | 1724 | 1789 | novelist, essayist | The History of Emily Montague |
Bertram Brooker | 1888 | 1955 | novelist, artist | Think of the Earth |
Carellin Brooks | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach | ||
Nicole Brossard | 1943 | novelist, poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse | |
Chrystine Brouillet | 1958 | novelist, children's literature | ||
Sigmund Brouwer | 1959 | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! | |
Charles Tory Bruce | 1906 | 1971 | poet, novelist, journalist | The Mulgrave Road |
Julie Bruck | 1957 | poet | The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch | |
Tyler Brûlé | 1968 | journalist | ||
Gaétan Brulotte | 1945 | academic, novelist, playwright, short stories | ||
Nick Brune | 1952 | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture | |
Carol Bruneau | 1956 | novelist | Purple for Sky | |
Louis-Ovide Brunet | 1826 | 1876 | botany | |
Michel Brunet | 1917 | 1985 | historian | Les Canadiens après la conquête |
Cathy Marie Buchanan | 1963 | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls | |
Ernest Buckler | 1908 | 1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
Margaret Buffie | 1945 | children's literature | Who Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher | |
Gilbert Buote | 1833 | 1904 | journalist | |
Kayt Burgess | novelist | Heidegger Stairwell | ||
Tony Burgess | 1959 | novelist, screenwriter | Pontypool Changes Everything | |
Nathan Burgoine | novelist, short stories | Light | ||
Ronnie Burkett | 1957 | playwright | Tinka's New Dress | |
Mabel Burkholder | 1881 | 1973 | historian | Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories |
Bonnie Burnard | 1945 | 2017 | novelist | A Good House |
Murdoch Burnett | 1953 | 2015 | poet | Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans |
Richard Burnett | journalist | |||
Lawrence J. Burpee | 1873 | 1946 | historian | The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History |
Mick Burrs | 1940 | 2021 | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob |
Frank Christopher Busch | 1978 | novelist | Grey Eyes | |
Catherine Bush | 1961 | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement | |
Arthur de Bussières | 1877 | 1913 | poet | Les Bengalis |
Sharon Butala | 1940 | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning | |
Alec Butler | 1959 | playwright | Black Friday | |
Michelle Butler Hallett | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | This Marlowe, Constant Nobody |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Charmaine Cadeau | poet | Placeholder | ||
Cody Caetano | memoirist | Half-Bads in White Regalia | ||
Frank Oliver Call | 1878 | 1956 | poet, travel | Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth |
Barry Callaghan | 1937 | novelist, journalist | Barrelhouse Kings | |
Morley Callaghan | 1903 | 1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
Anne Cameron | 1938 | novelist, poet, short stories | Daughters of Copper Woman | |
Elspeth Cameron | 1943 | biographer | No Previous Experience | |
George Frederick Cameron | 1854 | 1885 | poet, lawyer, journalist | Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta) |
Silver Donald Cameron | 1937 | 2020 | non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist | Sailing Away From Winter |
Curtis Campbell | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay | ||
Grace Campbell | 1895 | 1963 | novelist | Thorn-apple Tree |
Nicola I. Campbell | poetry, children's literature, memoir | Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe | ||
Natalee Caple | 1970 | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World | |
Pat Capponi | 1949 | 2020 | memoirist, mystery novelist | Upstairs in the Crazy House |
Cliff Cardinal | playwright | The Land Acknowledgement | ||
Opal Carew | 1956 | romantic novelist | His To Possess | |
Dave Carley | 1953 | playwright | Writing With Our Feet | |
Louis Carmain | 1983 | novelist | Guano | |
Bliss Carman | 1861 | 1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
Jean-François Caron | 1978 | poet, novelist | De bois debout | |
Louis Caron | 1942 | novelist, television | L'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume | |
David Carpenter | 1941 | novelist, poet, essayist | A Hunter's Confession | |
Emily Carr | 1871 | 1945 | novelist, short stories | Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands |
Roch Carrier | 1937 | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey | |
Anne Carson | 1950 | poet | Autobiography of Red | |
Anne Laurel Carter | 1953 | children's fiction | The Shepherd's Granddaughter | |
Allan Casey | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada | ||
Kate Cayley | novelist, dramatist, poet | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova | ||
Denys Chabot | 1945 | novelist, historian | L'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire | |
Sébastien Chabot | 1976 | novelist | Noir métal | |
Éric Chacour | 1983 | novelist | Ce que je sais de toi | |
Perry Chafe | 1969 | television writer, novelist | Republic of Doyle , Closer by Sea | |
Robert Chafe | 1971 | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence | |
Soufiane Chakkouche | 1977 | novelist | Zahra | |
Francis Chalifour | 1977 | creative non-fiction | After | |
Gillian Chan | 1954 | children's literature | Glory Days and Other Stories | |
Robert Charbonneau | 1911 | 1967 | novelist | Ils posséderont la terre, Fontile |
David Chariandy | 1969 | novelist | Soucouyant, Brother | |
Lyne Charlebois | screenwriter | Borderline | ||
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682 | 1761 | historian | Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France |
Normand Chaurette | 1954 | playwright | Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier | |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | 1975 | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar | |
Herménégilde Chiasson | 1946 | poet, playwright | Conversations | |
Philip Child | 1898 | 1978 | novelist | Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time |
Anne Chislett | 1942 | playwright | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box | |
Ann Y. K. Choi | author | Kay's Lucky Coin Variety | ||
Ins Choi | 1974 | playwright | Kim's Convenience | |
Gabriel Cholette | memoirist | Carnets de l'underground | ||
Corinna Chong | novelist, short stories | Bad Land | ||
Denise Chong | 1953 | memoirist | The Concubine's Children | |
Kevin Chong | 1975 | novelist, memoirist | My Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity | |
Wayson Choy | 1939 | 2019 | novelist, memoirist | The Jade Peony , All That Matters , Paper Shadows |
Lesley Choyce | 1951 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | The Republic of Nothing | |
Michael Christie | short stories | The Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die | ||
Jane Christmas | 1954 | travel, memoirist | And Then There Were Nuns | |
S. D. Chrostowska | novelist, non-fiction, aphorist | Permission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book | ||
Eliza Clark | 1963 | novelist | Bite the Stars | |
Greg Clark | 1892 | 1977 | humorist | War Stories |
Joan Clark | 1934 | 2023 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires |
Austin Clarke | 1934 | 2016 | novelist | The Polished Hoe , Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack |
George Elliott Clarke | 1960 | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls , George and Rue , Black | |
Stéfanie Clermont | 1988 | novelist | Le jeu de la musique | |
David Clerson | 1978 | novelist | Frères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête | |
Mabel Clint | 1874 | 1939 | novelist, nurse | Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister |
Fabien Cloutier | 1976 | dramatist | Pour réussir un poulet | |
Lynn Coady | 1970 | novelist | Saints of Big Harbour , Strange Heaven, Hellgoing | |
Mark Coakley | true crime | Tip and Trade | ||
Devon Code | novelist, short stories | In a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Lisa Codrington | playwright | Cast Iron, Up the Garden Path | ||
Fred Cogswell | 1917 | 2004 | poet | |
Leonard Cohen | 1934 | 2016 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter | Beautiful Losers |
Matt Cohen | 1942 | 1999 | novelist | Emotional Arithmetic , Elizabeth and After |
Susan G. Cole | 1952 | journalist | Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography | |
Trevor Cole | 1960 | novelist | The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean | |
Anne Coleman | creative non-fiction | I'll Tell You a Secret | ||
Layne Coleman | playwright | Blue City Slammers | ||
Victor Coleman | 1944 | poet | ||
Don Coles | 1927 | 2017 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World |
Ruth Collie | 1888 | 1936 | poet | Known as the Poem a Day Lady |
John Robert Colombo | 1936 | poet, reference book compiler | Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References | |
Daria Colonna | 1989 | poet | Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse | |
Wayde Compton | 1972 | poet, essays, short fiction | ||
Bill Conall | novelist, humorist | The Promised Land | ||
Christy Ann Conlin | novelist, short stories | Heave, The Memento, Watermark | ||
Jan Conn | 1952 | poet, insect geneticist | South of the Tudo Bem Cafe | |
Karen Connelly | 1969 | travel, novelist, poet | Touch the Dragon,The Lizard Cage | |
Kevin Connolly | 1962 | poet, editor | Drift, Revolver | |
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon) | 1860 | 1937 | novelist, essayist | The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot |
Darla Contois | playwright | The War Being Waged | ||
George Ramsay Cook | 1931 | 2016 | historian | |
Hugh Cook | 1942 | novelist | ||
Michael Cook | 1933 | 1994 | playwright | Jacob's Wake |
Tim Cook | 1971 | military historian | Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918, No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War | |
Dennis Cooley | 1944 | poet | Irene | |
Beverley Cooper | playwright | Thin Ice, Innocence Lost | ||
Douglas Cooper | 1960 | novelist | Amnesia , Delirium | |
Paige Cooper | short stories | Zolitude | ||
Ann Copeland | 1932 | short stories | The Golden Thread | |
Judith Copithorne | 1939 | poet | ||
Carole Corbeil | 1952 | 2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | 1985 | playwright | Scratch | |
Amanda Cordner | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | ||
David Cormican | 1981 | screenwriter, producer | Northern Rescue, Réveillon | |
Michael Cormican | 1948 | 2023 | author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse | A Long Way From Tipperary |
Thomas B. Costain | 1885 | 1965 | historical fiction, non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose , The Silver Chalice |
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave | 1890 | 1971 | non-fiction | Afterthoughts of Armageddon |
Douglas Coupland | 1961 | novelist | Generation X , Girlfriend in a Coma | |
Kevin Courrier | 1954 | 2018 | biographer, music and film critic | Randy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream |
Maya Cousineau Mollen | 1975 | poet | Bréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen | |
Saros Cowasjee | 1931 | 2019 | novelist | Goodbye to Elsa |
Hugh Cowan | 1867 | 1943 | historian | Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814 |
James Alexander Cowan | 1901 | 1978 | writer, columnist | |
Daniel Allen Cox | 1976 | novelist | Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In | |
Ivan Coyote | 1969 | spoken-word poet, columnist | Bow Grip | |
Archie Crail | 1944 | playwright, short stories | Exile, The Bonus Deal | |
Isabella Valancy Crawford | 1846 | 1887 | poet, freelance | Old Spookses' Pass |
Donald Creighton | 1902 | 1979 | historian | John A. Macdonald |
Luella Creighton | 1901 | 1996 | historical fiction, children's non-fiction | High Bright Buggy Wheels |
Octave Crémazie | 1827 | 1879 | poet | |
Eva Crocker | short stories | Barrelling Forward | ||
Lynn Crosbie | 1963 | poet, novelist | Life Is About Losing Everything | |
Caleigh Crow | playwright | There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow | ||
Lorna Crozier | 1948 | poet | Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light | |
Michael Crummey | 1965 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents | |
Nancy Jo Cullen | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary | ||
Alan Cumyn | 1960 | novelist | The Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia | |
Peter Cureton | 1965 | 1994 | playwright | Passages |
Andrea Curtis | creative non-fiction | Into the Blue | ||
Herb Curtis | 1949 | novelist, humorist | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles | |
Kayla Czaga | 1989 | poet | For Your Safety Please Hold On |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Antonio D'Alfonso | 1953 | poet, novelist, bilingual writer | The Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout | |
Michel Dallaire | 1957 | 2017 | novelist, poet | Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne |
Roméo Dallaire | 1946 | documentarian, memoirist, activist | Shake Hands with the Devil , They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children | |
Anne Dandurand | 1953 | novelist | ||
Louis Dantin | 1865 | 1945 | poet, critic | Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques |
Jean-Paul Daoust | 1946 | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva | |
Peter Darbyshire | novelist | Please | ||
Jill Daum | playwright | Forget About Tomorrow | ||
Frank Davey | 1940 | poet | ||
Craig Davidson | 1976 | novelist, short stories | Rust and Bone , Cataract City | |
True Davidson | 1901 | 1978 | poet, fiction, non-fiction | The Golden Strings |
Blodwen Davies | 1897 | 1966 | historian | A Study of Tom Thomson |
Lynn Davies | 1954 | poet | The Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools | |
Robertson Davies | 1913 | 1995 | novelist | Fifth Business , What's Bred in the Bone |
Lauren B. Davis | 1955 | novelist, short stories | Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market | |
Amber Dawn | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa | ||
Caroline Dawson | 1979 | 2024 | novelist, poet, children's literature | Là où je me terre |
Nicholas Dawson | 1982 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure | |
Frank Parker Day | 1881 | 1950 | novelist | Rockbound , John Paul's Rock |
Claire Dé | 1953 | novelist, short stories | Bonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel | |
Alfred Duclos DeCelles | 1843 | 1925 | journalist, librarian | The 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion |
Mazo de la Roche | 1879 | 1961 | novelist | Jalna |
Charles de Lint | 1951 | fantasy | ||
Elisabeth de Mariaffi | short stories, poet | How to Get Along With Women | ||
Sadiqa de Meijer | 1977 | short stories, poet | Leaving Howe Island | |
James de Mille | 1833 | 1880 | novelist | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929–1939 |
Marq de Villiers | 1940 | journalist, magazine editor, science | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource | |
Anthony de Sa | novelist, short stories | Barnacle Love | ||
Patrick deWitt | 1975 | novelist | The Sisters Brothers | |
Michael Delisle | 1959 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père | |
Martine Delvaux | 1968 | novelist, non-fiction | Blanc dehors | |
David Demchuk | playwright, novelist | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise | ||
Sandra Dempsey | 1956 | |||
Barry Dempster | 1952 | |||
Dennis Denisoff | novelist, poet, academic | Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories | ||
Randall Denley | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate | ||
Adebe DeRango-Adem | poet | Terra Incognita, Vox Humana | ||
Martine Desjardins | 1957 | novelist | Le Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium | |
Roxane Desjardins | 1991 | writer, editor | Ciseaux | |
Léo-Paul Desrosiers | 1896 | 1967 | journalist, novelist | Les Engagés du Grand Portage |
Henriette Dessaulles | 1860 | 1946 | journalist, diarist | Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881 |
William Deverell | 1937 | mysteries, screenwriter | Trial of Passion, April Fool | |
Alexander Dewdney | 1941 | computer science, philosophy | ||
Christopher Dewdney | 1951 | |||
Selwyn Hanington Dewdney | 1909 | 1979 | novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author | Wind Without Rain |
Myrna Dey | novelist, journalist | Extensions | ||
Ranj Dhaliwal | 1976 | novelist | Daaku , The Gangster's Life | |
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | 1949 | 2019 | poet | The Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise |
David Di Giovanni | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | ||
Mary di Michele | 1949 | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love | |
Ann Diamond | 1951 | poet, novelist, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye | |
Don Dickinson | 1947 | novelist, short stories | Blue Husbands, The Crew | |
Nicolas Dickner | 1972 | novelist, short stories | Nikolski | |
Cherie Dimaline | 1975 | novelist, short stories | The Marrow Thieves | |
Christopher DiRaddo | 1974 | novelist | The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way | |
Dorothy Dittrich | playwright | The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher | ||
Sean Dixon | playwright | 1492, A God in Need of Help | ||
Sandra Djwa | 1939 | biography, literary criticism | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page | |
Kildare Dobbs | 1923 | 2013 | short stories | |
Farzana Doctor | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement | ||
Cory Doctorow | 1971 | science fiction | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother | |
Jeramy Dodds | 1974 | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds | |
M. T. Dohaney | 1930 | novelist, short stories | The Corrigan Women | |
Bob Dolman | 1949 | screenwriter | SCTV | |
Don Domanski | 1950 | 2020 | ||
Fernand Dorais | 1928 | 2003 | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
Candas Jane Dorsey | 1952 | science fiction | Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth | |
Clive Doucet | 1946 | |||
Lily Dougall | 1858 | 1923 | author | A Question of Faith |
Arthur Doughty | 1860 | 1936 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
Orville Lloyd Douglas | 1976 | poet | ||
James Doull | 1918 | 2001 | philosopher | |
Philippa Dowding | children's literature | Oculum, Firefly | ||
Glen Downey | 1969 | children's literature | ||
Brian Doyle | 1935 | young adult fiction | ||
Brian Drader | 1960 | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals | |
Stan Dragland | 1942 | 2022 | fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays | Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys |
Sylvie Drapeau | 1962 | novelist | Le Fleuve, La Terre | |
Don Druick | 1945 | playwright | Where Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes | |
William Henry Drummond | 1854 | 1907 | poet | The Habitant |
Klara du Plessis | poet | Ekke | ||
Marcel Dubé | 1930 | 2016 | ||
Peter Dubé | novelist, short stories | Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky | ||
Réjean Ducharme | 1941 | 2017 | ||
Louis Dudek | 1918 | 2001 | poet | |
Margaret Duley | 1894 | 1968 | novelist | The Eyes of the Gull |
Dawn Dumont | novelist, short stories | Nobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run | ||
Dave Duncan | 1933 | 2018 | ||
Sandy Frances Duncan | 1942 | novels, short fiction, mysteries | Cariboo Runaway , Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island | |
Sara Jeannette Duncan | 1861 | 1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
Warren Dunford | 1963 | novelist | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer | |
Nina Dunic | short stories, novelist | The Clarion | ||
Norma Dunning | short stories | Annie Muktuk and Other Stories | ||
Kristyn Dunnion | 1969 | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles | |
Éric Dupont | 1970 | novelist | La Logeuse, La fiancée américaine | |
Douglas Durkin | 1884 | 1967 | novelist, screenwriter | The Magpie |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lawrence Earl | 1915 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass |
Edith Maude Eaton | 1865 | 1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
Evelyn Eaton | 1902 | 1983 | novelist, poet | Quietly My Captain Waits |
Chris Eaton | 1971 | novelist, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect | |
Winnifred Eaton | 1875 | 1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
James Eayrs | 1926 | 2021 | historian | In Defence of Canada |
Kim Echlin | 1955 | novelist | The Disappeared | |
David Eddie | novelist, humorist | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control | ||
Esi Edugyan | 1978 | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne , Half-Blood Blues , Washington Black | |
Caterina Edwards | 1948 | novelist, playwright, short story writer | The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife | |
Modris Eksteins | 1943 | historian | Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty | |
Francesca Ekwuyasi | novelist | Butter Honey Pig Bread | ||
Rima Elkouri | novelist, journalist | Manam | ||
George Elliott | 1923 | 1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
Deborah Ellis | 1960 | non-fiction, young adult fiction | The Breadwinner , The Heaven Shop | |
Sarah Ellis | 1952 | children's literature | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks | |
Louis Émond | 1969 | novelist | The Manuscript | |
Marina Endicott | 1958 | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference | |
Howard Engel | 1931 | 2019 | mysteries | The Suicide Murders |
Marian Engel | 1933 | 1985 | novelist | Bear |
Yves Engler | 1979 | politics, activist | Playing Left Wing | |
Sharon English | 1965 | short stories | Zero Gravity | |
Karen Enns | poet | That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics | ||
Steven Erikson | 1959 | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series | |
Ann Eriksson | 1956 | novelist | In the Hands of Anubis | |
Thom Ernst | film critic, memoirist | The Wild Boy of Waubamik | ||
Gloria Escomel | 1941 | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion | |
Robin Esrock | 1974 | travel writer | The Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List | |
Michael Estok | 1939 | 1989 | poet | A Plague Year Journal |
Hubert Evans | 1892 | 1986 | novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature | Mist on the River |
Jon Evans | 1973 | novelist | Dark Places | |
Stanley Evans | 1931 | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Emil Fackenheim | 1916 | 2003 | historian, philosopher | |
Jean Mohsen Fahmy | 1942 | novelist, short stories, literary criticism | L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée | |
Terry Fallis | 1959 | humorist | The Best Laid Plans | |
Alain Farah | 1979 | novelist, poet | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne | |
Abla Farhoud | 1945 | 2021 | novelist, playwright | Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince |
Edmundo Farolan | 1943 | 2023 | poet, playwright, novelist | Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer |
Brian Fawcett | 1944 | 2022 | novelist, non-fiction | Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow |
Charles Fenerty | 1821 | 1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
Linda Rui Feng | novelist | Swimming Back to Trout River | ||
Ian Ferguson | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses | ||
Max Ferguson | 1924 | 2013 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow | 1947 | novelist, playwright | ||
Will Ferguson | 1964 | humorist, novelist, travel writer | Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419 | |
Raoul Fernandes | poet | Transmitter and Receiver | ||
Paola Ferrante | poet, short stories | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals | ||
Jacques Ferron | 1921 | 1985 | playwright | |
Madeleine Ferron | 1922 | 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
George Fetherling | 1949 | |||
Charlotte Fielden | 1932 | 2021 | ||
Joy Fielding | 1945 | novelist | ||
Connie Fife | 1961 | 2017 | poet | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World |
Timothy Findley | 1930 | 2002 | novelist, dramatist, short stories | The Wars , The Piano Man's Daughter |
Lois Fine | playwright | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week | ||
Larry Fineberg | 1945 | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve | |
Joe Fiorito | 1948 | novelist, columnist, memoirist | The Song Beneath the Ice | |
Sheree Fitch | 1956 | poet, novelist, children's fiction | Mabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies | |
James FitzGerald | non-fiction | Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past | ||
Judith Fitzgerald | 1952 | 2015 | ||
Polly Fleck | 1933 | 2019 | poet | The Chinese Execution |
Anne Fleming | 1964 | |||
May Agnes Fleming | 1840 | 1880 | novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
Cynthia Flood | 1940 | novelist, short stories | My Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy | |
Lisa Foad | short stories, journalist | The Night Is a Mouth | ||
Waawaate Fobister | playwright | Agokwe | ||
Jacques Folch-Ribas | 1928 | novelist | Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur | |
Naomi Fontaine | 1987 | novelist | Kuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni | |
Dennis Foon | 1951 | |||
Charles Foran | 1960 | novelist | Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire | |
John-James Ford | 1972 | |||
Paul Serge Forest | novelist | Tout est ori | ||
André Forget | novelist | In the City of Pigs | ||
Helen Forrester | 1919 | 2011 | novelist | |
Dominique Fortier | 1972 | novelist | Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer | |
Carley Fortune | 1985 | novelist | Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake | |
Cecil Foster | 1954 | |||
Marion Foster | 1924 | 1997 | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender |
Martin Fournier | 1954 | historian, young adult literature | The Adventures of Radisson | |
Roger Fournier | 1929 | 2012 | novelist, screenwriter | Le cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi |
Barbara Fradkin | ||||
Tess Fragoulis | ||||
Brian Francis | 1971 | novelist | Fruit | |
Brad Fraser | 1959 | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | |
John Anderson Fraser | 1866 | 1960 | ||
Keath Fraser | 1944 | |||
Raymond Fraser | 1941 | 2018 | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life | |
Sylvia Fraser | 1935 | novelist | ||
Louis Fréchette | 1839 | 1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
Pauline Fréchette | 1889 | 1943 | poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun | |
David French | 1939 | 2010 | playwright | |
Maida Parlow French | novelist, artist, biographer | |||
Kathy Friedman | short stories | All the Shining People | ||
Patrick Friesen | 1946 | |||
Mark Frutkin | 1948 | |||
Northrop Frye | 1912 | 1991 | critic | Anatomy of Criticism |
Kim Fu | 1987 | novelist | For Today I Am a Boy | |
Robert Fulford | 1932 | journalist | ||
Janine Fuller | 1958 | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | |
Pik-Shuen Fung | novelist | Ghost Forest | ||
Wes Funk | 1969 | 2015 | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage |
Nicola Furlong |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brendan Gall | 1978 | playwright, screenwriter | Wide Awake Hearts | |
Mavis Gallant | 1922 | 2014 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
Steven Galloway | 1975 | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
François-Xavier Garneau | 1809 | 1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912 | 1943 | poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories | Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939 |
Hugh Garner | 1913 | 1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
Alfred Garrioch | 1848 | 1934 | novelist | First Furrows |
Elyse Gasco | 1967 | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? | |
Bill Gaston | 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite | |
C. E. Gatchalian | 1974 | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time | |
Connie Gault | 1949 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty | |
Daniel Gawthrop | 1963 | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter | |
Pauline Gedge | 1945 | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions | |
John Geiger | non-fiction author | The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition | ||
Karoline Georges | 1970 | novelist, poet | De synthèse | |
Shree Ghatage | 1957 | novelist, short story writer | Awake When All the World Is Asleep | |
Camilla Gibb | 1968 | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly | |
John Murray Gibbon | 1875 | 1952 | non-fiction, novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
Chantal Gibson | poet | How She Read | ||
Douglas Gibson | 1943 | editor, publisher, memoirist | Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others | |
Graeme Gibson | 1934 | 2019 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
Margaret Gibson | 1948 | 2006 | novelist, short stories | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
William Gibson | 1948 | science fiction | Neuromancer , All Tomorrow's Parties | |
Sky Gilbert | 1952 | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space | |
Charlotte Gill | short stories, non-fiction | Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | ||
John Patrick Gillese | 1926 | 1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
Curtis Gillespie | 1960 | short stories, non-fiction, novels | The Progress of an Object in Motion, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast | |
David Gilmour | 1949 | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China | |
M-E Girard | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up | ||
Malcolm Gladwell | 1963 | journalist, sociologist | The Tipping Point , Outliers , Talking to Strangers | |
Joanna Glass | 1936 | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying | |
John Glassco | 1909 | 1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
Paul Glennon | short stories, young adult literature | The Dodecahedron, Bookweird | ||
Susan Glickman | 1953 | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape | |
Douglas Glover | 1948 | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N | |
Jacques Godbout | 1933 | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine | |
Dave Godfrey | 1938 | 2015 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
Philip H. Godsell | 1889 | 1961 | writer | Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company |
Glenda Goertzen | 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs | |
Nora Gold | 1952 | writer | Fields of Exile, The Dead Man, Marrow And Other Stories,18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas) | |
Oliver Goldsmith | 1794 | 1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
Gabriella Goliger | 1949 | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped | |
Leona Gom | 1946 | novelist, mysteries, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame | |
Michelle Good | novelist | Five Little Indians | ||
Alison Gordon | 1943 | 2015 | sports journalist, mysteries | The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball |
Charles Gordon | 1940 | newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist | The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip | |
Phyllis Gotlieb | 1926 | 2009 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
Sondra Gotlieb | 1936 | newspaper columnist | True Confections | |
Hiromi Goto | 1966 | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child | |
John Gould | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions | ||
Nora Gould | poet | I see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah | ||
George R. D. Goulet | 1933 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony | |
Terry Goulet | 1934 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied (researcher), The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony | |
Katherine Govier | 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller | |
Lee Gowan | 1961 | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy | |
Barbara Gowdy | 1950 | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone | |
Wayne Grady | 1948 | novelist, memoir, science | Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café | |
Gwethalyn Graham | 1913 | 1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
Neile Graham | 1958 | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory | |
Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874 | 1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
Jack Granatstein | 1939 | historian | ||
Linda Granfield | 1950 | children's literature | In Flanders Fields | |
E. M. Granger Bennett | 1988 | historical fiction | Short of the Glory | |
George Grant | 1918 | 1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
Hilda Kay Grant | 1910 | 1996 | writer, artist | The Salt Box |
Jessica Grant | 1972 | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise | |
Élise Gravel | 1977 | children's literature, graphic novels | Le Grand Antonio, La clé à molette | |
François Gravel | 1951 | novelist | Ostende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker | |
Charlotte Gray | 1948 | novelist, non-fiction | Mrs. King | |
R. W. Gray | short stories | Crisp, Entropic | ||
Ethel Grayson | 1890 | 1980 | novelist, poet | |
Lowell Green | 1936 | history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism | Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada! | |
Nick Green | playwright | Body Politic | ||
Robert Joseph Greene | 1973 | children's literature, romantic fiction | This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World | |
Ed Greenwood | 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms | |
Darren Greer | 1968 | novelist | Still Life with June , Just Beneath My Skin | |
James Gregor | novelist | Going Dutch | ||
Doris Gregory | autobiographer | How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story | ||
Daniel Grenier | 1980 | novelist, short stories | L’année la plus longue | |
Taras Grescoe | creative non-fiction | Sacré Blues | ||
Grey Owl | 1888 | 1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
Francis William Grey | 1860 | 1939 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Curé of St. Philippe |
Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894 | 1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
G. A. Grisenthwaite | novelist, short stories, poet | Home Waltz | ||
Lionel Groulx | 1878 | 1967 | historian | The Call of the Race |
Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879 | 1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
Brett Josef Grubisic | 1963 | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities | |
Katia Grubisic | 1978 | poet, short stories | what if red ran out | |
Agnès Gruda | journalist, short story writer | Onze petites trahisons | ||
Christian Guay-Poliquin | 1982 | novelist | Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige | |
Germaine Guèvremont | 1893 | 1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
Genni Gunn | 1949 | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless | |
Kristjana Gunnars | 1948 | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps | |
Stephen Guppy | 1951 | poet, novelist, short stories | Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy | |
David Gurr | 1936 | novelist, playwright | The Ring Master | |
Ralph Gustafson | 1909 | 1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
Don Gutteridge | 1937 | poet, novelist | ||
Guy Lawson | 1963 | journalist | War Dogs | |
Sandra Gwyn | 1935 | 2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Samra Habib | photographer, memoirist | We Have Always Been Here | ||
Chris Hadfield | 1959 | scientist, memoirist, essayist, musician | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station | |
Rawi Hage | 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game , Cockroach, Carnival | |
Joan Haggerty | 1940 | |||
Medina Hahn | playwright | Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience | ||
Roderick Haig-Brown | 1908 | 1976 | ||
Ken Haigh | 1962 | memoirist | Under the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury | |
Arthur Hailey | 1920 | 2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | 1796 | 1865 | The Clockmaker | |
Phil Hall | 1953 | poet | Killdeer | |
Louis Hamelin | 1959 | novelist, short stories, literary critic | La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx | |
Ian Hamilton | 1946 | journalist, mysteries | The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan | |
Jane Eaton Hamilton | 1954 | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger | ||
Lyn Hancock | 1938 | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon | ||
Angeline Hango | 1909 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Truthfully Yours |
Catherine Hanrahan | novelist | Lost Girls and Love Hotels | ||
Kevin Hardcastle | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Debris | |
Robin Hardy | 1952 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Call of the Wendigo, Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood |
Robyn Harding | 1969 | novelist | The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party | |
Robert Harlow | 1923 | novelist | Scann | |
Liz Harmer | novelist | The Amateurs | ||
Jennica Harper | poet, television writer | Wood, Bounce House, Jann | ||
Alexander Harris | 1805 | 1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
Claire Harris | 1937 | 2018 | ||
Dorothy Joan Harris | 1931 | children's literature | ||
Marjorie Harris | 1937 | gardening | Seasons of My Garden | |
Michael Harris | 1944 | poet | Circus | |
Michael Harris | 1948 | journalist | Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall | |
Michael Harris | 1980 | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection | |
Keith Harrison | 1945 | 2019 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
Jill Hartman | 1974 | |||
Diana Hartog | 1942 | poet, novelist | Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts | |
Kristen den Hartog | 1965 | |||
Kenneth J. Harvey | 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco | |
Kim Senklip Harvey | playwright | Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story | ||
Elisabeth Harvor | 1936 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart | |
Erum Shazia Hasan | novelist | We Meant Well | ||
Liedewy Hawke | translator | |||
Barbara Haworth-Attard | 1953 | |||
Elizabeth Hay | 1951 | novelist, non-fiction | Late Nights on Air , A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana | |
Elliott Hayes | 1956 | 1994 | ||
Matthew Hays | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers | ||
Steven Hayward | novelist, short stories | Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke | ||
Charles Heavysege | 1816 | 1876 | poet | Saul |
Anne Hébert | 1916 | 2000 | novelist, poet, short stories, novellas | Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent |
Maurice Hébert | 1888 | 1960 | novelist, poet | Le Cycle de Don Juan |
Steven Heighton | 1961 | 2022 | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer |
Sydney Hegele | short stories | The Pump | ||
William C. Heine | 1919 | 1991 | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian |
Matthew Heiti | novelist, screenwriter, playwright | Son of the Sunshine , The City Still Breathing | ||
Tyler Hellard | novelist | Searching for Terry Punchout | ||
Michael Helm | 1961 | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things | |
David Helwig | 1938 | 2018 | novelist, poet | Figures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter |
Maggie Helwig | 1961 | |||
Louis Hémon | 1880 | 1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
Lee Henderson | novelist, short stories | The Broken Record Technique , The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts | ||
Maurice Henrie | 1936 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | Le Balcon dans le ciel | |
Sarah Henstra | novelist | Mad Miss Mimic, The Red Word | ||
John Herbert | 1926 | 2001 | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes |
Sarah Herbert | 1824 | 1846 | publisher, writer, poet | The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems |
Catherine Hernandez | playwright, novelist | Scarborough | ||
Nicholas Herring | novelist | Some Hellish | ||
Trevor Herriot | naturalist | River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds | ||
Benjamin Hertwig | poet | Slow War | ||
Sheila Heti | 1976 | novelist, short stories | How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor | |
Paul Hiebert | 1892 | 1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
Tomson Highway | 1951 | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing , The Rez Sisters , Kiss of the Fur Queen | |
Lawrence Hill | 1957 | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes | |
Ernest Hillen | journalist, memoirist | The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies | ||
Robert Hilles | 1951 | poet and novelist | Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild | |
Jack Hodgins | 1938 | |||
Robert Hogg | 1942 | poet, critic | The Connexions | |
Nadia L. Hohn | children's literature | Malaika's Costume | ||
Susan Holbrook | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes | ||
Arthur Holden | 1959 | playwright, television | Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob | |
Clive Holden | poet | Trains of Winnipeg | ||
Claire Holden Rothman | 1958 | novelist, short stories | The Heart Specialist, My October | |
Pauline Holdstock | ||||
Norah M. Holland | 1876 | 1925 | poet, playwright, journalist, editor | Spun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems |
Greg Hollingshead | 1947 | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer | |
Margaret Hollingsworth | 1942 | playwright | Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands | |
Michael Hollingsworth | 1950 | playwright | The History of the Village of the Small Huts | |
Nancy Holmes | 1959 | poet | The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree | |
Margaret Lindsay Holton (a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte) | 1955 | novelist, short stories, poet, social history | Economic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs | |
David Homel | 1952 | novelist, translator | Electrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown | |
Hugh Hood | 1928 | 2000 | novelist | The New Age |
Cornelia Hoogland | 1952 | |||
Hilda Mary Hooke | 1898 | 1978 | poet, dramatist | |
Emma Hooper | 1980 | novelist | Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs | |
Nalo Hopkinson | 1960 | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber , The Salt Roads | |
Leah Horlick | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good | ||
Harold Horwood | 1923 | 2006 | ||
Karen Houle | poet | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology | ||
Liz Howard | poet | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | ||
Stevie Howell | poet | Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose | ||
Nazanine Hozar | 1978 | novelist | Aria | |
David Huebert | short stories, poetry | Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley | ||
Annie Campbell Huestis | 1878 | 1960 | short stories, poetry | Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp |
Tanya Huff | 1957 | fantasy | ||
Matt Hughes | 1949 | |||
Helen Humphreys | 1961 | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus | |
Aislinn Hunter | ||||
Bruce Hunter | 1952 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Coming Home from Home, Country Music Country, The Beekeeper's Daughter, Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected, In The Bear's House | |
Catherine Hunter | 1957 | |||
Maureen Hunter | 1948 | |||
Mervyn Huston | 1912 | 2001 | humorist | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes |
Nancy Huston | 1953 | novelist, translator | ||
Linda Hutcheon | 1947 | critic, academic | The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation. | |
Hazel Hutchins | ||||
Chris Hutchinson | 1972 | poet, novelist, academic | Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames | |
Bruce Hutchison | 1901 | 1992 | ||
Céline Huyghebaert | novelist | Le drap blanc | ||
Joel Thomas Hynes | 1976 | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt , Right Away Monday | |
Maureen Hynes | poet | Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ameer Idreis | 1999 | novelist | The Ewald Series | |
Michael Ignatieff | 1947 | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging | |
George K. Ilsley | 1958 | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug | |
Neamat Imam | 1971 | novelist | The Black Coat | |
Susan Ioannou | 1944 | poet | Clarity Between Clouds | |
Anosh Irani | 1974 | novelist | The Song of Kahunsha | |
Ann Ireland | 1953 | 2018 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
Dionne Irving | novelist, short stories | Quint, The Islands | ||
Brian Thomas Isaac | 1950 | novelist | All the Quiet Places | |
Adel Iskandar | 1977 | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism | |
Doyali Islam | poet | Yusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft | ||
Frances Itani | 1942 | novelist | Deafening |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works Dragons of Nesbit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Donald Jack | 1924 | 2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
Suzanne Jacob | 1953 | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu | |
Heidi L. M. Jacobs | novelist | Molly of the Mall | ||
Michael Jacot | 1924 | 2006 | novelist, screenwriter | The Last Act of Martin Weston , The Last Butterfly |
Simone St. James | novelist | The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls | ||
Anna Brownell Jameson | 1794 | 1860 | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada | |
J. Robert Janes | 1932 | mysteries | ||
Mark Anthony Jarman | 1955 | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet | |
Melynda Jarratt | 1961 | non-fiction, historian literature | Voices of the Left Behind, War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved, Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides, Letters From Beauly | |
Claude Jasmin | 1930 | 2021 | novelist, screenwriter, short stories | Éthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal |
Michel Jean | novelist, journalist | Kukum, Atuk | ||
François Jeanneret | 1890 | 1967 | historian | |
E. A. Jenns | 1860 | 1930 | poet | Evening to Morning, and Other Poems |
Paulette Jiles | 1943 | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women | |
Gilles Jobidon | 1950 | novelist | La Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé | |
Marthe Jocelyn | 1956 | children's/young adult literature | Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series | |
K. V. Johansen | 1968 | fantasy, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus | |
Jessica Johns | novelist, short stories | Bad Cree | ||
Linda Johns | 1945 | non-fiction | Sharing a Robin's Life | |
E. Pauline Johnson | 1861 | 1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
Wentworth M. Johnson | 1939 | 2014 | science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction | Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series |
Aviaq Johnston | 1992/1993 | children's/young adult literature | Those Who Run in the Sky | |
Julie Johnston | children's/young adult literature | Adam and Eve and Pinch Me | ||
Wayne Johnston | 1958 | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams , Baltimore's Mansion | |
Sean Johnston | 1966 | novelist, short stories, poet | A Day Does Not Go By | |
Andy Jones | 1948 | playwright, screenwriter | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood | |
Alice Jones | 1853 | 1933 | novelist, essayist | Gabriel Praed's Castle |
D. G. Jones | 1929 | 2016 | poet, translator | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth |
Scott Jones | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You | ||
Terry Jordan | short stories | It's a Hard Cow | ||
Eve Joseph | 1953 | poet | The Startled Heart, Quarrels |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Kaan | fiction | The Water Beetles | ||
Elaine Kalman Naves | 1947 | non-fiction | Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story | |
Surjeet Kalsey | poet, drama, short stories, translator | FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart | ||
Smaro Kamboureli | ||||
Alan Kane | 1954 | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | ||
Donna Kane | poet | Orrery | ||
Adeena Karasick | 1965 | poet | This Poem | |
Ibi Kaslik | 1973 | novelist | Skinny , The Angel Riots | |
Welwyn Wilton Katz | 1948 | |||
Aristote Kavungu | 1962 | fiction, poetry | Un train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi | |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 1954 | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry , Tigana , A Song for Arbonne , The Lions of Al-Rassan | |
Greg Kearney | short stories, drama | Mommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun | ||
Lionel Kearns | 1937 | fiction, essays, digital-word-art | Birth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences | |
Diane Keating | poet | No Birds or Flowers | ||
Julie Keith | short stories | The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There | ||
Thomas P. Kelley | 1910 | 1982 | pulp, true crime | The Black Donnellys |
Kaie Kellough | 1975 | poet, novelist, short stories | Magnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads | |
Cathal Kelly | sportswriter, memoirist | Boy Wonders | ||
M. T. Kelly | 1946 | novelist | A Dream Like Mine | |
Sean Kelly | 1940 | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon | |
Olivier Kemeid | 1975 | playwright | L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés | |
Oonya Kempadoo | novelist | Naniki | ||
Howard Angus Kennedy | 1861 | 1938 | Historian, journalist | The Northwest Rebellion |
Michael Kenyon | novelist, short stories, poet | The Beautiful Children, Kleinberg | ||
Conor Kerr | 1988 | novelist, poet | Avenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers | |
Susan Kerslake | 1943 | novelist, short stories | Middlewatch, The Book of Fears | |
Joseph Kertes | 1951 | novelist, journalist | Winter Tulips, Gratitude | |
Craig Kielburger | 1982 | Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur | Free the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From A Street Kid | |
Marc Kielburger | 1977 | Canadian human rights activist, author, social entrepreneur | Me To We: Finding Meaning In A Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter | |
William Kilbourn | 1926 | 1995 | historian | The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion |
Crawford Kilian | 1941 | The Last Vikings | ||
Crad Kilodney | 1948 | 2014 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
Deborah Kimmett | playwright, humorist | Miracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy | ||
Basil King | 1859 | 1928 | novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association | The Inner Shrine (1909) |
Thomas King | 1943 | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water | |
Wesley King | 1987 | novelist, fiction | OCDaniel, The Wizenard Series | |
Mark Kingwell | 1963 | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium | |
W.P. Kinsella | 1935 | 2016 | novelist, short stories | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
William Kirby | 1817 | 1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
Barbara Klar | 1966 | poet | The Night You Called Me a Shadow | |
Sarah Klassen | 1932 | novelist, poet | Journey to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs | |
A. M. Klein | 1909 | 1972 | novelist, poet | The Second Scroll |
Joshua Knelman | creative non-fiction | Hot Art | ||
Chelene Knight | poet, creative non-fiction | Dear Current Occupant | ||
Raymond Knister | 1899 | 1932 | Grapes (2006) | |
Alexander Knox | 1907 | 1995 | actor, novelist | Night Of The White Bear |
Tamai Kobayashi | 1965 | short stories, novelist | Prairie Ostrich | |
Eric Koch | 1919 | 2018 | novelist | Premonitions: A novel |
Joy Kogawa | 1935 | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka | |
Miodrag Kojadinović | 1961 | short story writer, poet | Érotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies | |
Sergio Kokis | 1944 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac | |
Pamela Korgemagi | novelist | The Hunter and the Old Woman | ||
Gordon Korman | 1963 | children's, young adult literature | This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall | |
Myrna Kostash | 1944 | Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe | ||
Shane Koyczan | 1976 | Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media) | ||
Greg Kramer | 1961 | 2013 | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally |
Philip Kreiner | 1950 | novelist, short stories | People Like Us in a Place Like This | |
Henry Kreisel | 1922 | 1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
Aaron Kreuter | poet, short stories | You and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome | ||
John Krizanc | 1956 | playwright | Tamara | |
Robert Kroetsch | 1927 | 2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
Daniel Krolik | 1977 | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay | |
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | 1965 | novelist, short stories | Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things | |
Janice Kulyk Keefer | 1952 | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library | |
J. D. Kurtness | fiction | De vengeance | ||
Michael Kusugak | 1948 | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog | |
Lydia Kwa | 1959 | fiction, poet | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sonnet L'Abbé | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe | ||
Carole Labarre | 1966 | novelist | L'Or des mélèzes | |
Richard Labonté | 1949 | critic, anthologist | First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series | |
Rosa Labordé | playwright | Léo | ||
Marie-Sissi Labrèche | 1969 | screenwriter, novelist | Borderline | |
Marie-Ève Lacasse | 1982 | novelist | Autobiographie de l'étranger | |
Edward A. Lacey | 1988 | 1995 | poet | The Forms of Life |
Ben Ladouceur | 1987 | poet | Otter | |
Chloé LaDuchesse | poet | Exosquelette | ||
Steven Laffoley | 1965 | non-fiction, novelist | Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo | |
Marie-Pier Lafontaine | novelist | Chienne | ||
Larissa Lai | 1967 | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand | |
Angélique Lalonde | short stories | Glorious Frazzled Beings | ||
Kama La Mackerel | poet | ZOM-FAM | ||
Vincent Lam | 1974 | medicine, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures , The Headmaster's Wager | |
Tsering Yangzom Lama | novelist | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | ||
Guillaume Lambert | 1984 | novelist, screenwriter | Satyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara | |
Kevin Lambert | 1992 | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval | |
Gerald Lampert | 1920s | 1978 | novelist, poet | Tangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus |
Tim Lander | 1938 | poet | Street Heart Poems | |
Patrick Lane | 1939 | 2019 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
André Langevin | 1927 | 2009 | novelist, playwright, journalist | Évadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc |
Marisa Lankester | 1963 | writer | Dangerous Odds | |
Shari Lapena | 1960 | novelist | Happiness Economics, The Couple Next Door | |
Annette Lapointe | 1978 | novelist | Stolen | |
Gilbert La Rocque | 1943 | 1984 | novelist, biographer | Les masques |
Hubert LaRue | 1833 | 1881 | writer, physician, scientist | Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean |
Stéphane Larue | 1983 | novelist | Le Plongeur | |
Evelyn Lau | 1971 | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid | |
Margaret Laurence | 1926 | 1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel , The Diviners |
Agnes C. Laut | 1871 | 1936 | journalist, novelist, historian, social worker | Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier |
Marie-Renée Lavoie | 1974 | novelist | La petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate | |
Karen Lawrence | 1951 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Life of Helen Alone | |
R.D. Lawrence | 1921 | 2003 | naturalist, nature writer | Cry Wild |
Mary Lawson | 1946 | novelist | Crow Lake | |
Irving Layton | 1912 | 2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
Jack Layton | 1950 | 2011 | non-fiction | Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis |
Stephen Leacock | 1869 | 1944 | humorist | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
Georgette LeBlanc | 1977 | poet, translator | Alma, Prudent | |
Gérald Leblanc | 1945 | 2005 | poet | Complaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra |
Perrine Leblanc | 1980 | novelist | L'homme blanc, Malabourg | |
D. M. LeBourdais | 1887 | 1964 | journalist, historian | Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution |
Isabel LeBourdais | 1909 | 2003 | journalist | The Trial of Steven Truscott |
Félix Leclerc | 1914 | 1988 | writer, poet, singer-songwriter | Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers |
Dennis Lee | 1939 | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies | |
John Alan Lee | 1933 | 2013 | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex |
JJ Lee | non-fiction | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit | ||
Jen Sookfong Lee | novelist | The End of East | ||
John B. Lee | 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb | |
Nancy Lee | 1970 | short stories | Dead Girls | |
Ronald Lee | 1934 | 2020 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
Sky Lee | 1952 | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe | |
Mathyas Lefebure | novelist | D'où viens tu, berger? | ||
Lily Alice Lefevre | 1854 | 1938 | poet | The Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By The Sea |
Mark Leiren-Young | 1962 | playwright, novelist | Shylock (play) , The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen | |
Roger Lemelin | 1919 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
Matt Lennox | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead | |
John Lent | 1948 | 2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
Don LePan | 1954 | novelist | Animals: A Novel | |
Douglas LePan | 1914 | 1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology" |
Catherine Leroux | 1979 | novelist, short stories | Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria | |
Pierre Leroux | 1958 | novelist | Le Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur | |
Alex Leslie | poet, short stories | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You | ||
Mark Leslie | 1969 | novelist, non-fiction, short stories | Haunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York | |
Sophie Létourneau | 1980 | novelist | Chasse à l'homme | |
Carrianne Leung | novelist, short stories | The Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You | ||
J. R. (Roger) Léveillé | 1945 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Setting Lake Sun | |
Yves Lever | 1942 | 2020 | film critic, historian, biographer | Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec |
Lilian Leveridge | 1879 | 1953 | poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles | "Over the Hills of Home" |
Norman Levine | 1923 | 2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
Shar Levine | 1953 | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope | |
Naomi K. Lewis | 1976 | novelist, non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers | |
Wyndham Lewis | 1882 | 1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
Katherine Leyton | poet | All the Gold Hurts My Mouth | ||
T. Liem | poet | Obits | ||
Hillar Liitoja | playwright | The Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville | ||
Thea Lim | 1981 | novelist | An Ocean of Minutes | |
Michael Lista | 1983 | poet | Bloom | |
Ashley Little | 1983 | children's, young adult literature | The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang | |
Jean Little | 1932 | 2020 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
Dorothy Livesay | 1909 | 1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
Billie Livingston | 1965 | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes | |
Douglas Lochhead | 1922 | 2011 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
Lynette Loeppky | memoirist | Cease | ||
John Lorinc | journalist | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias | ||
Kevin Loring | 1974 | playwright | Where the Blood Mixes | |
Jennifer LoveGrove | poet, novelist | Watch How We Walk | ||
Malcolm Lowry | 1909 | 1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
Pat Lowther | 1935 | 1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
Canisia Lubrin | poet, novelist | The Dyzgraphxst, Code Noir | ||
Jack Ludwig | 1922 | 2018 | novelist, short stories, sportswriter | Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration |
Sidura Ludwig | novelist, short stories | Holding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected | ||
Pearl Luke | 1958 | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee | |
Janet Lunn | 1928 | 2017 | children's literature | The Root Cellar , The Hollow Tree |
Laura Lush | 1959 | poet, short story writer | Hometown, Going to the Zoo | |
Richard Lush | 1934 | poet | A Manual for Lying Down | |
Michael Lynch | 1944 | 1991 | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends |
Annabel Lyon | 1971 | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean | |
Eswyn Lyster | 1923 | 2009 | war brides, war | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rozena Maart | 1962 | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle | |
Patrick MacAdam | 1934 | 2015 | Gold Medal Misfits | |
Annick MacAskill | poet | Shadow Blight | ||
Ann-Marie MacDonald | 1958 | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees , Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | |
Bryden MacDonald | 1960 | playwright | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath | |
D. R. MacDonald | 1939 | novelist, short stories | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart | |
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald | 1864 | 1922 | poet, children's literature, short stories, essays | |
Hugh MacDonald | 1945 | This is a Love Song | ||
Jake MacDonald | 1949 | 2020 | The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country | |
Janice MacDonald | 1959 | novelist, children's literature, short stories | Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out | |
Maggie MacDonald | 1979 | |||
Wilson MacDonald | 1880 | 1967 | poet | Song of the Prairie Land |
Lee MacDougall | playwright | High Life | ||
Gwendolyn MacEwen | 1941 | 1987 | poet, novelist | Julian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams |
Mary Esther MacGregor | 1872 | 1961 | novelist, non-fiction | A Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley. |
Roy MacGregor | 1948 | journalist, non-fiction | Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey | |
Agnes Maule Machar | 1837 | 1927 | ||
Linden MacIntyre | 1943 | novelist, journalist | The Bishop's Man , Causeway | |
Matthew MacKenzie | playwright | Bears, The First Métis Man of Odesa | ||
Rory Maclean | 1954 | |||
Hugh MacLennan | 1907 | 1990 | novelist, essayist | Two Solitudes , Barometer Rising |
Matt MacLennan | ||||
Michael MacLennan | 1968 | |||
Alexander MacLeod | 1972 | short stories | Light Lifting | |
Alison MacLeod | fiction | Unexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts | ||
Alistair MacLeod | 1936 | 2014 | novelist, short stories | No Great Mischief |
Elizabeth Macleod | biographer | |||
Joan MacLeod | 1954 | playwright | Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl | |
Rick Maddocks | 1970 | short stories | Sputnik Diner | |
Adriana Maggs | screenwriter | Grown Up Movie Star | ||
Randall Maggs | poet | Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems | ||
Michèle Magny | 1944 | playwright | Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel | |
Anand Mahadevan | 1979 | novelist | The Strike | |
Rabindranath Maharaj | 1955 | novelist, short stories | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice | |
Louise Maheux-Forcier | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, radio and television drama | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
Keith Maillard | 1942 | novelist, poet | Twin Studies,Difficulty at the Beginning quartet, The Clarinet Polka,Gloria, Dementia Americana,Hazard Zones,Light in the Company of Women,Motet,Two Strand River | |
Antonine Maillet | 1929 | novelist, playwright | La Sagouine , Pélagie-la-Charrette | |
André Major | 1942 | poet, novelist | Les Rescapés | |
Kevin Major | 1949 | |||
Pasha Malla | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method | ||
Donato Mancini | poet | Ligature, Æthel, Same Diff | ||
Eli Mandel | 1922 | 1992 | poet | Trio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance |
Miriam Mandel | 1930 | 1982 | poet | Lions at Her Face, Station 14 |
Avner Mandelman | novelist, finance | The Debba | ||
David Manicom | 1960 | poet, novelist | ||
Lee Maracle | 1950 | 2021 | poet, novelist | |
Blaine Marchand | 1949 | poet, non-fiction, novelist | A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives | |
Jovette Marchessault | 1938 | 2012 | novelist, playwright | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien |
Hubert Marcoux | 1941 | 2009 | non-fiction, adventure travel | Around the World in 18 Years |
Michèle Marineau | 1955 | novelist, translator | La Route de Chlifa | |
Robert Marinier | 1954 | playwright, television | L'Insomnie, Météo+ , Les Bleus de Ramville | |
Daphne Marlatt | 1942 | |||
Paul Marlowe | novelist, short stories | Sporeville | ||
John Marlyn | 1912 | 1985 | ||
Nicole Markotic | 1962 | |||
Tom Marshall | 1938 | 1993 | poet, novelist, critic | Adele at the End of the Day |
Yolanda T. Marshall | 1978 | children's literature | My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans | |
Émile Martel | 1941 | poet, short stories | Pour orchestre et poète seul | |
Yann Martel | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Life of Pi , The High Mountains of Portugal | |
Camille Martin | 1956 | poet, collage artist | Sonnets, Looms | |
Claire Martin | 1914 | 2014 | La joue droite | |
Paul Nicholas Mason | 1958 | novelist, playwright | Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave | |
Vincent Massey | 1887 | 1967 | historian | On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march |
Elan Mastai | screenwriter, novelist | The F Word , All Our Wrong Todays | ||
Carol Matas | 1949 | novelist | After the War, Daniel's Story | |
Shirlee Smith Matheson | 1943 | |||
Suzette Mayr | 1967 | novelist | Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter | |
John Bentley Mays | 1941 | 2016 | journalist, novelist, memoirist | In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood |
Susan Mayse | 1948 | creative non-fiction | Awen, Ginger , Merlin's Web | |
Julie Mazzieri | 1975 | novelist | Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco | |
Melchior Mbonimpa | 1955 | novelist, non-fiction | Les morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel | |
Tawiah M'carthy | playwright | Obaaberima | ||
Colin McAdam | novelist | Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth | ||
Steve McCaffery | 1947 | |||
Julia McCarthy | poet | Return from Erebus, All the Names Between | ||
Nellie McClung | 1873 | 1951 | journalist | |
Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac) | poet, academic | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers | ||
Derek McCormack | 1969 | novelist, short stories | Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly | |
Eric McCormack | 1938 | novelist | The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women | |
Edward McCourt | 1907 | 1972 | novelist, non-fiction | Music at the Close |
John McCrae | 1872 | 1918 | poet | "In Flanders' Fields" |
Kathleen McCracken | 1960 | poet | Blue Light, Bay and College | |
Derek McCulloch | 1964 | graphic novelist, children's literature | Stagger Lee | |
Thomas McCulloch | 1776 | 1843 | humourist | The Stepsure Letters |
Colin McDougall | 1917 | 1984 | novelist | Execution |
Franklin D. McDowell | 1888 | 1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
Jaimie McEvoy | 1965 | historian | ||
David McFadden | 1940 | 2018 | poet, novelist, short stories | The Art of Darkness, What's the Score? |
Donna McFarlane | 1958 | novelist | Division of Surgery | |
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon) | 1902 | 1977 | children's literature | The Hardy Boys |
Sheryl McFarlane | 1954 | children's literature, young adult fiction | Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog | |
Oonah McFee | 1916 | 2006 | novels, short stories | Sandbars |
Peter McGehee | 1955 | 1991 | novels, short stories | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart |
Robin McGrath | 1949 | novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction | Escaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt | |
Jean McIlwraith | 1858 | 1938 | novelist, biographer | |
Edgar McInnis | 1899 | 1973 | poet, historian | The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War |
James McIntyre | 1827 | 1906 | poet | |
Ami McKay | 1968 | The Birth House | ||
Don McKay | 1942 | poet, essayist | ||
Leo McKay, Jr. | 1964 | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six , Like This | |
Bruce Alistair McKelvie | 1889 | 1960 | journalist, historian | Magic, Murder and Mystery |
Ian McLachlan | novelist, playwright | The Seventh Hexagram | ||
Stuart McLean | 1948 | 2017 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | academic | |
Susan McMaster | 1950 | |||
Amber McMillan | writer | We Can't Ever Do This Again, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island, The Running Trees, This Is a Stickup | ||
Sylvia McNicoll | 1954 | |||
Florence McNeil | 1932 | 2013 | poet, playwright | Overlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me |
Marie McPhedran | 1904 | 1974 | novelist | Cargoes on the Great Lakes |
Christopher Meades | 1974 | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary | |
John Melady | ||||
Lee Mellor | 1982 | true crime, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder | |
Judith Merril | 1923 | 1997 | science fiction, editor | |
Edmund Metatawabin | 1948 | memoirist | Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History | |
John Metcalf | 1938 | |||
Stéfani Meunier | 1971 | novelist, short stories | Une carte postale de l'océan | |
Sarah Mian | poet, novelist, short stories | When the Saints | ||
Shayne Michael | poet | Fif et sauvage | ||
Anne Michaels | 1958 | poet, novelist | Fugitive Pieces | |
Sean Michaels | 1982 | novelist, music critic | Us Conductors | |
Andrée A. Michaud | 1957 | novelist, playwright | Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée | |
Marianne Micros | 1943 | short stories, poet | Eye | |
Jesse Edgar Middleton | 1872 | 1960 | journalist, historian, songwriter | Huron Carol , Toronto's 100 Years |
Stevie Mikayne | mystery novelist, children's literature | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts | ||
Roy Miki | 1942 | |||
Ron Miksha | 1954 | Bad Beekeeping | ||
Eleanor Millard | 1942 | novelist, memoirist, short stories | River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow | |
John Miller | 1968 | novelist | The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath | |
Orlo Miller | 1911 | 1993 | historian, novelist | |
Kenneth G. Mills | 1923 | 2004 | poet | |
Christine Miscione | novelist, short stories | Auxiliary Skins, Carafola | ||
Christian Mistral | 1964 | novelist, poet, songwriter | Vamp | |
Rohinton Mistry | 1952 | novelist | Such a Long Journey , A Fine Balance | |
Jared Mitchell | 1955 | |||
John Wendell Mitchell | 1882 | 1951 | novelist | The Yellow Briar |
W. O. Mitchell | 1914 | 1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
Rick Mofina | 1959 | mystery, thriller | Blood of Others | |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874 | 1942 | novelist, children's literature | Anne of Green Gables |
Susanna Moodie | 1803 | 1885 | memoirist | Roughing it in the Bush |
Brian Moore | 1921 | 1999 | Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey | |
Christopher G. Moore | 1952 | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series | |
Lisa Moore | 1964 | short stories, novelist | ||
Jeffrey Moore | novelist | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club | ||
Shani Mootoo | 1958 | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night | |
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon | poet | |||
Pierre Morency | 1942 | poet, playwright | ||
Bernice Morgan | 1935 | |||
Dwayne Morgan | 1974 | |||
Grace Jones Morgan | 1884 | 1977 | pulp | |
Jeffrey Morgan | rock critic, biographer, graphic novelist, poet | The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper , The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story, The Brides of Mister X | ||
Tara Lee Morin | poet, memoirist | As I Remember It | ||
Guillaume Morissette | 1983 | novelist | ||
Kim Moritsugu | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure | ||
Donna Morrissey | 1956 | |||
Kim Morrissey | ||||
Garry Thomas Morse | poet, novelist | Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour | ||
Colin Morton | 1948 | |||
Marie Moser | 1948 | novelist, short stories | Counterpoint | |
Daniel David Moses | 1952 | 2020 | poet and playwright | |
Tara Moss | 1973 | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess | |
Erín Moure | 1955 | poet | ||
Farley Mowat | 1921 | 2014 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
Claire Mulligan | novelist, short stories | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | ||
Alice Munro | 1931 | 2024 | short stories | The Progress of Love , Lives of Girls and Women , The Love of a Good Woman |
Jim Munroe | 1945 | science fiction | Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico | |
Robert Munsch | 1945 | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess | |
Janet Munsil | playwright | Be Still, That Elusive Spark | ||
Sachiko Murakami | 1980 | poet | The Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render | |
George Murray | 1971 | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms | |
Morgan Murray | novelist | Dirty Birds | ||
Sheila Murray | novelist, short stories | Finding Edward | ||
John Murrell | 1945 | 2019 | playwright | |
Susan Musgrave | 1951 | poet, novelist | The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids | |
Maria Mutch | memoirist, short stories | Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours | ||
Téa Mutonji | short stories | Shut Up You're Pretty |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ira Nadel | 1943 | biography, literary criticism | Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text, David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre, Tom Stoppard: A Life | |
Noor Naga | novelist | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | ||
Hasan Namir | 1987 | novelist | God in Pink | |
Shenaaz Nanji | 1954 | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions | |
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Sanaaq |
Akhtar Naraghi | novelist, poet | The Big Green House | ||
André Narbonne | novelist, poet, short stories | Twelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia | ||
Angela Narth | 1946 | children's literature, non-fiction | Simon With Two Left Feet | |
Jim Nason | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow | ||
Riel Nason | young adult novelist | The Town That Drowned | ||
Dimitri Nasrallah | 1977 | novelist | Blackbodying, Hotline | |
Michael Nathanson | playwright | Talk | ||
Blaise Ndala | novelist | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov | ||
Jen Neale | novelist | Land Mammals and Sea Creatures | ||
Émile Nelligan | 1879 | 1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
Max Nemni | political scientist, biographer | Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed | ||
Monique Nemni | 1936 | linguist, biographer | Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed | |
Pierre Nepveu | 1946 | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques | |
Sylvain Neuvel | 1973 | science fiction | Sleeping Giants | |
John Newlove | 1938 | 2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
Peter C. Newman | 1929 | journalist | The Canadian Establishment | |
B. P. Nichol | 1944 | 1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
Cecily Nicholson | poet | From the Poplars, Wayside Sang | ||
Hal Niedzviecki | 1971 | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too | |
Susin Nielsen | children's and young adult literature | The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen | ||
Frederick Niven | 1878 | 1944 | novelist | The Flying Years |
Fraser Nixon | crime novelist | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head | ||
Francine Noël | 1945 | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie | |
Henri Nouwen | 1932 | 1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
Mary Novik | 1945 | novelist | Conceit | |
Alden Nowlan | 1933 | 1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Keith Oatley | 1939 | novelist, psychology, scholar | The Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions | |
Sheldon Oberman | 1949 | 2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
Theodore Odrach | 1912 | 1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories |
Rohan O'Grady | 1922 | 2014 | novelist | Let's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal |
Howard O'Hagan | 1902 | 1982 | novelist, short stories | Tay John |
Alix Ohlin | novelist, short stories | Inside, Signs and Wonders | ||
Alexandra Oliver | 1970 | poet | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway | |
Tolu Oloruntoba | poet | The Junta of Happenstance | ||
Bryan Lee O'Malley | 1979 | graphic novelist | Scott Pilgrim | |
Heather O'Neill | 1973 | novelist | Lullabies for Little Criminals | |
Michael Ondaatje | 1943 | novelist, poet | The English Patient , In the Skin of a Lion , Anil's Ghost | |
Christopher Ondaatje | 1933 | writer, publisher | The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867–1967, The Man-eater of Punanai — a Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton | |
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia | novelist | The Son of the House | ||
Kenneth Oppel | 1967 | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga | |
Stephen Osborne | 1947 | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World | |
Gabriel Osson | novelist, poet, memoirist | Le jour se lèvera | ||
Martha Ostenso | 1900 | 1963 | novelist, screenwriter | Wild Geese |
Lawrence O'Toole | film critic, memoirist | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home | ||
Fernand Ouellette | 1930 | poet, novelist | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures | |
Susan Ouriou | 1955 | novelist, short stories, translator | Damselfish | |
James Macdonald Oxley | 1855 | 1907 | novelist (juvenile) |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Frank L. Packard | 1877 | 1942 | Novelist | The Adventures of Jimmie Dale |
Susan Paddon | poet | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | ||
P. K. Page | 1916 | 2010 | poet | |
Basil Papademos | 1957 | erotica | Mount Royal | |
Aaron Paquette | 1974 | young adult literature, fantasy | Lightfinder | |
Jivesh Parasram | playwright | Take d Milk, Nah? | ||
Arleen Paré | 1946 | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains | |
Erna Paris | literary non-fiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History | ||
Fawn Parker | novelist, poet, short stories | What We Both Know | ||
Gilbert Parker | 1862 | 1932 | novelist | The Seats of the Mighty , The Lane that Had No Turning |
Amy Parkinson | 1855 | 1938 | poet | Love Through All, Best |
Jocelyn Parr | fiction | Uncertain Weights and Measures | ||
Amanda Parris | playwright | Other Side of the Game | ||
Markoosie Patsauq | 1942 | 2020 | fiction | Harpoon of the Hunter |
Kevin Patterson | 1964 | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between | |
Raymond M. Patterson | 1898 | 1984 | ||
Philip Kevin Paul | poet | Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger | ||
Loghan Paylor | novelist, short stories | The Cure for Drowning | ||
Joan Payzant | 1925 | 2013 | columnist, historical, children's fiction | Who's a Scaredy-Cat!: A Story of the Halifax Explosion |
Kit Pearson | 1947 | children's literature, young adult literature | Awake and Dreaming, The Sky is Falling, A Handful of Time | |
Soraya Peerbaye | poet, dramatist | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell | ||
Francine Pelletier | 1959 | science fiction, young adult literature | ||
Fred Pellerin | 1976 | short stories | ||
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | 1971 | children's, memoirist, academic | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant | |
Louise Penny | 1958 | mysteries | Still Life, A Fatal Grace , The Cruelest Month | |
H. R. Percy | 1920 | 1997 | novelist, short stories | Painted Ladies |
Susan Perly | novelist, short stories | Love Street, Death Valley | ||
Amanda Peters | novelist, short stories | The Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon | ||
Bradley Peters | poet | Sonnets from a Cell | ||
Jordan Peterson | 1962 | applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar | Maps of Meaning , 12 Rules for Life , Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five | |
Len Peterson | 1917 | 2008 | ||
Zoey Leigh Peterson | novelist | Next Year, for Sure | ||
Geneviève Pettersen | 1982 | novelist, blogger | La déesse des mouches à feu | |
Josephine Phelan | 1905 | 1979 | History, biography | The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee |
Edward O. Phillips | 1931 | 2020 | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday |
Wendy Phillips | children's literature | Fishtailing | ||
Lorne Pierce | 1890 | 1961 | literary critic | |
Joseph Jomo Pierre | playwright | Shakespeare's Nigga | ||
Emmanuelle Pierrot | 1994 | novelist | La version qui n'intéresse personne | |
Leslie Hall Pinder | 1948 | 2021 | fiction | On Double Tracks |
Sarah Pinder | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place | ||
William Ping | fiction | Hollow Bamboo | ||
Joseph Pivato | 1946 | literary critic, editor | Echo: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing | |
Hazel Jane Plante | novelist | Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City | ||
Michel Pleau | 1964 | poet | La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit | |
Casey Plett | 1987 | short stories, novelist | A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of A Woman | |
Jacques Poitras | journalist, non-fiction | Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future | ||
Craig Poile | poet | First Crack, True Concessions | ||
Daniel Poliquin | 1953 | |||
Sharon Pollock | 1936 | 2021 | ||
Michael Poole | 1936 | 2010 | non-fiction | Romancing Mary Jane |
Helen Fogwill Porter | 1930 | non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright | Below the Bridge, Finishing School | |
Michelle Porter | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Inquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story | ||
Liza Potvin | 1958 | non-fiction | White Lies (for my mother) | |
Gabrielle Poulin | 1929 | 2015 | novelist, poet | La Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison |
Jacques Poulin | 1937 | novelist | Volkswagen Blues | |
Christine Pountney | 1971 | novelist | Last Chance Texaco | |
Joël Pourbaix | 1958 | poet | Le mal du pays est un art oublié | |
Steve Poutré | 1979 | novelist | Lait cru | |
B.W. Powe | 1955 | philosopher | A Canada of Light | |
Kerry Lee Powell | poet, short stories | The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush | ||
Craig Francis Power | novelist | Blood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love | ||
Paul David Power | playwright | Crippled | ||
E. J. Pratt | 1883 | 1964 | poet | |
Steven Price | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness | ||
Robert Priest | 1951 | poet | ||
Alex Pugsley | 1963 | novels, short stories, screenwriter | Dirty Singles , Aubrey McKee | |
Kate Pullinger | 1961 | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing | |
Al Purdy | 1918 | 2000 | poet | |
Andrew Pyper | 1968 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | ||
Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | ||
Darlene Quaife | 1948 | novelist | Bone Bird | |
Andy Quan | 1969 | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions | |
Paul Quarrington | 1953 | 2010 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music , King Leary |
Meredith Quartermain | 1950 | poet, fiction | Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet | |
Marion Quednau | 1952 | novelist, poet, short stories, children's literature | The Butterfly Chair, Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road | |
Sina Queyras | 1963 | poet, novelist | Lemon Hound, MxT, Autobiography of Childhood | |
Christine Quintana | playwright | Selfie | ||
Pascale Quiviger | 1969 | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Rachman | 1974 | novelist | The Imperfectionists | |
Thomas Head Raddall | 1903 | 1994 | novelist | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories |
Kenneth Radu | 1945 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance | |
Nasrin Rahimieh | Persian literature | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage | ||
Deepa Rajagopalan | short stories | Peacocks of Instagram | ||
Danny Ramadan | 1984 | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing | |
Menaka Raman-Wilms | journalist, novelist | The Rooftop Garden | ||
Gurcharan Rampuri | 1929 | 2018 | ||
Gord Rand | playwright | Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams | ||
Edeet Ravel | 1955 | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers | |
Angela Rawlings | 1978 | |||
Ben Rayner | music journalist | |||
Mark A. Rayner | ||||
James Reaney | 1926 | 2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark , Black Donnelly's |
Kelly Rebar | 1956 | playwright, screenwriter | Bordertown Café | |
Duke Redbird | 1939 | poet, academic, journalist | ||
Corey Redekop | novelist, short stories | Husk | ||
Michael Redhill | 1966 | novelist, short stories | Martin Sloane , Bellevue Square | |
Beatrice Redpath | 1886 | 1937 | poet, short stories | Drawn Shutters, White Lilac |
Roberta Rees | 1954 | novelist, poet, short stories | Eyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers | |
Iain Reid | 1980 | novelist, memoirist | The Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things | |
Gayla Reid | 1945 | novels, short stories | To Be There With You | |
Raziel Reid | 1990 | young adult novelist | When Everything Feels Like the Movies | |
Stephen Reid | 1950 | 2018 | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole |
Zalika Reid-Benta | short stories | Frying Plantain | ||
Kati Rekai | 1921 | 2010 | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece | |
Maria Reva | short stories | Good Citizens Need Not Fear | ||
Shane Rhodes | poet | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery | ||
François Ricard | 1947 | 2022 | biographer, essayist | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
Nino Ricci | 1959 | novelist | Lives of the Saints | |
Waubgeshig Rice | novelist, short stories | Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow | ||
David Adams Richards | 1950 | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows , Mercy Among the Children , Nights Below Station Street | |
Evelyn M. Richardson | 1902 | 1976 | novelist | Desired Haven |
Jael Richardson | memoirist, playwright | The Stone Thrower | ||
John Richardson | 1796 | 1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
Robin Richardson | poet | Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want | ||
Edward Riche | 1961 | novelist, screenwriter | Rare Birds | |
Daniel Richler | 1957 | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow | |
Emma Richler | 1961 | novelist, short stories | Sister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs | |
Jacob Richler | journalist | |||
Mordecai Richler | 1931 | 2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , Joshua Then and Now , Barney's Version |
Nancy Richler | 1957 | 2018 | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
Noah Richler | journalist | This Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War | ||
Emily Riddle | poet | The Big Melt | ||
Tanis Rideout | poet, novelist | Above All Things | ||
Sandra Ridley | poet | Silvija, Vixen | ||
T. F. Rigelhof | 1944 | novelist, memoirist, literary critic | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress | |
Sharon Riis | 1947 | 2016 | novelist, short stories, screenwriter | The True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah |
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton) | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Thirty Acres |
Charles Ritchie | 1906 | 1995 | diarist | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years |
Thomas Beattie Roberton | 1879 | 1936 | journalist, critic | TBR: Newspaper Pieces |
Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860 | 1943 | poet, novelist | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg |
Ken Roberts | 1946 | |||
Paul William Roberts | 1950 | 2019 | ||
Bill Robertson | screenwriter | The Events Leading Up to My Death , Apartment Hunting | ||
Lisa Robertson | 1961 | poet | ||
Margaret Murray Robertson | 1823 | 1897 | novelist | |
John Daniel Robins | 1884 | 1952 | humorist | The Incomplete Anglers |
Eden Robinson | 1968 | novelist | Monkey Beach , Son of a Trickster | |
J. Jill Robinson | 1955 | short stories, creative non-fiction | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire | |
Peter Robinson | 1950 | mystery | ||
Marc Robitaille | novels, sports history, film | Histoires d'hiver , Un été sans point ni coup sûr , Il était une fois les Expos | ||
Harriet A. Roche | 1835 | 1921 | pioneer, traveler | On Trek in the Transvaal |
Ajmer Rode | poet, playwright, translator | |||
Spider Robinson | 1948 | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon | |
Grace Dean Rogers | 1863 | 1958 | Novelist, historian | Stories of the Land of Evangeline |
Ian Rogers | 1976 | supernatural and horror fiction | Every House Is Haunted | |
Linda Rogers | 1944 | |||
Richard Rohmer | 1924 | |||
Mathieu Rolland | 1989 | novelist | Souvenir de Night, De grandes personnes | |
Leon Rooke | 1934 | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog , A Bolt of White Cloth | |
Patrick Roscoe | 1967 | novelist, short stories | Birthmarks, God's Peculiar Care | |
Rose Reisman | nutritiology writer | Manhattan's Dessert Scene: New York City's Top Dessert Spots Reveal Their Secret Recipes | ||
Rachel Rose | 1970 | poet | Song and Spectacle | |
Simon Rose | 1961 | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy | |
Rebecca Rosenblum | 1978 | short stories | Once | |
Leonard Rosmarin | novelist | |||
Sinclair Ross | 1908 | 1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial |
Stuart Ross | 1959 | poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent | |
Nancy-Gay Rotstein | poet, novelist | |||
Jeffrey Round | poet, mysteries | The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain | ||
Andrea Routley | short stories | Jane and the Whales | ||
André Roy | 1944 | poet, critic | Action writing | |
Matthew J. Royal | 1863 | 1900 | novelist and playwright | The Isle of the Virgins: A Romance, Aunt Hannah |
Gabrielle Roy | 1909 | 1983 | novelist | The Tin Flute , Children of My Heart |
Holley Rubinsky | 1943 | 2015 | novelist, short stories | At First I Hope For Rescue, Rapid Transits and Other Stores, Beyond This Point |
Jane Rule | 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Desert of the Heart |
Alexei Maxim Russell | 1976 | novelist | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective | |
Harley Rustad | 1985 | non-fiction author, journalist | Big Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death | |
Elizabeth Ruth | 1968 | novelist | Smoke | |
Naben Ruthnum | novelist, non-fiction | Curry: Reading, Eating and Race, Find You in the Dark | ||
Garry Ryan | mysteries, historical fiction | The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, Malabarista, Blackbirds | ||
George Ryga | 1932 | 1987 | playwright and novelist | The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
Geoff Ryman | 1951 |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Michelle Sagara | 1963 | fantasy | ||
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | playwright | Gas Girls, A Man A Fish | ||
Rodney Saint-Éloi | poet | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé | ||
Kerri Sakamoto | 1960 | novelist | The Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts | |
Mark Sakamoto | 1977 | memoirist | Forgiveness | |
Trish Salah | poet | Wanting in Arabic | ||
Rebecca Salazar | poet | sulphurtongue | ||
G. Herbert Sallans | 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Little Man |
Rick Salutin | 1942 | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith | |
Laura G. Salverson | 1890 | 1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
Liselle Sambury | fantasy, young adult | Blood Like Magic | ||
Shelly Sanders | 1964 | novelist, journalist | The Rachel Trilogy | |
Susan Sanford Blades | novelist | Fake It So Real | ||
Robyn Sarah | 1949 | poet, short stories | Promise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me | |
Mairuth Sarsfield | 1925 | 2013 | novelist | No Crystal Stair |
Jocelyne Saucier | 1948 | novelist | Il pleuvait des oiseaux | |
John Ralston Saul | 1947 | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization | |
Gloria Sawai | 1932 | 2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
Robert J. Sawyer | 1960 | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax , Calculating God , Flashforward , Rollback | |
Arthur Scaife | 1855 | 1934 | short stories, novelist, poetry | Three Letters of Credit and Other Stories |
Dominique Scali | novelist | À la recherche de New Babylon | ||
Alan Scarfe | 1946 | novelist | The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit | |
Jacob Scheier | 1980 | poet | More to Keep Us Warm | |
Libby Scheier | 1946 | 2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
Diane Schoemperlen | 1954 | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion | |
Stephen Scobie | 1943 | poet | McAlmon's Chinese Opera | |
Anakana Schofield | 1971 | novelist | Malarky | |
Adam Lewis Schroeder | novelist, short stories | In the Fabled East | ||
Andreas Schroeder | 1946 | |||
Gregory Scofield | 1966 | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel | |
Chris Scott | 1945 | novelist | Antichthon, Jack | |
Duncan Campbell Scott | 1862 | 1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
Frank Scott | 1899 | 1985 | poet | |
Gail Scott | 1945 | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error | |
Jordan Scott | poet | Silt, blert, Night & Ox | ||
R.T.M. Scott | 1882 | 1966 | novelist | Secret Service Smith |
Richard Scrimger | children's writer, novelist | |||
Jasmine Sealy | novelist, short stories | The Island of Forgetting | ||
Djanet Sears | 1959 | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | |
Paul Seesequasis | novelist, journalist | Tobacco Wars, Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun | ||
Benjamin Sehene | 1959 | novelist, essayist, political writer | ||
Sarah Selecky | 1974 | short stories | This Cake Is for the Party | |
Bev Sellars | memoirist | They Called Me Number One | ||
Shyam Selvadurai | 1965 | novelist | Funny Boy , Cinnamon Gardens | |
Bruce Serafin | 2007 | creative non-fiction | Stardust | |
Robert W. Service | 1874 | 1958 | poet | The Cremation of Sam McGee , The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
Ernest Thompson Seton | 1860 | 1946 | ||
Mark Shainblum | 1963 | |||
Lionel Shapiro | 1908 | 1958 | novelist, journalist | The Sixth Of June, They Left The Back Door Open |
Leanne Shapton | 1973 | graphic novelist | Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry | |
Gaurav Sharma | 1992 | novelist, author | God of the Sullied , Gone are the Days , The Indian Story of an Author | |
Sarah Sheard | 1953 | |||
Sheung-King | novelist | You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. | ||
Murphy O. Shewchuk | 1943 | writer, photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails, Coquihalla Trips and Trails, Cariboo Trips and Trails | |
Francis Sherman | 1871 | 1926 | poet | |
Valerie Sherrard | 1957 | children's and young adult literature | The Glory Wind | |
Carol Shields | 1935 | 2003 | novelist, short stories | The Stone Diaries , Larry's Party |
Erin Shields | playwright | If We Were Birds | ||
Aki Shimazaki | 1954 | |||
Ann Shin | poet, novelist, filmmaker | The Last Exiles | ||
Adam Shortt | 1859 | 1931 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
Vivek Shraya | 1981 | short stories | God Loves Hair | |
Eric Siblin | journalist, music writer | The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece | ||
Maggie Siggins | 1942 | historian, biographies | Riel | |
Antanas Sileika | 1953 | novels, fiction, essays | Buying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller | |
Ana Siljak | historian | Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World | ||
Makeda Silvera | 1955 | The Heart Does Not Bend | ||
Louise Simard | 1950 | |||
Jessie Sime | 1868 | 1958 | Novelist | Our Little Life |
Bren Simmers | 1976 | poet | Night Gears | |
Merilyn Simonds | 1949 | creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror,The Paradise Project | |
Colin Simpson | ||||
Bardia Sinaee | poet | Intruder | ||
Andy Sinclair | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons | ||
Jaspreet Singh | 1969 | |||
Mark Sinnett | novelist, poet, short stories | The Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore | ||
George Sipos | memoirist, poet | The Geography of Arrival, Anything But the Moon | ||
Johanna Skibsrud | 1980 | novelist, poet | The Sentimentalists | |
Marsha Skrypuch | 1954 | young adult, children's fiction, narrative non-fiction | Making Bombs for Hitler, Stolen Child, Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War | |
Josef Skvorecky | 1924 | 2012 | novelist, essayist | The Engineer of Human Souls |
Joshua Slocum | 1844 | 1909 | ||
Carolyn Smart | 1952 | poet | Hooked | |
Elizabeth Smart | 1913 | 1986 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | |
Gwen Smid | 1979 | fiction, picture books | Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario | |
Jean Edward Smith | 1932 | 2019 | ||
Michael V. Smith | novelist | Cumberland | ||
Neil Smith | 1964 | short stories | Bang Crunch | |
Russell Smith | 1963 | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent | |
Carrie Snyder | short stories | Hair Hat, The Juliet Stories | ||
Mary Soderstrom | 1942 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond | |
Caro Soles | mystery, science fiction, fantasy, erotica | Drag Queen in the Court of Death | ||
Evan Solomon | 1968 | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance | |
Madeline Sonik | 1960 | |||
J. Dewey Soper | 1893 | 1982 | naturalist | |
Carolyn Marie Souaid | 1959 | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood | |
Gaétan Soucy | 1958 | 2013 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception , La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
Raymond Souster | 1921 | 2012 | poet | |
Esta Spalding | ||||
Linda Spalding | 1943 | The Follow,The Purchase | ||
Rae Spoon | songwriter, short stories | First Spring Grass Fire | ||
Michelle Spring | 1947 | sociologist, mystery fiction | Every Breath You Take, Standing in the Shadows, In the Midnight Hour | |
Birk Sproxton | 1943 | 2007 | ||
Amy Spurway | novelist | Crow | ||
Eva Stachniak | 1952 | novelist | Necessary Lies, The Winter Garden | |
Edna Staebler | 1906 | 2006 | journalist, Mennonite cooking | Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series |
Ted Staunton | 1956 | children's literature, picture books | Puddleman, Who I'm Not, Harry and Clare's Amazing Staycation | |
Robert Stead | 1880 | 1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
John Steffler | 1947 | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | |
Fred Stenson | 1951 | |||
Alexander Maitland Stephen | 1882 | 1942 | poet, novelist | The Rosary Of Pan, The Kingdom Of The Sun |
Arran Stephens | 1944 | The Compassionate Diet | ||
Angela Sterritt | journalist | Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls' | ||
Richard Stevenson | 1952 | |||
Robin Stevenson | children's/young adult literature | |||
Shannon Stewart | poet, children's literature | |||
Walter Stewart | 1941 | 2004 | journalist, editor | |
Bill Stilwell | ||||
Kathy Stinson | 1952 | |||
John Elizabeth Stintzi | poet, novelist | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat | ||
Cassie Stocks | novelist | Dance, Gladys, Dance | ||
Aryeh Lev Stollman | 1954 | novelist, short stories | The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul | |
Anne Stone | Indelible | |||
Arthur G. Storey | 1915 | 2005 | novelist | Prairie Harvest |
Allan Stratton | 1951 | playwright | ||
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer | 1874 | 1950 | screenwriter, novelist | |
Cordelia Strube | 1960 | novelist, dramatist | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon | |
Alan Sullivan | 1868 | 1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
Moez Surani | 1979 | poet | Reticent Bodies | |
Rajiv Surendra | 1989 | memoirist | The Elephants in My Backyard | |
Joel A. Sutherland | 1980 | novelist, short stories | Frozen Blood | |
David Suzuki | 1936 | scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host | The Sacred Balance , Genethics , The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future | |
Mary Swan | 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Boys in the Trees | |
Susan Swan | 1945 | |||
Anna Swanson | poet | The Nights Also | ||
Robert Sward | 1933 | |||
Margaret Sweatman | 1953 | novelist | Fox, The Players | |
George Swede | 1940 | |||
Alastair Sweeny | 1946 | |||
Michael Ernest Sweet | 1979 | poetry, essay, nonfiction | ||
Guy Sylvestre | 1918 | 2010 | journalist, critic | |
Olivier Sylvestre | 1982 | playwright, short stories | La beauté du monde, La loi de la gravité, Noms fictifs | |
Harry L. Symons | 1892 | 1962 | novelist, humorist | Ojibway Melody |
Scott Symons | 1933 | 2009 | novelist, journalist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square |
Shawn Syms | 1970 | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar | |
George Szanto | 1940 | novels, short stories, criticism, biography, plays | Not Working, Friends & Marriages, Theater and Propaganda, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island, Bog Tender | |
Gillian Sze | poet | Quiet Night Think | ||
Anne Szumigalski | 1922 | 1999 | poet | Voice |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tanya Talaga | journalist | Seven Fallen Feathers | ||
Kenneth Tam | 1984 | novelist | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series | |
Mariko Tamaki | 1975 | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist | Skim , Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire | |
Darcy Tamayose | novelist, short stories | Odori, Ezra's Ghosts | ||
Shelley Tanaka | 1950 | editor, children's non-fiction | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic | |
Jordan Tannahill | 1988 | playwright | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company | |
Olivia Tapiero | 1990 | novelist | Les Murs, Rien du tout | |
Jules-Paul Tardivel | 1851 | 1905 | ||
Dennis E. Taylor | novelist, short stories | Bobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap | ||
Gladys Taylor | 1917 | 2015 | novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor | Pine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom |
Timothy Taylor | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park | |
Saeed Teebi | short stories | Her First Palestinian | ||
Ningeokuluk Teevee | 1963 | children's literature | Alego | |
Wayne Tefs | 1947 | 2014 | ||
Richard Teleky | 1944 | novelist, poet, short stories, non-fiction | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon | |
Charles Templeton | 1915 | 2001 | ||
John Terpstra | 1953 | poet | ||
Bill Terry | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven | ||
Adeline Margaret Tesky | 1855 | 1924 | novelist, short stories | Where the Sugar Maple Grows |
Souvankham Thammavongsa | 1978 | poet, short stories | Small Arguments, Light, How to Pronounce Knife | |
Yasuko Thanh | 1971 | novelist, short stories | Floating Like the Dead | |
France Théoret | 1942 | novelist, poet | L'homme qui peignait Staline, Cruauté du jeu | |
Denis Thériault | 1959 | |||
Yves Thériault | 1915 | 1983 | novelist, short stories | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
Sharon Thesen | 1946 | poet | The Good Bacteria | |
Serge Patrice Thibodeau | 1959 | poet | Le Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague | |
Madeleine Thien | 1974 | short stories, novelist | Simple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter | |
Kai Cheng Thom | 1991 | novelist, poet | a place called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars | |
Audrey Thomas | 1935 | novelist | Songs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa | |
Colin Thomas | 1939 | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion | |
Joan Thomas | 1949 | novelist | Reading by Lightning , Curiosity, The Opening Sky, Five Wives | |
Kai Thomas | novelist | In the Upper Country | ||
Clayton Thomas-Müller | memoirist | Life in the City of Dirty Water | ||
John Thompson | 1938 | 1976 | ||
Peggy Thompson | 1901 | 2009 | screenwriter | The Lotus Eaters , Better Than Chocolate |
Jan Thornhill | 1955 | children's literature, science | I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC | |
Elizabeth Thornton | 1940 | 2010 | ||
Russell Thornton | 1959 | poet | House Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | |
Kim Thúy | 1968 | novelist | Ru | |
Matthew Tierney | 1970 | poet | Probably Inevitable | |
Sara Tilley | 1978 | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke | |
Miriam Toews | 1964 | novelist | A Complicated Kindness , Irma Voth , All My Puny Sorrows | |
Morley Torgov | 1927 | |||
Lola Lemire Tostevin | ||||
Gérald Tougas | 1933 | 2019 | novelist, short stories | La Mauvaise foi, Le deuxième train de la nuit |
Paul Toupin | 1918 | 1993 | playwright, essayist, memoirist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain |
William Toye | 1926 | 2024 | author, editor | Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson |
Matthew J. Trafford | short stories | The Divinity Gene | ||
Michaël Trahan | 1984 | poet | Nœud coulant, La raison des fleurs | |
Catharine Parr Traill | 1802 | 1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
Rhea Tregebov | 1953 | poet | Remembering History | |
Lise Tremblay | 1957 | |||
Michel Tremblay | 1942 | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs | |
Sylvain Trudel | 1963 | novelist | ||
Stuart Trueman | 1911 | 1995 | journalist, humorist, historian | You're Only as Old as You Act |
Brian Tucker | novelist | Big White Knuckles | ||
Aren X. Tulchinsky | 1958 | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature | |
Élise Turcotte | 1957 | |||
Roxane Turcotte | 1952 | children's and youth literature writer | Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre | |
Pierre Turgeon | 1947 | novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher | The First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983 | |
Chris Turner | 1973 | non-fiction | Planet Simpson , The Geography of Hope | |
Michael Turner | 1962 | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo | |
Arielle Twist | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Unger | 1979 | novelist, satirist | Once Removed , The Daily Bonnet | |
Marie Uguay | 1955 | 1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
Chimwemwe Undi | poet | Scientific Marvel | ||
Priscila Uppal | 1974 | 2018 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
Emily Urquhart | 1977 | non-fiction | Beyond the Pale, Ordinary Wonder Tales, The Age of Creativity | |
Jane Urquhart | 1949 | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers | |
Geoffrey Ursell | 1943 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie |
David UU (David W. Harris) | 1948 | 1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
W. D. Valgardson | 1939 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories | |
Pierre Vallières | 1938 | 1998 | political essayist | Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique |
Edo Van Belkom | 1962 | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf | |
Richard Van Camp | 1971 | novelist, short stories, children's literature | The Lesser Blessed | |
Guy Vanderhaeghe | 1951 | novelist, short stories | The Englishman's Boy , The Last Crossing | |
Aritha Van Herk | 1954 | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address | |
Kasia Van Schaik | novelist | We Have Never Lived on Earth | ||
A. E. van Vogt | 1912 | 2000 | science fiction | Children of Tomorrow , Empire of the Atom |
Jean Vanier | 1928 | 2019 | theologian | Becoming Human |
Anuja Varghese | short stories | Chrysalis | ||
Sugith Varughese | 1957 | playwright, film and television | The Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones | |
M. G. Vassanji | 1950 | novelist | The Book of Secrets , The In-Between World of Vikram Lall | |
Caelum Vatnsdal | 1970 | film history | They Came From Within, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me | |
R. M. Vaughan | 1965 | 2020 | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells |
Guillermo Verdecchia | 1962 | playwright | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures | |
Robert Verdun | non-fiction, investigative reporting | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada | ||
Paul Vermeersch | 1973 | poet | Burn | |
Katherena Vermette | 1977 | poet, children's literature | North End Love Songs | |
Nancy Vickers | 1946 | novelist, poet | Capharnaum | |
Gilles Vigneault | 1928 | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé | |
Margaret Visser | 1940 | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate | |
Claude Vivier | 1948 | 1983 | composer, poet, librettist | Kopernikus , Lonely Child , Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire |
Élisabeth Vonarburg | 1947 | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères | |
Garth Von Buchholz | 1968 | poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems | |
John Voss | 1858 | 1922 | memoirs | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss |
Peter Vronsky | 1956 | investigative historian, filmmaker | Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters , Female Serial Killers , Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, Ridgeway: The Fenian-American Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 | |
Caroline Vu | 1959 | fiction | Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown | |
Prvoslav Vujcic | 1960 | poet, author | Thoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind | |
Dan Vyleta | 1974 | novelist, historian | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marie Wadden | non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan | ||
Tracey Waddleton | short stories | Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious | ||
Mark Sweeten Wade | 1858 | 1929 | historian | The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62 |
Richard Wagamese | 1955 | 2017 | novelist | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk |
Colleen Wagner | 1949 | playwright | The Monument | |
Fred Wah | 1939 | poet, novelist | Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan | |
David Walker | 1911 | 1992 | novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
Joan Walker | novelist | Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure | ||
Aimee Wall | novelist | We, Jane | ||
Bronwen Wallace | 1945 | 1989 | poet, short stories | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To |
Frederick William Wallace | 1886 | 1958 | journalist, novelist | Wooden Ships and Iron Men |
William Stewart Wallace | 1884 | 1970 | historian | The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
Paul A. W. Wallace | 1891 | 1967 | historian, anthropologist | Indians in Pennsylvania |
Tom Walmsley | 1948 | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin | |
Natalie Zina Walschots | 1983 | novelist, poet | Hench | |
Eric Walters | 1957 | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run | |
John Leigh Walters | 1933 | creative non-fiction | A Very Capable Life | |
Jack Wang | short stories | We Two Alone | ||
Russell Wangersky | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House , The Glass Harmonica | ||
Ryan Ward | 1990 | screenwriter | Son of the Sunshine | |
Sabrina Ward Harrison | 1975 | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open | |
Dianne Warren | 1950 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water | |
David Watmough | 1926 | 2017 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
Paul Watson | 1950 | conservationist, author, activist, poet | Earth Force, Earth Force 2, The War that Saved the Whales, Quotations, Songs from the Southern Ocean, Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity, The Haunted Mariner, Dealing with Climate Change and Stress, Orcapedia, Captain Paul Watson: Interview With a Pirate, Urgence! Il Faut Sauver Les Océans, Seal Wars, Ocean Warrior | |
Sheila Watson | 1909 | 1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
Alison Watt | 1957 | creative non-fiction, poet | The Last Island | |
Thomas Waugh | 1948 | academic, art and film historian | Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection | |
Alison Wearing | 1967 | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah | |
Jessica L. Webb | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions | ||
Barry Webster | 1961 | novels, short stories; magic realism | The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones | |
Andrew Wedderburn | novelist | The Milk Chicken Bomb | ||
John Weier | 1949 | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree | |
Matthew James Weigel | poet | Whitemud Walking | ||
Steve Weiner | 1947 | novelist | The Museum of Love | |
William Weintraub | 1926 | 2017 | ||
Helen Weinzweig | 1915 | 2010 | novelist, short stories | Basic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof |
Merrily Weisbord | journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror | ||
Elizabeth Wellburn | 1955 | children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
Zachariah Wells | 1976 | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled | |
Andrea Werhun | memoirist | Modern Whore | ||
Martin West | novelist, short stories | Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, Long Ride Yellow | ||
Andrew Westoll | science, travel, non-fiction | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary | ||
Robert Paul Weston | 1975 | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City | |
Michael Wex | 1954 | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist | |
Ron Weyman | 1915 | 2007 | television, mystery, memoir | Sherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast, Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise, Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West |
Dawud Wharnsby | 1972 | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist | |
Thomas Wharton | 1963 | novelist | Salamander, Icefields | |
Sherry White | screenwriter | Crackie , Down to the Dirt | ||
Joshua Whitehead | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed | ||
William Whitehead | 1931 | 2018 | documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
Douglas Whiteway | novelist, journalist | Father Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead | ||
Zoe Whittall | 1976 | |||
Armin Wiebe | 1948 | novelist, playwright | The Salvation of Yasch Siemens , Tatsea | |
Rudy Wiebe | 1934 | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many | |
Audrée Wilhelmy | 1985 | novelist | Oss, Les Sangs | |
Helen Waldstein Wilkes | 1936 | creative non-fiction | Letters from the Lost | |
Elyse Willems | 1986 | children's literature | A Night in Halloween House | |
Fred Williams | 1863 | 1944 | journalism, history | The Canadian Book of Days |
Jeffery Williams | 1920 | 2011 | military historian | Byng of Vimy, Far from Home |
Deborah Willis | 1982 | fiction writer | Vanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories | |
Jenny Heijun Wills | memoirist | Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related | ||
Alan R. Wilson | novelist, poet | Before the Flood | ||
Anne Elizabeth Wilson | 1901 | 1946 | poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer | Eager Footsteps |
Antoine Wilson | 1971 | novelist | Panorama City, Mouth to Mouth | |
Douglas Wilson | 1950 | 1992 | novelist, poet | Labour of Love |
Eric Wilson | 1940 | mysteries | Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books) | |
Ethel Wilson | 1888 | 1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval , The Window |
John Wilson | 1951 | historical fiction | Four Steps to Death , Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning | |
Jonathan Wilson | playwright | My Own Private Oshawa, Kilt | ||
Robert Charles Wilson | 1953 | science fiction | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin | |
Sheri-D Wilson | 1958 | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder | |
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang | 1983 | novelist | Small Beauty | |
Carol Windley | 1947 | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling | |
Rob Winger | 1974 | poet | Muybridge's Horse | |
Kathleen Winter | 1960 | novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel | |
Michael Winter | 1965 | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why | |
Kari-Lynn Winters | 1969 | children's literature, dramatist | Jeffrey and Sloth , On My Walk | |
Wyndham Wise | 1947 | film critic and historian | Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film | |
Adele Wiseman | 1928 | 1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
Christina Wong | novelist, playwright | Denison Avenue | ||
Lindsay Wong | memoirist | The Woo Woo | ||
Alan Woo | 1977 | children's literature, poet, short stories | Maggie's Chopsticks | |
Jaime Woo | non-fiction | Meet Grindr | ||
George Woodcock | 1912 | 1995 | poet, critic | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
Susan Wood | 1948 | 1980 | critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | Energumen; criticism |
Marnie Woodrow | 1969 | novelist | Spelling Mississippi | |
Grahame Woods | 1935 | novelist, screenwriter | Bloody Harvest, War Brides , Glory Enough for All | |
Lance Woolaver | 1948 | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange | |
Eric Wright | 1929 | 2015 | mysteries | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
J. F. C. Wright | 1904 | 1970 | journalist, historian | Slava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province |
L. R. Wright | 1939 | 2001 | mysteries | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
Richard B. Wright | 1937 | 2017 | novelist | Clara Callan |
Sarah Wylie | 1989 | novelist, young adult literature | All These Lives | |
Tim Wynne-Jones | 1948 | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro | |
Tim Wynveen | novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Xiaowen Zeng | journalist, short stories |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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Joel Yanofsky | novelist | Jacob's Ladder | ||
Pierre Yergeau | 1957 | novelist | L'écrivain public | |
Ying Chen | 1961 | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile | |
Jean Yoon | 1962 | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project | |
Alissa York | 1970 | novelist, short stories | Effigy | |
Elwy Yost | 1925 | 2011 | mysteries | White Shadows |
Graham Yost | 1959 | screenwriter | Speed | |
David Young | 1946 | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn | |
d'bi young | 1977 | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story | |
Ian Young | 1945 | poet, non-fiction, journalist | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature | |
Patricia Young | 1954 | poet, short stories | Ruin & Beauty, More Watery Still, Airstream | |
Scott Young | 1918 | 2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mysteries | A Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate |
Terence Young | 1953 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Island in Winter, Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake's | |
Josée Yvon | 1950 | 1994 | poet, playwright | Danseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees |
Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
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A. Light Zachary | poet | More Sure | ||
Eve Zaremba | 1930 | mysteries | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect | |
Robert Zend | 1929 | 1985 | poet, fiction, multimedia artist | Daymares, Oāb |
Xiran Jay Zhao | Novelist | Iron Widow | ||
David Zieroth | 1946 | poet | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn | |
Larry Zolf | 1934 | 2011 | journalist | Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale |
Syd Zolf | 1968 | poet | Human Resources, Masque | |
Daniel Zomparelli | poet, short stories | Davie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person | ||
Carolyn Zonailo | 1947 | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems | |
Jan Zwicky | 1955 | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.