Shari Lapena (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. [1] She is best known for her 2016 thriller novel The Couple Next Door, which was a bestseller both in Canada and internationally. [2]
Lapena, a lawyer and English teacher before beginning her writing career, [3] published her debut novel Things Go Flying in 2008. That novel was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in 2009. [4] Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012. [5]
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary award presented for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer, published or self-published in the previous year. The silver medal, designed by sculptor Emanuel Hahn, is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) and is accompanied by a cash prize of $25,000 (CAD). It is presented in the late spring or early summer each year, during a banquet ceremony in or near Leacock’s hometown of Orillia, Ontario.
Thomas King is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations.
Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.
William Stener Ferguson is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419 (2012).
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer and editor established in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Andrew Kaufman is a Canadian writer, film director, and radio producer, best known for novels which incorporate aspects of genre literature, such as fantasy, superhero and detective novels, with humor.
Ami McKay is an American Canadian novelist, playwright and journalist.
Laurie Gelman is a Canadian television personality and writer, originally from Ottawa, Ontario. In 2007 she worked on two Canadian-based talk shows, The Mom Show and Doctor in the House.
Terry Fallis is a Canadian writer and public relations consultant. He is a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, winning in 2008 for his debut novel The Best Laid Plans and in 2015 for No Relation.
Susan Juby is a Canadian writer. She is currently residing in Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she is a professor of creative writing at Vancouver Island University.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican and Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.
Amybeth McNulty is an Irish actress. She is known for her starring role as Anne Shirley in the CBC/Netflix drama series Anne with an E (2017–2019), based on the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. She has also played loquacious teenager Vickie in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2022–present).
An Inheritance of Ashes is a 2015 young adult fantasy novel by Leah Bobet. It was published by Clarion Books.
Amy Jones is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel We're All in This Together was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2017.
Uzma Jalaluddin is a Canadian writer and teacher, known for her 2018 debut novel Ayesha At Last.
Ali Bryan is a Canadian novelist, and personal trainer. Her second novel, The Figgs, was shortlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
Indians on Vacation is a novel by Canadian writer Thomas King, published in 2020 by HarperCollins. The novel focuses on Bird and Mimi, a First Nations couple who are travelling in Europe following the discovery of a trove of old postcards from Mimi's late uncle Leroy, who absconded with a valuable family heirloom 100 years earlier but never returned.
Cody Caetano is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario, whose debut memoir Half-Bads in White Regalia was the winner of the Indigenous Voices Award for English prose in 2023.