List of Canadian writers

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
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## A

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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  |
Don Aker | 1955  |  | novelist, educator  | Of Things Not Seen, The First Stone
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  | 2023  | 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  |  |
Faith Arkorful |  |  | poet  | The Seventh Town of Ghosts
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  |
Emily Austin |  |  | novelist, poet  | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space
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 | 1990  |  | playwright  | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
Malcolm Azania | 1969  |  | science fiction  | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Caroline Azar |  |  | playwright  | The Surreal Detective

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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
Valérie Bah |  |  | novelist, short stories  | Subterrane, The Rage Letters
Samantha M. Bailey |  |  | novelist  | Woman on the Edge, Watch Out for Her
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
Joan Baxter |  |  | journalist, non-fiction  | A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal
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  | 2025  | 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  | 2025  | 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
Andrew Boden |  |  | novelist, short stories  | When We Were Ashes, The Secret History of My Hometown
Fred Bodsworth | 1918  | 2012  | journalist, naturalist  | The Last of the Curlews
Alice Boissonneau | 1918  | 2007  | novelist, short stories, poetry, memoirs  | Eileen McCullough, There Will Be Gardens
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  | 2022  | screenwriter  | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard
Marie Brassard |  |  | playwright  |
Jacques Brault | 1933  | 2022  | 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  | 2024  | 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!
Ian Brown | 1954  |  | journalist  | Man Overboard, The Boy in the Moon
Loranne Brown | 1955  |  | novelist, short stories  | The Handless Maiden
William J. Bruce III | 1980  |  | author  | Penholder, Introduction for 150th Anniversary Edition of Demons
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 | 1971  |  | novelist, short stories, non-fiction  | This Marlowe, Constant Nobody
Jake Byrne |  |  | poet  | Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin, DADDY

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Charmaine Cadeau |  |  | poet  |
Heather Cadsby |  |  | poet  |
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  | 2022  | 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
Morgan Campbell | 1976  |  | sportswriter, memoirist  | My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us
Nicola I. Campbell |  |  | poetry, children's literature, memoir  | Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe
Bridget Canning |  |  | novelist  | The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
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
Charlene Carr |  |  | novelist  | Hold My Girl, We Rip the World Apart
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  | 2025  | 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  | 2022  | 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  | 2025  | 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  |
Lesley Crewe | 1955  |  |  | The Spoon Stealer
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
Oisin Curran |  |  | novelist  | Blood Fable
Andrea Curtis |  |  | creative non-fiction  | Into the Blue
Herb Curtis | 1949  |  | novelist, humorist  | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Kayla Czaga | 1989  |  | poet  | For Your Safety Please Hold On

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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
Joan Dawson |  |  | historian  |
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
John DeMont |  |  | journalist, non-fiction  | Coal Black Heart, The Long Way Home
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
Robert C. Dennis | 1915  | 1983  | pulp fiction, mysteries, radio and television shows, screenplays novelist  |
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  | 2024  | 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

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Lawrence Earl | 1915  | 2005  | novelist, journalist  | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass
Edith Maude Eaton | 1865  | 1914  | short stories  | Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Evelyn Eaton | 1902  | 1983  | novelist, poet  | Quietly My Captain Waits
Chris Eaton | 1971  |  | novelist, music  | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect
Winnifred Eaton | 1875  | 1954  | novelist  | A Japanese Nightingale
James Eayrs | 1926  | 2021  | historian  | In Defence of Canada
Kim Echlin | 1955  |  | novelist  | The Disappeared
David Eddie |  |  | novelist, humorist  | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control
Esi Edugyan | 1978  |  | novelist  | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black
Caterina Edwards | 1948  |  | novelist, playwright, short story writer  |  The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife
Modris Eksteins | 1943  |  | historian  | Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
Francesca Ekwuyasi |  |  | novelist  | Butter Honey Pig Bread
Rima Elkouri |  |  | novelist, journalist  | Manam
George Elliott | 1923  | 1996  | short stories  | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys
Deborah Ellis | 1960  |  | non-fiction, young adult fiction  | The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop
Sarah Ellis | 1952  |  | children's literature  | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks
Louis Émond | 1969  |  | novelist  | The Manuscript
Marina Endicott | 1958  |  | novelist  | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference
Howard Engel | 1931  | 2019  | mysteries  | The Suicide Murders
Marian Engel | 1933  | 1985  | novelist  | Bear
Yves Engler | 1979  |  | politics, activist  | Playing Left Wing
Sharon English | 1965  |  | short stories  | Zero Gravity
Karen Enns |  |  | poet  | That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics
Steven Erikson | 1959  |  | novelist  | Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Ann Eriksson | 1956  |  | novelist  | In the Hands of Anubis
Thom Ernst |  |  | film critic, memoirist  | The Wild Boy of Waubamik
Gloria Escomel | 1941  |  | novelist, dramatist, journalist  | Pièges, Fruit de la passion
Robin Esrock | 1974  |  | travel writer  | The Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List
Michael Estok | 1939  | 1989  | poet  | A Plague Year Journal
Hubert Evans | 1892  | 1986  | novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature  | Mist on the River
Jon Evans | 1973  |  | novelist  | Dark Places
Stanley Evans | 1931  |  | novelist  | Seaweed series of crime fiction

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Emil Fackenheim | 1916  | 2003  | historian, philosopher  |
Jean Mohsen Fahmy | 1942  |  | novelist, short stories, literary criticism  | L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée
Terry Fallis | 1959  |  | humorist  | The Best Laid Plans
Alain Farah | 1979  |  | novelist, poet  | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne
Abla Farhoud | 1945  | 2021  | novelist, playwright  | Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince
Edmundo Farolan | 1943  | 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
Judith Fingard | 1943  |  | historian  | The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax
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  | 2022  | 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  | 2024  | journalist  |
Janine Fuller | 1958  |  | non-fiction  | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pik-Shuen Fung |  |  | novelist  | Ghost Forest
Wes Funk | 1969  | 2015  | novelist  | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage
Nicola Furlong |  |  |  |

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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
Martyn Godfrey | 1949  | 2000  | writer, teacher, writer in residence  | Ms. Teeny-Wonderful Series, Can You Teach Me To Pick My Nose?
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
Marlowe Granados |  |  | novelist, screenwriter  | Happy Hour
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  | The Men of the Last Frontier, Pilgrims of the Wild
Francis William Grey | 1860  | 1939  | novelist, poet, non-fiction  | The Curé of St. Philippe
Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894  | 1976  | novelist, satirist  | Un Homme et son péché
G. A. Grisenthwaite |  |  | novelist, short stories, poet  | Home Waltz
Lionel Groulx | 1878  | 1967  | historian  | The Call of the Race
Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879  | 1948  | novelist  | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways
Brett Josef Grubisic | 1963  |  | novelist, critic  | The Age of Cities
Katia Grubisic | 1978  |  | poet, short stories  | what if red ran out
Agnès Gruda |  |  | journalist, short story writer  | Onze petites trahisons
Christian Guay-Poliquin | 1982  |  | novelist  | Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige
Germaine Guèvremont | 1893  | 1968  | novelist, short stories  | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace
Genni Gunn | 1949  |  | novelist, poet  | Tracing Iris, Faceless
Kristjana Gunnars | 1948  |  | poet, novelist  | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps
Stephen Guppy | 1951  |  | poet, novelist, short stories  | Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy
David Gurr | 1936  |  | novelist, playwright  | The Ring Master
Ralph Gustafson | 1909  | 1995  | poet  | Fire on Stone
Don Gutteridge | 1937  |  | poet, novelist  |
Guy Lawson | 1963  |  | journalist  | War Dogs
Sandra Gwyn | 1935  | 2000  | journalist  | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

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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
Susan Haley | 1949  |  | novelist  | A Nest of Singing Birds, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
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  | 2024  | 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  | 2024  | 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
Kay Hill | 1917  | 2011  | Joe Howe: The Man who was Nova Scotia | playwright, children's literature
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  | 2022  | 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
Rick Howe | 1954  | 2024  | radio personality, non-fiction  | Behind the Mic
Stevie Howell |  |  | poet  | Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose
Nazanine Hozar | 1978  |  | novelist  | Aria
David Huebert |  |  | short stories, poetry  | Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley
Annie Campbell Huestis | 1878  | 1960  | short stories, poetry  | Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp
Tanya Huff | 1957  |  | fantasy  |
Matt Hughes | 1949  |  |  |
Helen Humphreys | 1961  |  | novelist  | Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus
Aislinn Hunter |  |  |  |
Bruce Hunter | 1952  |  | poet, novelist, non-fiction  | Coming Home from Home, Country Music Country, The Beekeeper's Daughter, Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected, In The Bear's House
Catherine Hunter | 1957  |  |  |
Maureen Hunter | 1948  |  |  |
Mervyn Huston | 1912  | 2001  | humorist  | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes
Nancy Huston | 1953  |  | novelist, translator  |
Linda Hutcheon | 1947  |  | critic, academic  | The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation.
Hazel Hutchins |  |  |  |
Chris Hutchinson | 1972  |  | poet, novelist, academic  | Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames
Bruce Hutchison | 1901  | 1992  |  |
Céline Huyghebaert |  |  | novelist  | Le drap blanc
Joel Thomas Hynes | 1976  |  | novelist, playwright, screenwriter  | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday
Maureen Hynes |  |  | poet  | Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow

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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

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Donald Jack | 1924  | 2003  | novelist, playwright  | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses
Suzanne Jacob | 1953  |  | novelist, poet  | Laura Laur, La Part de feu
Heidi L. M. Jacobs |  |  | novelist  | Molly of the Mall
Maria Jacobs | 1930  |  | poet  |
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 | 1935  | 2022  | 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

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Michael Kaan |  |  | fiction  | The Water Beetles
Joseph Kakwinokanasum |  |  | fiction  | My Indian Summer
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  | 2022  | 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

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Sonnet L'Abbé |  |  | poet  | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe
Carole Labarre | 1966  |  | novelist  | L'Or des mélèzes
Richard Labonté | 1949  | 2022  | 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
Myriam Lacroix |  |  | novelist  | How It Works Out
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  | 2023  | 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
Lezlie Lowe |  |  | journalist, non-fiction  | No Place to Go, The Volunteers
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

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Rozena Maart | 1962  |  | novelist, short stories  | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle
Patrick MacAdam | 1934  | 2015  |  | Gold Medal Misfits
Annick MacAskill |  |  | poet  | Shadow Blight
Ann-Marie MacDonald | 1958  |  | novelist, playwright  | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Bryden MacDonald | 1960  |  | playwright  | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath
D. R. MacDonald | 1939  |  | novelist, short stories  | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
Dawn Macdonald |  |  | poet  | Northerny
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  | 2025  | 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  | 2023  | 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, The Night Drummer, To Our Graves
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  | 2023  | 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  | 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
Jim McEwen |  |  | novelist  | Fearnoch
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
Rick Mercer | 1969  |  | comedian, television personality & writer, political satirist, and author  | Rick Mercer Report, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, A Nation Worth Ranting About
Judith Merril | 1923  | 1997  | science fiction, editor  |
Mireille Messier | 1971  |  | children's literature  | The Branch, The Magic Cap
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  | 2024  |  |
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

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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  | 2022  | 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  | 2023  | journalist  | The Canadian Establishment
B. P. Nichol | 1944  | 1988  | poet  | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology
Cecily Nicholson |  |  | poet  | From the Poplars, Wayside Sang
Hal Niedzviecki | 1971  |  | novelist, critic  | Ditch, We Want Some Too
Susin Nielsen |  |  | children's and young adult literature  | The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Frederick Niven | 1878  | 1944  | novelist  | The Flying Years
Fraser Nixon |  |  | crime novelist  | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head
Francine Noël | 1945  |  | novelist, playwright  | La Femme de ma vie
Henri Nouwen | 1932  | 1996  | theologian  | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love
Mary Novik | 1945  |  | novelist  | Conceit
Alden Nowlan | 1933  | 1983  | poet  | Bread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself

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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
Vernon Oickle |  |  | journalist, folklore, ghost stories  |
Alexandra Oliver | 1970  |  | poet  | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Tolu Oloruntoba |  |  | poet  | The Junta of Happenstance
Bryan Lee O'Malley | 1979  |  | graphic novelist  | Scott Pilgrim
Heather O'Neill | 1973  |  | novelist  | Lullabies for Little Criminals
Michael Ondaatje | 1943  |  | novelist, poet  | The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost
Christopher Ondaatje | 1933  |  | writer, publisher  | The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867–1967, The Man-eater of Punanai — a Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia |  |  | novelist  | The Son of the House
Kenneth Oppel | 1967  |  | children's literature  | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga
Stephen Osborne | 1947  |  | journalist  | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World
Gabriel Osson |  |  | novelist, poet, memoirist  | Le jour se lèvera
Martha Ostenso | 1900  | 1963  | novelist, screenwriter  | Wild Geese
Lawrence O'Toole |  |  | film critic, memoirist  | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home
Fernand Ouellette | 1930  |  | poet, novelist  | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures
Susan Ouriou | 1955  |  | novelist, short stories, translator  | Damselfish
James Macdonald Oxley | 1855  | 1907  | novelist (juvenile)  |

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Elizabeth Pacey |  |  | non-fiction  | Miracle on Brunswick Street
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
Karen Pinchin |  |  | non-fiction  | Kings of Their Own Ocean
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  | 2023  | 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
Jen Powley | 1977  | 2023  | non-fiction, interactive fiction  | Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis
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  | 2025  | novelist  | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission

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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
Anna Quon |  |  | poet, novelist  |

## R

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Tom Rachman | 1974  |  | novelist  | The Imperfectionists
Thomas Head Raddall | 1903  | 1994  | novelist  | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories
Kenneth Radu | 1945  |  | novelist, poet, short stories  | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance
Nasrin Rahimieh |  |  | Persian literature  | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage
Deepa Rajagopalan |  |  | short stories  | Peacocks of Instagram
Danny Ramadan | 1984  |  | novelist, short stories  | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing
Menaka Raman-Wilms |  |  | journalist, novelist  | The Rooftop Garden
Gurcharan Rampuri | 1929  | 2018  |  |
Gord Rand |  |  | playwright  | Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams
Edeet Ravel | 1955  |  | novelist  | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers
Angela Rawlings | 1978  |  |  |
Ben Rayner |  |  | music journalist  |
Mark A. Rayner |  |  |  |
James Reaney | 1926  | 2008  | poet, playwright  | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's
Kelly Rebar | 1956  |  | playwright, screenwriter  | Bordertown Café
Duke Redbird | 1939  |  | poet, academic, journalist  |
Corey Redekop |  |  | novelist, short stories  | Husk
Michael Redhill | 1966  |  | novelist, short stories  | Martin Sloane, Bellevue Square
Beatrice Redpath | 1886  | 1937  | poet, short stories  | Drawn Shutters, White Lilac
Roberta Rees | 1954  |  | novelist, poet, short stories  | Eyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers
Iain Reid | 1980  |  | novelist, memoirist  | The Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Gayla Reid | 1945  |  | novels, short stories  | To Be There With You
Raziel Reid | 1990  |  | young adult novelist  | When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Stephen Reid | 1950  | 2018  | memoirist, novelist  | Jack Rabbit Parole
Zalika Reid-Benta |  |  | short stories  | Frying Plantain
Kati Rekai | 1921  | 2010  |  | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece
Maria Reva |  |  | short stories  | Good Citizens Need Not Fear
Shane Rhodes |  |  | poet  | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery
François Ricard | 1947  | 2022  | biographer, essayist  | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie
Nino Ricci | 1959  |  | novelist  | Lives of the Saints
Waubgeshig Rice |  |  | novelist, short stories  | Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow
David Adams Richards | 1950  |  | novelist  | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street
Evelyn M. Richardson | 1902  | 1976  | novelist  | Desired Haven
Jael Richardson |  |  | memoirist, playwright  | The Stone Thrower
John Richardson | 1796  | 1852  | novelist  | Wacousta
Robin Richardson |  |  | poet  | Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want
Edward Riche | 1961  |  | novelist, screenwriter  | Rare Birds
Daniel Richler | 1957  |  | novelist, journalist  | Kicking Tomorrow
Emma Richler | 1961  |  | novelist, short stories  | Sister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs
Jacob Richler |  |  | journalist  |
Mordecai Richler | 1931  | 2001  | novelist  | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version
Nancy Richler | 1957  | 2018  | novelist  | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride
Noah Richler |  |  | journalist  | This Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War
Emily Riddle |  |  | poet  | The Big Melt
Tanis Rideout |  |  | poet, novelist  | Above All Things
Sandra Ridley |  |  | poet  | Silvija, Vixen
T. F. Rigelhof | 1944  |  | novelist, memoirist, literary critic  | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress
Sharon Riis | 1947  | 2016  | novelist, short stories, screenwriter  | The True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton)  | 1895  | 1960  | novelist  | Thirty Acres
Charles Ritchie | 1906  | 1995  | diarist  | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years
Thomas Beattie Roberton | 1879  | 1936  | journalist, critic  | TBR: Newspaper Pieces
Charles G.D. Roberts | 1860  | 1943  | poet, novelist  | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg
Ken Roberts | 1946  |  |  |
Paul William Roberts | 1950  | 2019  |  |
Bill Robertson |  |  | screenwriter  | The Events Leading Up to My Death, Apartment Hunting
Lisa Robertson | 1961  |  | poet  |
Margaret Murray Robertson | 1823  | 1897  | novelist  |
John Daniel Robins | 1884  | 1952  | humorist  | The Incomplete Anglers
Eden Robinson | 1968  |  | novelist  | Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster
J. Jill Robinson | 1955  |  | short stories, creative non-fiction  | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire
Peter Robinson | 1950  | 2022  | 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  |
Oakland Ross | 1952  |  | journalist, short stories, novelist  | Guerrilla Beach, A Fire on the Mountains
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  |  |  |

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Michelle Sagara | 1963  |  | fantasy  |
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard |  |  | playwright  | Gas Girls, A Man A Fish
Rodney Saint-Éloi |  |  | poet  | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé
Kerri Sakamoto | 1960  |  | novelist  | The Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts
Mark Sakamoto | 1977  |  | memoirist  | Forgiveness
Trish Salah |  |  | poet  | Wanting in Arabic
Rebecca Salazar |  |  | poet  | sulphurtongue
G. Herbert Sallans | 1895  | 1960  | novelist  | Little Man
Rick Salutin | 1942  |  | columnist, novelist  | A Man of Little Faith
Laura G. Salverson | 1890  | 1970  | novelist  | The Dark Weaver
Liselle Sambury |  |  | fantasy, young adult  | Blood Like Magic
Jacob Sampson | 1988  |  | playwright  | Chasing Champions
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  | 2024  | 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
Dollard Senécal | 1912  | 2002  |  |
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
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  | 2023  |  |
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  | 2022  |  |
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

## T

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Tanya Talaga |  |  | journalist  | Seven Fallen Feathers
Kenneth Tam | 1984  |  | novelist  | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series
Mariko Tamaki | 1975  |  | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist  | Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire
Darcy Tamayose |  |  | novelist, short stories  | Odori, Ezra's Ghosts
Shelley Tanaka | 1950  |  | editor, children's non-fiction  | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic
Jordan Tannahill | 1988  |  | playwright  | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company
Olivia Tapiero | 1990  |  | novelist  | Les Murs, Rien du tout
Jules-Paul Tardivel | 1851  | 1905  |  |
Damian Tarnopolsky |  |  | novelist, dramatist, short stories  | Goya's Dog, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster
Jon Tattrie |  |  | non-fiction, journalist  |
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
Alex Tétreault | 1994  |  | poet, playwright  | Nickel City Fifs, Avert Your Gays
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
Kaleigh Trace | 1986  |  | writer, sex educator, therapist  | Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex
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

## U

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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

## V

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W. D. Valgardson | 1939  |  | novelist, poet, short stories  | The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories
Pierre Vallières | 1938  | 1998  | political essayist  | Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique
Edo Van Belkom | 1962  |  | horror  | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf
Richard Van Camp | 1971  |  | novelist, short stories, children's literature  | The Lesser Blessed
Guy Vanderhaeghe | 1951  |  | novelist, short stories  | The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing
Aritha Van Herk | 1954  |  | novelist  | Judith, No Fixed Address
Kasia Van Schaik |  |  | novelist  | We Have Never Lived on Earth
A. E. van Vogt | 1912  | 2000  | science fiction  | Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom
Jean Vanier | 1928  | 2019  | theologian  | Becoming Human
Anuja Varghese |  |  | short stories  | Chrysalis
Sugith Varughese | 1957  |  | playwright, film and television  | The Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones
M. G. Vassanji | 1950  |  | novelist  | The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Caelum Vatnsdal | 1970  |  | film history  | They Came From Within, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me
R. M. Vaughan | 1965  | 2020  | novelist, poet  | A Quilted Heart, Spells
Guillermo Verdecchia | 1962  |  | playwright  | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures
Robert Verdun |  |  | non-fiction, investigative reporting  | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada
Paul Vermeersch | 1973  |  | poet  | Burn
Katherena Vermette | 1977  |  | poet, children's literature  | North End Love Songs
Nancy Vickers | 1946  |  | novelist, poet  | Capharnaum
Gilles Vigneault | 1928  |  | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter  | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé
Margaret Visser | 1940  |  | philosopher  | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate
Claude Vivier | 1948  | 1983  | composer, poet, librettist  | Kopernikus, Lonely Child, Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire
Élisabeth Vonarburg | 1947  |  | science fiction  | Chroniques du pays des mères
Garth Von Buchholz | 1968  |  | poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction  | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems
John Voss | 1858  | 1922  | memoirs  | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
Peter Vronsky | 1956  |  | investigative historian, filmmaker  | Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Female Serial Killers, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, Ridgeway: The Fenian-American Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000
Caroline Vu | 1959  |  | fiction  | Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown
Prvoslav Vujcic | 1960  |  | poet, author  | Thoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind
Dan Vyleta | 1974  |  | novelist, historian  | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin

## W

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Marie Wadden |  |  | non-fiction  | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan
Tracey Waddleton |  |  | short stories  | Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious
Mark Sweeten Wade | 1858  | 1929  | historian  | The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62
Richard Wagamese | 1955  | 2017  | novelist  | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk
Colleen Wagner | 1949  |  | playwright  | The Monument
Fred Wah | 1939  |  | poet, novelist  | Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan
David Walker | 1911  | 1992  | novelist  | The Pillar, Digby
Joan Walker |  |  | novelist  | Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure
Aimee Wall |  |  | novelist  | We, Jane
Bronwen Wallace | 1945  | 1989  | poet, short stories  | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To
Frederick William Wallace | 1886  | 1958  | journalist, novelist  | Wooden Ships and Iron Men
William Stewart Wallace | 1884  | 1970  | historian  | The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Paul A. W. Wallace | 1891  | 1967  | historian, anthropologist  | Indians in Pennsylvania
Tom Walmsley | 1948  | 2025  | novelist, dramatist, poet  | Doctor Tin
Natalie Zina Walschots | 1983  |  | novelist, poet  | Hench
Matthew Walsh |  |  | poet  | these are not the potatoes of my youth, Terrarium
Eric Walters | 1957  |  | novelist  | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run
John Leigh Walters | 1933  | 2023  | creative non-fiction  | A Very Capable Life
Michelle Wamboldt |  |  | novelist  | Birth Road
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
David Weale | 1942  |  | non-fiction, children's literature  | The True Meaning of Crumbfest
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  | 2024  | 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
Nicola Winstanley |  |  | children's literature, short stories  | How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps, Smoke
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 | 1934  | 2022  | 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

## X

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Xiaowen Zeng |  |  | journalist, short stories  |

## Y

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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

## Z

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A. Light Zachary |  |  | poet  | More Sure
Eve Zaremba | 1930  |  | mysteries  | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect
Robert Zend | 1929  | 1985  | poet, fiction, multimedia artist  | Daymares, Oāb
Xiran Jay Zhao |  |  | Novelist  | Iron Widow
David Zieroth | 1946  |  | poet  | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn
Larry Zolf | 1934  | 2011  | journalist  | Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale
Syd Zolf | 1968  |  | poet  | Human Resources, Masque
Daniel Zomparelli |  |  | poet, short stories  | Davie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Carolyn Zonailo | 1947  |  | poet  | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems
Jan Zwicky | 1955  |  | poet, essayist  | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

## See also

[edit]

* List of Canadian poets
* List of Canadian playwrights
* List of Canadian short story writers
* List of Canadian science fiction authors
* List of Canadian historians
* List of Canadian women writers in French
* List of Quebec writers
* List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
* List of famous Canadians
* Lists of authors

## Further reading

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* Heath, Jeffrey M (1991), Profiles in Canadian Literature, Volume 7, Dundurn Press, ISBN 1-55002-145-1
* Stouck, David (1988), Major Canadian authors : a critical introduction to Canadian literature in English (2nd ed.), University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-4119-4

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