List of Canadian writers
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Abella | 1940 | historian | None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 | |
| Louise Abbott | non fiction author, photographer, filmmaker | The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence | ||
| Hugh Abercrombie | 1890 | 1965 | playwright | Auld Lang Syne |
| 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 | 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 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence | |
| Gil Adamson | 1961 | novelist, short stories, poetry | The Outlander | |
| Caroline Adderson | 1963 | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice | |
| Marie-Célie Agnant | 1953 | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang | |
| Freda Ahenakew | 1932 | 2011 | linguist, children's literature | |
| Kelley Aitken | 1954 | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate | |
| Will Aitken | 1949 | novelist, journalist | Terre Haute, Realia | |
| Donald Akenson | 1941 | novelist, historian | ||
| Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm | 1965 | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet | |
| 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 | |
| Scott Albert | 1975 | novelist, screenwriter | ||
| 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 | ||
| Sandra Alland | 1973 | poet, journalist | ||
| Donna Allard | 1956 | poet | ||
| Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) |
1941 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | ||
| Grant Allen | 1848 | 1899 | science writer, novelist | The Woman Who Did |
| Harper Allen | romantic fiction | |||
| Lillian Allen | 1951 | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes | |
| Ralph Allen | 1913 | 1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
| Robert Thomas Allen | 1911 | 1990 | humorist, children's literature | The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life |
| Tom Allen | 1964 | creative non-fiction | Rolling Home | |
| Paul Almond | 1931 | 2015 | novelist, screenwriter | |
| Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951 | 2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
| George Amabile | 1936 | poet | ||
| Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard) | 1906 | 1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
| Marguerite Andersen | 1924 | 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 |
| 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 | |
| Michael Andre | 1946 | poet | ||
| François-Réal Angers | 1812 | 1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jonathan Auxier | young adult literature | The Night Gardener | ||
| François Avard | 1968 | screenwriter | Les Bougon | |
| Margaret Avison | 1918 | 2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
| Mona Awad | novelist, short stories | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | ||
| Edem Awumey | 1975 | novelist | Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales | |
| Malcolm Azania | 1969 | science fiction | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | |
| Caroline Azar | playwright | The Surreal Detective |
B
| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa B | spoken word poet | |||
| Todd Babiak | novelist | The Garneau Block | ||
| Ken Babstock | 1970 | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht | |
| Mette Bach | novelist, screenwriter | |||
| Elizabeth Bachinsky | 1976 | poet | ||
| Bruce Bagemihl | 1962 | science | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | |
| Martha Baillie | 1960 | novelist | The Incident Report | |
| Jacqueline Baker | 1967 | novelist, short stories | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours | |
| R. Scott Bakker | 1967 | fantasy | Prince of Nothing | |
| Shauna Singh Baldwin | 1962 | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw | |
| Winifred Bambrick | 1892 | 1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Robert Barr | 1849 | 1912 | novelist, short stories, humorist | The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
| Laurent Barré | 1886 | 1964 | novelist | |
| James Bartleman | 1939 | memoirist, young adult literature | Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow | |
| John Barton | 1957 | poet | Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis | |
| Gary Barwin | 1964 | novelist, children's literature, poet | Seeing Stars | |
| Earl W. Bascom | 1906 | 1995 | cowboy historian | The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding |
| Rodrigo Bascunan | 1976 | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System | |
| Jean Basile | 1932 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
| Michel Basilières | 1960 | novelist | Black Bird | |
| Gurjinder Basran | novelist | Everything Was Good-bye | ||
| Frédéric Bastien | 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 | |
| Kevin Bazzana | 1963 | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould | |
| Yves Beauchemin | 1941 | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou | |
| Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | 1945 | novelist, playwright | ||
| Doug Beardsley | 1941 | poet | Dancing Star | |
| Deni Ellis Béchard | 1974 | novelist | Vandal Love | |
| Peter Behrens | 1954 | novelist, screenwriter, short-stories | The Law of Dreams | |
| Henry Beissel | 1929 | non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator | Under Coyote's Eye | |
| Ken Belford | 1946 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains | |
| Donald Bell | 1937 | 2003 | journalist, humorist | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
| William E. Bell | 1945 | children's literature | Forbidden City | |
| Winthrop Pickard Bell | 1884 | 1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
| Paul Bellini | 1959 | screenwriter, comedy | ||
| John Bemrose | 1947 | journalist, novelist, playwright, poet | The Island Walkers | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jovette Bernier | 1900 | 1981 | journalist, novelist, poet | Non Monsieur |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Marie-Claire Blais | 1939 | novelist, playwright, poet | Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, La Belle Bête | |
| Clark Blaise | 1940 | novelist, short stories, memoirist | Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories | |
| Robin Blaser | 1925 | 2009 | essayist, poet | |
| Lance Blomgren | 1970 | short stories, essays | Walkups, Corner Pieces | |
| 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 | |
| Adam Bock | playwright | The Receptionist, The Drunken City | ||
| Dennis Bock | 1964 | novelist, short stories | The Ash Garden | |
| Michel Bock | 1971 | historian, non-fiction | Quand la nation débordait les frontières | |
| Fred Bodsworth | 1918 | 2012 | journalist, naturalist | The Last of the Curlews |
| Christian Bök | 1966 | poet | Eunoia | |
| Stephanie Bolster | 1969 | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
| Carol Bolt | 1941 | 2000 | playwright | Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists |
| Kenneth Bonert | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Pan Bouyoucas | 1946 | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea | |
| Gail Bowen | 1942 | novelist, playwright | ||
| George Bowering | 1935 | biographer, novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water | |
| Marilyn Bowering | 1949 | poet, novelist, playwright | Visible Worlds, Autobiography | |
| 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 | playwright, screenwriter | Consecrated Ground | |
| Joseph Boyden | 1966 | novelist, short stories | Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda | |
| Harry J. Boyle | 1915 | 2005 | humorist, novelist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
| Karleen Bradford | 1936 | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves | |
| Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite | 1963 | 2008 | essayist, novelist, poet | |
| Max Braithwaite | 1911 | 1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
| Shannon Bramer | 1973 | poet | The Refrigerator Memory | |
| Alan Bradley | 1938 | mystery | Flavia de Luce series | |
| Dionne Brand | 1953 | essayist, novelist, poet | What We All Long For, Land to Light On | |
| Di Brandt | 1952 | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care | |
| Beth Brant | 1941 | 2015 | ||
| André Brassard | 1946 | screenwriter | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard | |
| Marie Brassard | playwright | |||
| Jacques Brault | 1933 | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin | |
| Lois Braun | 1949 | short stories | A Stone Watermelon | |
| Brian Brett | 1950 | novelist, memoirist, poet | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden | |
| Krista Bridge | novelist, short stories | The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls | ||
| Robert Bringhurst | 1946 | poet, author, typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major | |
| Barry Broadfoot | 1926 | 2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
| Hélène Brodeur | 1923 | 2010 | historical fiction | Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario |
| David Bromige | 1933 | 2009 | poet | My Poetry |
| Frances Brooke | 1724 | 1789 | novelist, essayist | The History of Emily Montague |
| Bertram Brooker | 1888 | 1955 | poet, advertising | Subconscious Selling |
| Carellin Brooks | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach | ||
| Nicole Brossard | 1943 | novelist, poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse | |
| Chrystine Brouillet | 1958 | novelist, children's literature | ||
| Sigmund Brouwer | 1959 | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! | |
| Charles Tory Bruce | 1906 | 1971 | poet, novelist, journalist | The Mulgrave Road |
| Julie Bruck | 1957 | poet | The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch | |
| Tyler Brûlé | 1968 | journalist | ||
| Gaétan Brulotte | 1945 | academic, novelist, playwright, short stories | ||
| Nick Brune | 1952 | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture | |
| Carol Bruneau | 1956 | novelist | Purple for Sky | |
| Louis-Ovide Brunet | 1826 | 1876 | botany | |
| Michel Brunet | 1917 | 1985 | historian | Les Canadiens après la conquête |
| Cathy Marie Buchanan | 1963 | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls | |
| Ernest Buckler | 1908 | 1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
| Robert Budde | 1966 | poet, novelist | Finding Fort George | |
| 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 | |
| Bonnie Burnard | 1945 | novelist | A Good House | |
| Murdoch Burnett | 1953 | 2015 | poet | Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans |
| Richard Burnett | journalist | |||
| Mick Burrs | 1940 | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob | |
| Frank Christopher Busch | novelist | Grey Eyes | ||
| Catherine Bush | 1961 | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement | |
| Sharon Butala | 1940 | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning | |
| Alec Butler | 1959 | playwright | Black Friday |
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| Name | Born | Died | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charmaine Cadeau | poet | Placeholder | ||
| Stephen Cain | 1970 | poet | American Standard/Canada Dry | |
| Frank Oliver Call | 1878 | 1956 | poet, travel | Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth |
| Barry Callaghan | 1937 | novelist, journalist | Barrelhouse Kings | |
| Morley Callaghan | 1903 | 1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
| Anne Cameron | 1938 | novelist, poet, short stories | Daughters of Copper Woman | |
| Elspeth Cameron | 1943 | biographer | No Previous Experience | |
| George Frederick Cameron | 1854 | 1885 | poet, lawyer, journalist | Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta) |
| Silver Donald Cameron | 1937 | non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist | Sailing Away From Winter | |
| Natalee Caple | 1970 | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World | |
| Pat Capponi | 1949 | memoirist | Upstairs in the Crazy House | |
| Opal Carew | 1956 | romantic novelist | His To Possess | |
| Louis Carmain | 1983 | novelist | Guano | |
| Bliss Carman | 1861 | 1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
| David Carpenter | 1941 | novelist, poet, essayist | A Hunter's Confession | |
| Emily Carr | 1871 | 1945 | novelist, short stories | Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands |
| Roch Carrier | 1937 | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey | |
| Anne Carson | 1950 | poet | Autobiography of Red | |
| Anne Laurel Carter | 1953 | children's fiction | The Shepherd's Granddaughter | |
| Allan Casey | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada | ||
| Kate Cayley | novelist, dramatist, poet | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova | ||
| Robert Chafe | 1971 | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence | |
| Francis Chalifour | 1977 | creative non-fiction | After | |
| Gillian Chan | 1954 | children's literature | Glory Days and Other Stories | |
| David Chariandy | 1969 | novelist | Soucouyant | |
| Lyne Charlebois | screenwriter | Borderline | ||
| Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix | 1682 | 1761 | historian | Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France |
| Normand Chaurette | 1954 | playwright | Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier | |
| Évelyne de la Chenelière | 1975 | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar | |
| Herménégilde Chiasson | 1946 | poet, playwright | Conversations | |
| Philip Child | 1898 | 1978 | novelist | Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time |
| Anne Chislett | 1942 | playwright | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box | |
| Ins Choi | playwright | Kim's Convenience | ||
| Denise Chong | 1953 | memoirist | The Concubine's Children | |
| Wayson Choy | 1939 | novelist | The Jade Peony, All That Matters | |
| 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 | |
| Eliza Clark | 1963 | novelist | Bite the Stars | |
| Greg Clark | 1892 | 1977 | humorist | War Stories |
| Joan Clark | 1934 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires | |
| Austin Clarke | 1934 | novelist | The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack | |
| George Elliott Clarke | 1960 | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls, George and Rue | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Victor Coleman | poet | |||
| Don Coles | 1928 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World | |
| John Robert Colombo | 1936 | poet, reference book compiler | Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References | |
| Wayde Compton | 1972 | poetry, essays, short fiction | ||
| Bill Conall | novelist, humorist | The Promised Land | ||
| 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 |
| George Ramsay Cook | 1931 | 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 | |
| Douglas Cooper | 1960 | novelist | Amnesia, Delirium | |
| Ann Copeland | 1932 | short stories | The Golden Thread | |
| Carole Corbeil | 1952 | 2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
| Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | 1985 | playwright | Scratch | |
| Thomas B. Costain | 1885 | 1965 | historical fiction, non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice |
| Douglas Coupland | 1961 | novelist | Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma | |
| 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 | |
| Lynn Crosbie | 1963 | poet, novelist | Life Is About Losing Everything | |
| Lorna Crozier | 1948 | poet | Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light | |
| Michael Crummey | 1965 | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Galore | |
| 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 | |
| Richard Cumyn | 1957 | short fiction | Viking Brides, The View from Tamischeira, The Young in Their Country, Famous Last Meals | |
| Peter Cureton | 1965 | 1994 | playwright | Passages |
| Andrea Curtis | creative non-fiction | Into the Blue | ||
| Herb Curtis | 1949 | novelist, humorist | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles | |
| Kayla Czaga | poet | For Your Safety Please Hold On |
D
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Dandurand | b. 1953 | novelist | |
| Cherish D'Angelo, a.k.a. Cheryl Kaye Tardif | b. 1963 | novelist | Lancelot's Lady |
| Louis Dantin | 1865-1945 | poet, critic | Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques |
| Jean-Paul Daoust | b. 1946 | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva |
| Frank Davey | b. 1940 | ||
| Craig Davidson | novelist, short stories | Rust and Bone, Cataract City | |
| Robertson Davies | 1913–1995 | novelist | Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone |
| Lauren B. Davis | b. 1955 | novelist, short stories | |
| Amber Dawn | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa | |
| Frank Parker Day | 1881–1950 | novelist | Rockbound |
| Mazo de la Roche | 1879–1961 | novelist | Jalna |
| Charles de Lint | fantasy | ||
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | short stories, poet | How to Get Along With Women | |
| Sadiqa de Meijer | short stories, poet | Leaving Howe Island | |
| James de Mille | 1833–1880 | novelist | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder |
| Marq de Villiers | b. 1940 | journalist, magazine editor, science | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource |
| Anthony de Sa | novelist, short stories | Barnacle Love | |
| Patrick deWitt | b. 1975 | novelist | The Sisters Brothers |
| Michael Delisle | b. 1959 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père |
| Sandra Dempsey | |||
| Barry Dempster | |||
| Dennis Denisoff | novelist, poet, academic | Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories | |
| Randall Denley | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate | |
| Henriette Dessaulles | 1860-1946 | journalist, diarist | Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881 |
| Alexander Dewdney | computer science, philosophy | ||
| Christopher Dewdney | b. 1951 | ||
| Myrna Dey | novelist, journalist | Extensions | |
| Ranj Dhaliwal | b. 1976 | novelist | Daaku, The Gangster's Life |
| Mary di Michele | b. 1949 | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love |
| Ann Diamond | b. 1951 | poet, novelist, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye |
| Don Dickinson | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | Blue Husbands, The Crew |
| Nicolas Dickner | b. 1972 | novelist, short stories | Nikolski |
| Sandra Djwa | b. 1939 | biography, literary criticism | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page |
| Kildare Dobbs | b. 1923 | short stories | |
| Farzana Doctor | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement | |
| Cory Doctorow | b. 1971 | science fiction | |
| Jeramy Dodds | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds | |
| Bob Dolman | screenwriter | SCTV | |
| Don Domanski | b. 1950 | ||
| Candas Dorsey | b. 1960 | science fiction | |
| Clive Doucet | |||
| Orville Lloyd Douglas | b. 1976 | poet | |
| James Doull | 1918–2001 | philosopher | |
| Glen Downey | b. 1969 | children's literature | |
| Brian Doyle | b. 1935 | young adult fiction | |
| Brian Drader | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals | |
| William Henry Drummond | 1854–1907 | poet | The Habitant |
| Marcel Dubé | |||
| Peter Dubé | novelist, short stories | Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky | |
| Réjean Ducharme | b. 1941 | ||
| Louis Dudek | 1918–2001 | poet | |
| Dave Duncan | b. 1933 | ||
| Sara Jeannette Duncan | 1861–1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
| Warren Dunford | b. 1963 | novelist | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer |
| Kristyn Dunnion | b. 1969 | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Earl | 1915–2005 | novelist, journalist | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass |
| Edith Maude Eaton | 1865–1914 | short stories | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
| Evelyn Eaton | 1902–1983 | novelist, poet | Quietly My Captain Waits |
| Chris Eaton | b.1971 | novelist, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect |
| Winnifred Eaton | 1875–1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
| Kim Echlin | b. 1955 | novelist | The Disappeared |
| David Eddie | novelist, humorist | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control | |
| Esi Edugyan | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues | |
| Modris Eksteins | b. 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 |
| George Elliott | 1923–1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
| Deborah Ellis | non-fiction, young adult fiction | The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop | |
| Sarah Ellis | b. 1952 | children's literature | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks |
| Louis Émond | b. 1969 | novelist | The Manuscript |
| Marina Endicott | b. 1958 | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh |
| Howard Engel | b. 1931 | mysteries | The Suicide Murders |
| Marian Engel | 1933–1985 | novelist | Bear |
| Yves Engler | politics, activist | Playing Left Wing | |
| Sharon English | b. 1965 | short stories | Zero Gravity |
| Steven Erikson | b. 1959 | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series |
| Ann Eriksson | b. 1956 | novelist | In the Hands of Anubis |
| Gloria Escomel | b. 1941 | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion |
| Michael Estok | 1939-1989 | poet | A Plague Year Journal |
| Jon Evans | b. 1973 | novelist | Dark Places |
| Stanley Evans | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emil Ludwig Fackenheim | 1916–2003 | historian, philosopher | |
| Terry Fallis | humorist | The Best Laid Plans | |
| Alain Farah | b. 1979 | novelist, poet | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne |
| Edmundo Farolan | b. 1943 | poet, playwright, novelist | Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer |
| Brian Fawcett | b. 1944 | 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 | c. 1821–1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
| Ian Ferguson | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses | |
| Max Ferguson | b. 1924 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
| Trevor Ferguson | b. 1947 | novelist | |
| Will Ferguson | b. 1964 | humorist, novelist, travel writer | Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419 |
| Jacques Ferron | 1921–1985 | playwright | |
| Madeleine Ferron | c. 1922 - 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
| George Fetherling | |||
| Charlotte Fielden | b. 1932 | ||
| Joy Fielding | b. 1945 | novelist | |
| Connie Fife | b. 1961 | 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 |
| Larry Fineberg | b. 1945 | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve |
| Joe Fiorito | b. 1948 | novelist, columnist, memoirist | The Song Beneath the Ice |
| Sheree Fitch | |||
| 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 | |||
| Anne Fleming | |||
| May Agnes Fleming | 1840–1880 | novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
| Cynthia Flood | b. 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 | b. 1928 | novelist | Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur |
| Dennis Foon | |||
| Charles Foran | b. 1960 | novelist | Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire |
| John-James Ford | |||
| Helen Forrester | b. 1919 | novelist | |
| Dominique Fortier | b. 1972 | novelist | Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer |
| Cecil Foster | |||
| Barbara Fradkin | |||
| Tess Fragoulis | |||
| Brian Francis | novelist | Fruit | |
| Brad Fraser | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | |
| John Anderson Fraser | b. 1944 | ||
| Keath Fraser | |||
| Raymond Fraser | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life | ||
| Sylvia Fraser | b. 1935 | novelist | |
| Louis Fréchette | 1839–1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
| David French | b. 1939 | playwright | |
| Maida Parlow French | novelist, artist, biographer | ||
| Patrick Friesen | |||
| Mark Frutkin | |||
| Northrop Frye | 1912–1991 | critic | Anatomy of Criticism |
| Kim Fu | b. 1987 | novelist | For Today I Am a Boy |
| Robert Fulford | journalist | ||
| Janine Fuller | b. 1958 | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
| Wes Funk | 1969-2015 | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage |
| Nicola Furlong |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Gall | playwright, screenwriter | Wide Awake Hearts | |
| Mavis Gallant | 1922–2014 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
| Steven Galloway | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
| François-Xavier Garneau | 1809–1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
| Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912–1943 | poet | Regards et jeux dans l'espace |
| Hugh Garner | 1913–1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
| Elyse Gasco | b. 1967 | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? |
| Bill Gaston | b. 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite |
| C. E. Gatchalian | b. 1974 | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time |
| Connie Gault | b. 1949 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty |
| Daniel Gawthrop | b. 1963 | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter |
| Pauline Gedge | b. 1945 | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions |
| Camilla Gibb | b. 1968 | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly |
| John Murray Gibbon | 1875–1952 | non-fiction, novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
| Douglas Gibson | b. 1943 | editor, publisher, memoirist | Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others |
| Graeme Gibson | b. 1934 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
| Margaret Gibson | 1948–2006 | novelist, short stories | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
| William Gibson | b. 1948 | science fiction | Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties |
| Sky Gilbert | b. 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 |
| David Gilmour | b. 1949 | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
| Joanna Glass | b. 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 | b. 1953 | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape |
| Douglas Glover | b. 1948 | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N |
| Jacques Godbout | b. 1933 | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine |
| Dave Godfrey | b. 1938 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
| Glenda Goertzen | b. 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1794–1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
| Gabriella Goliger | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped | |
| Leona Gom | b. 1946 | novelist, mysteries, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame |
| Alison Gordon | sports journalist, mysteries | The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball | |
| Charles Gordon | b. 1940 | newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist | The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip |
| Phyllis Gotlieb | b. 1926 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
| Sondra Gotlieb | b. 1936 | newspaper columnist | True Confections |
| Hiromi Goto | b. 1966 | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child |
| John Gould | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions | |
| George R. D. Goulet | b. 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 | b. 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 | b. 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
| Lee Gowan | b. 1961 | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy |
| Barbara Gowdy | b. 1950 | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone |
| Wayne Grady | b. 1948 | novelist, memoir, science | Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café |
| Gwethalyn Graham | 1913–1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
| Neile Graham | b. 1958 | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory |
| Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874–1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
| Jack Granatstein | b. 1939 | historian | |
| E. M. Granger Bennett | d. 1988 | historical fiction | Short of the Glory |
| George Grant | 1918–1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
| Jessica Grant | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise | |
| Charlotte Gray | b. 1948 | novelist, non-fiction | Mrs. King |
| R. W. Gray | short stories | Crisp, Entropic | |
| Robert Joseph Greene | b. 1973 | children's literature, romantic fiction | This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World |
| Ed Greenwood | b. 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms |
| Daniel Grenier | b. 1980 | novelist, short stories | L’année la plus longue |
| Taras Grescoe | creative non-fiction | Sacré Blues | |
| Grey Owl | 1888–1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
| Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894–1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
| Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879–1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
| Brett Josef Grubisic | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities | |
| Germaine Guèvremont | 1893–1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
| Genni Gunn | b. 1949 | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless |
| Kristjana Gunnars | b. 1948 | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps |
| David Gurr | b. 1936 | novelist, playwright | The Ring Master |
| Ralph Gustafson | 1909–1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
| Don Gutteridge | b. 1937 | poet, novelist | |
| Sandra Gwyn | 1935–2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawi Hage | b. 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach, Carnival |
| Joan Haggerty | |||
| Roderick Haig-Brown | b. 1941 | ||
| Arthur Hailey | 1920–2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | The Clockmaker | ||
| Louis Hamelin | b. 1959 | novelist, short stories, literary critic | La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx |
| Ian Hamilton | journalist, mysteries | The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan | |
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | b. 1954 | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger | |
| Lyn Hancock | b. 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 |
| Kevin Hardcastle | b. 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 |
| Alexander Harris | 1805–1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
| Claire Harris | b. 1937 | ||
| Dorothy Joan Harris | b. 1931 | children's literature | |
| Marjorie Harris | b. 1937 | gardening | Seasons of My Garden |
| Michael Harris | b. 1944 | poet | Circus |
| Michael Harris | b. 1948 | journalist | Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall |
| Michael Harris | b. 1980 | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection |
| Keith Harrison | b. 1945 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
| Jill Hartman | |||
| Diana Hartog | b. 1950 | poet, novelist | Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts |
| Kristen den Hartog | |||
| Kenneth J. Harvey | b. 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco |
| Elisabeth Harvor | b. 1936 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart |
| Liedewy Hawke | translator | ||
| Barbara Haworth-Attard | b. 1953 | ||
| Elizabeth Hay | b. 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 |
| Steven Heighton | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer | |
| William C. Heine | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian | |
| Matthew Heiti | novelist, screenwriter, playwright | Son of the Sunshine, The City Still Breathing | |
| Michael Helm | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things | |
| David Helwig | |||
| Maggie Helwig | |||
| Louis Hémon | 1880–1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
| John Herbert | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
| Trevor Herriot | naturalist | River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds | |
| Sheila Heti | novelist, short stories | How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor | |
| Paul Hiebert | 1892–1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
| Tomson Highway | b. 1951 | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| Lawrence Hill | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes | |
| Ernest Hillen | journalist, memoirist | The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies | |
| Robert Hilles | b. 1951 | ||
| Jack Hodgins | b. 1938 | ||
| Susan Holbrook | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes | |
| Arthur Holden | b. 1959 | playwright, television | Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob |
| Clive Holden | poet | Trains of Winnipeg | |
| Claire Holden Rothman | b. 1958 | novelist, short stories | The Heart Specialist, My October |
| Pauline Holdstock | |||
| Greg Hollingshead | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer |
| Margaret Hollingsworth | b. 1942 | playwright | Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands |
| Michael Hollingsworth | b. 1950 | playwright | The History of the Village of the Small Huts |
| Nancy Holmes | b. 1959 | poet | The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree |
| Margaret Lindsay Holton (a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte) |
b. 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 |
| Hugh Hood | 1928–2000 | novelist | The New Age |
| Cornelia Hoogland | b. 1952 | ||
| Nalo Hopkinson | b. 1960 | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads |
| Leah Horlick | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good | |
| Harold Horwood | b. 1923 | ||
| Liz Howard | poet | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | |
| Tanya Huff | fantasy | ||
| Matt Hughes | |||
| Helen Humphreys | b. 1961 | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden |
| Aislinn Hunter | |||
| Bruce Hunter | |||
| Catherine Hunter | |||
| Maureen Hunter | |||
| Nancy Huston | b. 1953 | novelist, translator | |
| Hazel Hutchins | |||
| Bruce Hutchison | |||
| Joel Thomas Hynes | b. 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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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ameer Idreis | b. 1999 | novelist | The Ewald Series |
| Michael Ignatieff | b. 1947 | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging |
| George K. Ilsley | b. 1958 | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug |
| Neamat Imam | b. 1971 | novelist | The Black Coat |
| Susan Ioannou | b. 1944 | poet | Clarity Between Clouds |
| Anosh Irani | b. 1974 | novelist | The Song of Kahunsha |
| Ann Ireland | b. 1953 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
| Adel Iskandar | b. 1977 | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism |
| Frances Itani | b. 1942 | novelist | Deafening |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donald Jack | 1924–2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
| Suzanne Jacob | b. 1953 | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu |
| Candice James | b. 1948 | Poet Laureate, New Westminster, BC 2010 - 2016 | A Split In The Water, Inner Heart A Journey, Bridges and Clouds, Midnight Embers - A Book of Sonnets |
| Anna Brownell Jameson | 1794–1860 | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada | |
| J. Robert Janes | b. 1932 | mysteries | |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | b. 1955 | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet |
| Paulette Jiles | b. 1943 | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women |
| K.V. Johansen | b. 1968 | fantasy, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus |
| Linda Johns | b. 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 |
| Julie Johnston | children's/young adult literature | Adam and Eve and Pinch Me | |
| Wayne Johnston | b. 1958 | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion |
| Andy Jones | b. 1948 | playwright, screenwriter | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood |
| D. G. Jones | 1929-2016 | poet, translator | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth |
| Terry Jordan | short stories | It's a Hard Cow |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elaine Kalman Naves | 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 | b. 1954 | Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies | |
| Adeena Karasick | b. 1965 | poet | This Poem |
| Ibi Kaslik | b. 1973 | novelist | Skinny, The Angel Riots |
| Welwyn Wilton Katz | |||
| Guy Gavriel Kay | b. 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 | b. 1937 | ||
| 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 |
| M. T. Kelly | b. 1946 | novelist | A Dream Like Mine |
| Sean Kelly | b. 1940 | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon |
| Olivier Kemeid | b. 1975 | playwright | L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés |
| Susan Kerslake | b. 1943 | novelist, short stories | Middlewatch, The Book of Fears |
| Joseph Kertes | b. 1951 | novelist, journalist | Winter Tulips, Gratitude |
| Crawford Kilian | |||
| Crad Kilodney | b. 1948 | 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 | b. 1943 | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water |
| Mark Kingwell | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium | |
| W.P. Kinsella | b. 1935 | novelist, short stories | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
| William Kirby | 1817–1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
| Barbara Klar | b. 1966 | poet | The Night You Called Me a Shadow |
| Sarah Klassen | b. 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 | |
| Raymond Knister | |||
| Alexander Knox | 1907–1995 | actor, novelist | |
| Tamai Kobayashi | b. 1965 | short stories, novelist | Prairie Ostrich |
| Eric Koch | 1919 | novelist | |
| Joy Kogawa | b. 1935 | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka |
| Sergio Kokis | b. 1944 | novelist, poet, short stories | Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac |
| Gordon Korman | |||
| Myrna Kostash | |||
| Shane Koyczan | |||
| Greg Kramer | 1961-2013 | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally |
| Philip Kreiner | b. 1950 | novelist, short stories | People Like Us in a Place Like This |
| Henry Kreisel | 1922–1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
| John Krizanc | b. 1956 | playwright | Tamara |
| Robert Kroetsch | 1927–2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
| Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | b. 1965 | novelist, short stories | Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things |
| Janice Kulyk Keefer | b. 1952 | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library |
| Michael Kusugak | b. 1948 | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog |
| Lydia Kwa | b. 1959 | fiction, poet | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonnet L'Abbé | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe | |
| Richard Labonté | critic, anthologist | First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series | |
| Rosa Labordé | playwright | Léo | |
| Marie-Sissi Labrèche | b. 1969 | screenwriter, novelist | Borderline |
| Edward A. Lacey | 1988-1995 | poet | The Forms of Life |
| Ben Ladouceur | b. 1987 | poet | Otter |
| Steven Laffoley | b. 1965 | non-fiction, novelist | Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo |
| Larissa Lai | b. 1967 | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand |
| Vincent Lam | b. 1974 | medicine, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Headmaster's Wager |
| Tim Lander | b. 1938 | poet | Street Heart Poems |
| Patrick Lane | b. 1939 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
| Marisa Lankester | b. 1963 | writer | Dangerous Odds |
| Annette Lapointe | b. 1978 | novelist | Stolen |
| Evelyn Lau | b. 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 |
| Karen Lawrence | b. 1951 | novelist, poetry, short stories | The Life of Helen Alone |
| Mary Lawson | b. 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 |
| Perrine Leblanc | b. 1980 | novelist | L'homme blanc, Malabourg |
| Félix Leclerc | 1914-1988 | writer, poet, singer-songwriter | Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers |
| Dennis Lee | b. 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 | b. 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
| Nancy Lee | b. 1970 | short stories | Dead Girls |
| Ronald Lee | b. 1934 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
| Sky Lee | b. 1952 | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe |
| Mathyas Lefebure | novelist | D'où viens tu, berger? | |
| Mark Leiren-Young | b. 1962 | playwright | Blueprints from Space |
| Roger Lemelin | 1919–1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
| John Lent | 1948–2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
| Douglas LePan | 1914–1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter |
| Catherine Leroux | b. 1979 | novelist, short stories | Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria |
| Pierre Leroux | b.1958 | novelist | Le Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur |
| Alex Leslie | poet, short stories | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You | |
| Norman Levine | 1923–2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
| Shar Levine | b. 1953 | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope |
| Naomi K. Lewis | 1976– | novelist, non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist |
| Wyndham Lewis | 1882–1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
| Michael Lista | b. 1983 | poet | Bloom |
| Ashley Little | b. 1983 | children's, young adult literature | The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang |
| Jean Little | b. 1932 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909–1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
| Billie Livingston | b.1965 | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes |
| Douglas Lochhead | b. 1922 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
| Lynette Loeppky | memoirist | Cease | |
| Kevin Loring | b. 1974 | playwright | Where the Blood Mixes |
| Jennifer LoveGrove | poet, novelist | Watch How We Walk | |
| Malcolm Lowry | 1909–1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
| Pat Lowther | 1935–1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
| Jack Ludwig | b. 1922 | novelist, short stories, sportswriter | Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration |
| Pearl Luke | b. 1958 | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee |
| Janet Lunn | b. 1928 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
| Richard Lush | b. 1934 | poet | A Manual for Lying Down |
| Annabel Lyon | b. 1970 | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean |
| Eswyn Lyster | 1923–2009 | war brides, war | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rozena Maart | b. 1962 | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle |
| Patrick MacAdam | Gold Medal Misfits | ||
| Agnes Maule Machar | |||
| Ann-Marie MacDonald | b. 1958 | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) |
| Bryden MacDonald | b. 1960 | playwright | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath |
| D. R. MacDonald | novelist, short stories | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart | |
| Hugh MacDonald | |||
| Jake MacDonald | |||
| Janice MacDonald | b. 1959 | novelist, children's literature, short stories | Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out |
| Maggie MacDonald | |||
| Gwendolyn MacEwen | 1941–1987 | poet | |
| Roy MacGregor | journalist, non-fiction | Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey | |
| Linden MacIntyre | b. 1943 | novelist, journalist | The Bishop's Man, Causeway |
| Rory Maclean | b. 1954 | ||
| Hugh MacLennan | 1907–1990 | novelist, essayist | Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising |
| Matt MacLennan | |||
| Michael MacLennan | |||
| Alexander MacLeod | short stories | Light Lifting | |
| Alistair MacLeod | 1936-2014 | novelist, short stories | No Great Mischief |
| Elizabeth Macleod | biographer | ||
| Joan MacLeod | b. 1954 | playwright | Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl |
| Rick Maddocks | b. 1970 | short stories | Sputnik Diner |
| Adriana Maggs | screenwriter | Grown Up Movie Star | |
| Randall Maggs | poet | Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems | |
| Anand Mahadevan | b. 1979 | novelist | The Strike |
| Rabindranath Maharaj | b. 1955 | novelist, short stories | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice |
| Louise Maheux-Forcier | b. 1929 | novelist, radio and television drama | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
| Antonine Maillet | b. 1929 | novelist, playwright | La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charette |
| André Major | b. 1942 | poet, novelist | Les Rescapés |
| Kevin Major | b. 1949 | ||
| Pasha Malla | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method | |
| 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 | b. 1960 | poet, novelist | |
| Lee Maracle | b. 1950 | poet, novelist | |
| Blaine Marchand | b. 1949 | poetry, non-fiction, novelist | A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives |
| Jovette Marchessault | 1938-2012 | novelist, playwright | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien |
| Robert Marinier | b. 1954 | playwright, television | L'Insomnie, Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville |
| Daphne Marlatt | b. 1942 | ||
| Paul Marlowe | novelist, short stories | Sporeville | |
| John Marlyn | 1912–1985 | ||
| Nicole Markotic | |||
| Tom Marshall | 1938-1993 | poet, novelist, critic | Adele at the End of the Day |
| Émile Martel | b. 1941 | poet, short stories | Pour orchestre et poète seul |
| Yann Martel | b. 1963 | novelist, short stories | Life of Pi |
| Camille Martin | b. 1956 | poet, collage artist | Sonnets, Looms |
| Claire Martin | 1914-2014 | La joue droite | |
| Paul Nicholas Mason | b. 1958 | novelist, playwright | Battered Soles, The Red Dress |
| Elan Mastai | screenwriter, novelist | The F Word, All Our Wrong Todays | |
| Carol Matas | b. 1949 | novelist | After the War, Daniel's Story |
| Shirlee Smith Matheson | |||
| John Bentley Mays | 1941-2016 | journalist, novelist, memoirist | In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood |
| Susan Mayse | b. 1948 | creative non-fiction | Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web |
| Tawiah M'carthy | playwright | Obaaberima | |
| Colin McAdam | novelist | Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth | |
| Steve McCaffery | |||
| Nellie McClung | journalist | ||
| Derek McCormack | b. 1969 | novelist, short stories | Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly |
| Eric McCormack | b. 1938 | novelist | The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
| Edward McCourt | 1907–1972 | novelist, non-fiction | Music at the Close |
| John McCrae | 1872–1918 | poet | "In Flanders' Fields" |
| Derek McCulloch | b. 1964 | graphic novelist, children's literature | Stagger Lee |
| Colin McDougall | 1917–1984 | novelist | Execution |
| Franklin D. McDowell | 1888–1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
| Jaimie McEvoy | b. 1965 | historian | |
| David McFadden | |||
| Donna McFarlane | b. 1958 | novelist | Division of Surgery |
| Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon) | 1902–1977 | children's literature | The Hardy Boys |
| Sheryl McFarlane | b. 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 |
| Edgar McInnis | 1899-1973 | poet, historian | The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War |
| James McIntyre | 1827–1906 | poet | |
| Ami McKay | The Birth House | ||
| Don McKay | poet, essayist | ||
| Leo McKay, Jr. | b. 1964 | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six, Like This |
| Ian McLachlan | novelist, playwright | The Seventh Hexagram | |
| Stuart McLean | b. 1948 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
| Marshall McLuhan | 1911–1980 | academic | |
| Susan McMaster | |||
| Sylvia McNicoll | |||
| Christopher Meades | b. 1974 | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary |
| John Melady | |||
| Lee Mellor | b.1982 | true crime, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder |
| Judith Merril | 1923 - 1997 | science fiction, editor | |
| Edmund Metatawabin | memoirist | Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History | |
| John Metcalf | b. 1938 | ||
| Sarah Mian | poet, novelist, short stories | When the Saints | |
| Anne Michaels | poet, novelist | Fugitive Pieces | |
| Sean Michaels | b. 1982 | novelist, music critic | Us Conductors |
| Andrée A. Michaud | b. 1957 | novelist, playwright | Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée |
| Roy Miki | |||
| Ron Miksha | b. 1954 | Bad Beekeeping | |
| Eleanor Millard | b. 1942 | novelist, memoirist, short stories | River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow |
| John Miller | b. 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 | b. 1964 | novelist, poet, songwriter | Vamp |
| Rohinton Mistry | b. 1952 | novelist | Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance |
| Jared Mitchell | |||
| W.O. Mitchell | 1914–1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
| Elliott Moglica | b. 1971 | poet, novelist | The Proton Man: Justin Trudeau, The Protonic Guardian: Justin Trudeau |
| 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 | b. 1952 | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series |
| Lisa Moore | short stories, novelist | ||
| Jeffrey Moore | novelist | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club | |
| Shani Mootoo | b. 1958 | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night |
| Edythe Morahan de Lauzon | poet | ||
| Pierre Morency | b. 1942 | poet, playwright | |
| Bernice Morgan | |||
| Dwayne Morgan | |||
| Grace Jones Morgan | 1884–1977 | pulp | |
| Jeffrey Morgan | rock critic, authorized biographer | 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 | |
| Kim Moritsugu | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure | |
| Donna Morrissey | |||
| Kim Morrissey | b. 1956 | ||
| Garry Thomas Morse | poet, novelist | Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour | |
| Colin Morton | |||
| Marie Moser | b. 1948 | novelist, short stories | Counterpoint |
| Daniel David Moses | poet and playwright | ||
| Tara Moss | b. 1973 | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess |
| Erin Mouré | poet | ||
| Farley Mowat | b. 1921 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
| Anne Mullens | creative non-fiction | Timely Death | |
| Claire Mulligan | novelist, short stories | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | |
| Alice Munro | b. 1931 | 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 | b. 1945 | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess |
| George Murray | b. 1971 | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms |
| John Murrell | playwright | ||
| Susan Musgrave | b. 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 |
N
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ira Nadel | b. 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 |
| Hasan Namir | b. 1987 | novelist | God in Pink |
| Shenaaz Nanji | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions | |
| Akhtar Naraghi | novelist, poet | The Big Green House | |
| Angela Narth | b. 1946 | children's literature, non-fiction | Simon With Two Left Feet |
| Riel Nason | young adult novelist | The Town That Drowned | |
| Michael Nathanson | playwright | Talk | |
| Émile Nelligan | 1879–1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
| Max Nemni | political scientist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed | |
| Monique Nemni | linguist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed | |
| Pierre Nepveu | b. 1946 | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques |
| John Newlove | 1938–2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
| Peter C. Newman | b. 1929 | journalist | The Canadian Establishment |
| bpNichol | 1944–1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
| Hal Niedzviecki | b. 1971 | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too |
| Susin Nielsen | children's and young adult literature | The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen | |
| Fraser Nixon | crime novelist | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head | |
| Francine Noël | b. 1945 | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie |
| Henri Nouwen | 1932–1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
| Mary Novik | b. 1945 | novelist | Conceit |
| Alden Nowlan | 1933–1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I’m a Stranger Here Myself |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheldon Oberman | 1949–2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
| Theodore Odrach | 1912–1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror |
| Alix Ohlin | novelist, short stories | Inside, Signs and Wonders | |
| Alexandra Oliver | poet | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway | |
| Bryan Lee O'Malley | b. 1979 | graphic novelist | Scott Pilgrim |
| Heather O'Neill | novelist | Lullabies for Little Criminals | |
| Michael Ondaatje | b. 1943 | novelist, poet | The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost |
| Christopher Ondaatje | b. 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 |
| Kenneth Oppel | b. 1967 | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga |
| Stephen Osborne | b. 1947 | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World |
| 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 | b. 1930 | poet, novelist | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures |
P
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| P. K. Page | 1916-2010 | poet | |
| Basil Papademos | b. 1957 | erotica | Mount Royal |
| Aaron Paquette | young adult literature, fantasy | Lightfinder | |
| Arleen Paré | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains | |
| Erna Paris | literary non-fiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History | |
| Gilbert Parker | 1862-1932 | novelist | The Seats of the Mighty, The Lane that Had No Turning |
| Kevin Patterson | b. 1964 | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between |
| Michael Patterson | |||
| Raymond M. Patterson | |||
| Philip Kevin Paul | poet | Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger | |
| Soraya Peerbaye | poet, dramatist | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell | |
| Francine Pelletier | science fiction, young adult literature | ||
| Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | b. 1971 | children's, memoirist, academic | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant |
| Louise Penny | b. 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 | |
| Len Peterson | |||
| Geneviève Pettersen | novelist, blogger | La déesse des mouches à feu | |
| Wendy Phillips | children's literature | Fishtailing | |
| Lorne Pierce | 1890–1961 | literary critic | |
| Joseph Jomo Pierre | playwright | Shakespeare's Nigga | |
| Joseph Pivato | b. 1946- | literary critic | Echo: Essays on Other Literature |
| Michel Pleau | b. 1964 | poet | La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit |
| Casey Plett | short stories | A Safe Girl to Love | |
| Craig Poile | poet | First Crack, True Concessions | |
| Daniel Poliquin | |||
| Sharon Pollock | b. 1936 | ||
| Michael Poole | non-fiction | Romancing Mary Jane | |
| Liza Potvin | b. 1958 | non-fiction | White Lies (for my mother) |
| Jacques Poulin | b. 1937 | novelist | Volkswagen Blues |
| Christine Pountney | b. 1971 | novelist | Last Chance Texaco |
| Joël Pourbaix | b. 1958 | poet | Le mal du pays est un art oublié |
| B.W. Powe | philosopher | A Canada of Light | |
| Kerry Lee Powell | poet, short stories | The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush | |
| E. J. Pratt | 1883–1964 | poet | |
| Steven Price | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness | |
| Robert Priest | poet | ||
| Kate Pullinger | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing | |
| Al Purdy | 1918-2000 | poet | |
| Andrew Pyper | b. 1968 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |
Q
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | |
| Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be | |
| Darlene Quaife | b. 1948 | novelist | Bone Bird |
| Andy Quan | b. 1969 | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions |
| Paul Quarrington | 1953–2009 | novelist, screenwriter | Whale Music, King Leary |
| Meredith Quartermain | b. 1950 | poet, fiction | Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet |
| Pascale Quiviger | b. 1969 | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Rachman | 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 | novelist, poet, short stories | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance | |
| Nasrin Rahimieh | living | Persian literature | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage |
| Gurcharan Rampuri | |||
| Edeet Ravel | b. 1955 | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers |
| Angela Rawlings | |||
| Mark A. Rayner | |||
| James Reaney | 1926–2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's |
| Duke Redbird | b. 1939 | poet, academic, journalist | |
| Michael Redhill | novelist, short stories | Martin Sloane | |
| Iain Reid | novelist, memoirist | The Truth About Luck | |
| Gayla Reid | |||
| Raziel Reid | young adult novelist | When Everything Feels Like the Movies | |
| Stephen Reid | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole | |
| Kati Rekai | b. 1921 | The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece | |
| Shane Rhodes | poet | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery | |
| François Ricard | b. 1947 | biographer, essayist | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
| Nino Ricci | b. 1959 | novelist | Lives of the Saints |
| David Adams Richards | b. 1950 | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street |
| Evelyn M. Richardson | 1902–1976 | novelist | Desired Haven |
| John Richardson | 1796–1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
| Edward Riche | b. 1961 | novelist, screenwriter | Rare Birds |
| Daniel Richler | b. 1957 | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow |
| Emma Richler | b. 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 | b. 1957 | 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 | |
| Tanis Rideout | poet, novelist | Above All Things | |
| Sharon Riis | b. 1947 | 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 | |||
| Paul William Roberts | |||
| Bill Robertson | screenwriter | The Events Leading Up to My Death, Apartment Hunting | |
| Lisa Robertson | poet | ||
| Margaret Murray Robertson | 1823–1897 | novelist | |
| Eden Robinson | novelist | ||
| J. Jill Robinson | b. 1955 | short stories, creative non-fiction | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire |
| Peter Robinson | b. 1950 | mystery | |
| Harriet A. Roche | 1835—1921 | pioneer, traveler | On Trek in the Transvaal |
| Ajmer Rode | poet, playwright, translator | ||
| Spider Robinson | b. 1948 | science fiction, humorist | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon |
| Richard Rohmer | b. 1924 | ||
| Ian Rogers | b. 1976 | supernatural and horror fiction | Every House Is Haunted |
| Linda Rogers | |||
| Leon Rooke | b. 1934 | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog |
| Patrick Roscoe | novelist, short stories | Birthmarks, God's Peculiar Care | |
| Rachel Rose | b. 1970 | poet | Song and Spectacle |
| Simon Rose | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy | |
| Rebecca Rosenblum | b. 1978 | short stories | Once |
| Leonard Rosmarin | novelist | ||
| Sinclair Ross | 1908–1996 | short stories, novelist | As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial |
| Nancy-Gay Rotstein | poet, novelist | ||
| Jeffrey Round | poet, mysteries | The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain | |
| André Roy | b. 1944 | poet, critic | Action writing |
| Gabrielle Roy | 1909–1983 | novelist | The Tin Flute, Children of My Heart |
| Holley Rubinsky | b. 1943 | 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 | b. 1976 | novelist | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective |
| Elizabeth Ruth | b.1968 | novelist | Smoke |
| 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 |
S
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Sagara | 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 | novelist | The Electrical Field | |
| Trish Salah | poet | Wanting in Arabic | |
| G. Herbert Sallans | 1895–1960 | novelist | Little Man |
| Rick Salutin | b. 1942 | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith |
| Laura G. Salverson | 1890–1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
| Shelly Sanders | b. 1964 | novelist, journalist | The Rachel Trilogy |
| Robyn Sarah | b. 1949 | poetry, short stories | Promise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me |
| Mairuth Sarsfield | 1925-2013 | novelist | No Crystal Stair |
| Jocelyne Saucier | b. 1948 | novelist | Il pleuvait des oiseaux |
| John Ralston Saul | b. 1947 | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization |
| Gloria Sawai | 1932–2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
| Robert J. Sawyer | b. 1960 | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax, Calculating God, Flashforward, Rollback |
| Alan Scarfe, pseudonym Clanash Farjeon | b. 1946 | novelist | A Handbook for Attendants on the Insane: the autobiography of Jack the Ripper as revealed to Clanash Farjeon, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Vampires of 9/11, Vampires of the Holy Spirit |
| Jacob Scheier | b. 1980 | poet | More to Keep Us Warm |
| Libby Scheier | 1946–2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
| Diane Schoemperlen | b. 1954 | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion |
| Stephen Scobie | b. 1943 | poet | McAlmon's Chinese Opera |
| Anakana Schofield | novelist | Malarky | |
| Adam Lewis Schroeder | novelist, short stories | In the Fabled East | |
| Andreas Schroeder | |||
| Gregory Scofield | b. 1966 | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel |
| Chris Scott | b. 1945 | novelist | Antichthon, Jack |
| Duncan Campbell Scott | 1862–1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
| Frank Scott | 1899–1985 | poet | |
| Gail Scott | b. 1945 | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error |
| Richard Scrimger | children's writer, novelist | ||
| Djanet Sears | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | |
| Benjamin Sehene | b. 1959 | novelist, essayist, political writer | |
| Sarah Selecky | short stories | This Cake Is for the Party | |
| Bev Sellars | memoirist | They Called Me Number One | |
| Shyam Selvadurai | novelist | Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens | |
| Bruce Serafin | d. 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 | |||
| Leanne Shapton | graphic novelist | Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry | |
| Sarah Sheard | |||
| Murphy O. Shewchuk | b. 1943 | writer, photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails - 2006, Coquihalla Trips and Trails - 2007, Cariboo Trips and Trails - 2008 |
| Francis Sherman | 1871–1926 | poet | |
| Valerie Sherrard | 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 | |||
| Vivek Shraya | b. 1981 | short stories | God Loves Hair |
| Maggie Siggins | historian, biographies | Riel | |
| Antanas Sileika | |||
| Ana Siljak | historian | Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World | |
| Makeda Silvera | The Heart Does Not Bend | ||
| Louise Simard | |||
| Bren Simmers | b. 1976 | poet | Night Gears |
| Merilyn Simonds | creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror, The Paradise Project | |
| Colin Simpson | |||
| Andy Sinclair | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons | |
| Jaspreet Singh | |||
| 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 | b. 1980 | novelist, poet | The Sentimentalists |
| Marsha Skrypuch | b. 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 | poet | Hooked | |
| Elizabeth Smart | 1913–1986 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | |
| Jean Edward Smith | |||
| Michael V. Smith | novelist | Cumberland | |
| Neil Smith | short stories | Bang Crunch | |
| Russell Smith | b. 1963 | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent |
| Carrie Snyder | short stories | Hair Hat, The Juliet Stories | |
| Mary Soderstrom | 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 | b. 1968 | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance |
| Madeline Sonik | |||
| J. Dewey Soper | 1893–1982 | naturalist | |
| Carolyn Marie Souaid | b. 1959 | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood |
| Gaétan Soucy | b. 1958 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
| Raymond Souster | b. 1921 | poet | |
| Esta Spalding | |||
| Linda Spalding | The Follow,The Purchase | ||
| Rae Spoon | songwriter, short stories | First Spring Grass Fire | |
| Birk Sproxton | 1943-2007 | ||
| Eva Stachniak | b. 1952 | novelist | Necessary Lies, The Winter Garden |
| Edna Staebler | 1906–2006 | journalist, Mennonite cooking | Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series |
| Harold Standish | 1919–1972 | poet, novelist | |
| Robert Stead | 1880–1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
| John Steffler | b. 1947 | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright |
| Fred Stenson | |||
| Arran Stephens | The Compassionate Diet | ||
| Richard Stevenson | |||
| Shannon Stewart | poet, children's literature | ||
| Walter Stewart | 1941–2004 | journalist, editor | |
| Bill Stilwell | |||
| Kathy Stinson | |||
| Cassie Stocks | novelist | Dance, Gladys, Dance | |
| Aryeh Lev Stollman | novelist, short stories | The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul | |
| Anne Stone | Indelible | ||
| Allan Stratton | b. 1951 | playwright | |
| Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer | screenwriter, novelist | ||
| Cordelia Strube | novelist, dramatist | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon | |
| Alan Sullivan | 1868–1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
| Moez Surani | poet | Reticent Bodies | |
| Joel A. Sutherland | novelist, short stories | Frozen Blood | |
| David Suzuki | b. 1936 | scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host | The Sacred Balance, Genethics, The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future |
| Mary Swan | novelist, short stories | The Boys in the Trees | |
| Susan Swan | |||
| Anna Swanson | poet | The Nights Also | |
| Robert Sward | |||
| Margaret Sweatman | b. 1953 | novelist | Fox, The Players |
| George Swede | |||
| Alastair Sweeny | |||
| Guy Sylvestre | journalist, critic | ||
| Harry L. Symons | 1892-1962 | novelist, humorist | Ojibway Melody |
| Scott Symons | 1933-2009 | novelist, journalist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square |
| Shawn Syms | b. 1970 | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar |
| Anne Szumigalski | 1922–1999 | poet | Voice |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proma Tagore | poet, editor, literary critic | language is not the only thing that breaks | |
| Kenneth Tam | b. 1984 | novelist | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series |
| Mariko Tamaki | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist | Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire | |
| Shelley Tanaka | editor, children's non-fiction | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic | |
| Jordan Tannahill | playwright | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company | |
| Cheryl Kaye Tardif | b. 1963 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | Whale Song, The River, Divine Intervention, Skeletons in the Closet, Lancelot's Lady (writing as Cherish D'Angelo) |
| Jules-Paul Tardivel | |||
| Gladys Taylor | 1917-2015 | novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor | Pine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom |
| Timothy Taylor | novelist, short stories | Stanley Park | |
| Ningeokuluk Teevee | b. 1963 | children's literature | Alego |
| Wayne Tefs | 1947-2014 | ||
| Charles Templeton | 1915–2001 | ||
| John Terpstra | poet | ||
| Bill Terry | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven | |
| Souvankham Thammavongsa | b. 1978 | poet | Small Arguments, Light |
| Yasuko Thanh | novelist, short stories | Floating Like the Dead | |
| Denis Thériault | |||
| Yves Thériault | 1915–1983 | novelist, short stories | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
| Sharon Thesen | b. 1946 | poet | The Good Bacteria |
| Serge Patrice Thibodeau | b. 1959 | poet | Le Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague |
| Madeleine Thien | short stories, novelist | Simple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter | |
| Audrey Thomas | b. 1935 | novelist | Songs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa |
| Joan Thomas | novelist | Reading by Lighting, Curiosity, The Opening Sky | |
| John Thompson | |||
| Peggy Thompson | screenwriter | The Lotus Eaters, Better Than Chocolate | |
| Jan Thornhill | b. 1955 | children's literature, science | I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC |
| Elizabeth Thornton | |||
| Russell Thornton | poet | House Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | |
| Kim Thúy | b. 1968 | novelist | Ru |
| Miriam Toews | novelist | A Complicated Kindness, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows | |
| Morley Torgov | b. 1927 | ||
| Lola Lemire Tostevin | |||
| Matthew J. Trafford | short stories | The Divinity Gene | |
| Catharine Parr Traill | 1802–1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
| Rhea Tregebov | b. 1953 | poet | Remembering History |
| Lise Tremblay | |||
| Michel Tremblay | b. 1942 | playwright | Les Belles-soeurs |
| Sylvain Trudel | novelist | ||
| Stuart Trueman | 1911-1995 | journalist, humorist, historian | You're Only as Old as You Act |
| Karen X. Tulchinsky | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature | |
| Élise Turcotte | |||
| Pierre Turgeon | b. 1947 | novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher | The First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983 |
| Chris Turner | b. 1973 | non-fiction | Planet Simpson, The Geography of Hope |
| Michael Turner | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Uguay | 1955–1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
| Priscilla Uppal | b. 1974 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
| Jane Urquhart | b. 1949 | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers |
| Geoffrey Ursell | b. 1943 | novelist, playwright, poet | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie |
| David UU (David W. Harris) | 1948–1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. D. Valgardson | b. 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 | b. 1962 | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf |
| Richard Van Camp | b. 1971 | novelist, short stories, children's literature | The Lesser Blessed |
| Guy Vanderhaeghe | b. 1951 | novelist, short stories | The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing |
| Aritha Van Herk | b. 1954 | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address |
| A. E. van Vogt | 1912–2000 | science fiction | Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom |
| Jean Vanier | b. 1928 | theologian | Becoming Human |
| M. G. Vassanji | b. 1950- | novelist | The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall |
| R. M. Vaughan | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells | |
| Guillermo Verdecchia | b. 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 | b. 1973 | poet | Burn |
| Katherena Vermette | poet, children's literature | North End Love Songs | |
| Gilles Vigneault | b. 1928 | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé |
| Margaret Visser | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate | |
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | b. 1947 | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères |
| Garth Von Buchholz | b. 1968 | poetry, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems |
| Dan Vyleta | b. 1974 | novelist, historian | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Wadden | non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan | |
| Richard Wagamese | b. 1955 | novelist | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk |
| Colleen Wagner | b. 1949 | playwright | The Monument |
| Fred Wah | b. 1939 | poet, novelist | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Tom Walmsley | b. 1948 | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin |
| Eric Walters | b. 1957 | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run |
| John Leigh Walters | creative non-fiction | A Very Capable Life | |
| Russell Wangersky | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica | |
| Ryan Ward | screenwriter | Son of the Sunshine | |
| Sabrina Ward Harrison | b. 1975 | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open |
| Dianne Warren | b. 1950 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water |
| David Watmough | b. 1926 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
| Sheila Watson | 1909–1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
| Alison Watt | b. 1957 | creative non-fiction, poet | The Last Island |
| Thomas Waugh | b. 1948 | academic, art and film historian | Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection |
| Alison Wearing | b. 1967 | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah |
| Barry Webster | b. 1961 | novels, short stories; magic realism | The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones |
| John Weier | b. 1949 | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree |
| Steve Weiner | novelist | The Museum of Love | |
| William Weintraub | |||
| 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 | children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
| Zachariah Wells | b. 1976 | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
| Andrew Westoll | science, travel, non-fiction | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary | |
| Robert Paul Weston | b. 1975 | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City |
| Michael Wex | b. 1954 | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
| Dawud Wharnsby | b. 1972 | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
| Thomas Wharton | b. 1963 | novelist | Salamander, Icefields |
| Sherry White | screenwriter | Crackie, Down to the Dirt | |
| William Whitehead | b. 1931 | documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
| Zoe Whittall | |||
| Rudy Wiebe | b. 1934 | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear |
| Helen Waldstein Wilkes | creative non-fiction | Letters from the Lost | |
| Fred Williams | 1863-1944 | journalism, history | The Canadian Book of Days |
| Alan R. Wilson | novels, poetry | Before the Flood | |
| Douglas Wilson | 1950-1992 | novelist, poet | Labour of Love |
| Eric Wilson | b. 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 | b. 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 | b. 1953 | science fiction | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin |
| Sheri-D Wilson | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder | |
| Carol Windley | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling |
| Rob Winger | poet | Muybridge's Horse | |
| Kathleen Winter | novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel | |
| Michael Winter | b. 1965 | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why |
| Kari-Lynn Winters | b. 1969 | children's literature, dramatist | Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk |
| Adele Wiseman | 1928–1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
| Alan Woo | 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 | b. 1969 | novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
| Lance Woolaver | b. 1948 | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange |
| Eric Wright | b. 1929 | 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 | b. 1937 | novelist | Clara Callan |
| Tim Wynne-Jones | b. 1948 | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
| Tim Wynveen | novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |
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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiaowen Zeng | journalist, short stories |
Y
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Yanofsky | novelist | Jacob's Ladder | |
| Pierre Yergeau | b. 1957 | novelist | L'écrivain public |
| Ying Chen | b. 1961 | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile |
| Jean Yoon | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project | |
| Alissa York | b. 1970 | novelist, short stories | Effigy |
| Elwy Yost | 1925-2011 | mysteries | White Shadows |
| Graham Yost | b. 1959 | screenwriter | Speed |
| David Young | b. 1946 | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn |
| d'bi young | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story | |
| Ian Young | b. 1945 | poetry, non-fiction, journalist | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature |
| Scott Young | 1918–2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mysteries | A Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate |
Z
| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Zaremba | b. 1930 | mysteries | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect |
| Robert Zend | 1929-1985 | poet, fiction, multimedia artist | Daymares, Oāb |
| David Zieroth | b. 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 |
| Rachel Zolf | poet | Human Resources, Masque | |
| Carolyn Zonailo | b. 1947 | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems |
| Jan Zwicky | b. 1955 | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |
See also
- 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 Quebec writers
- List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
- List of famous Canadians
- Lists of authors
Further reading
- 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
- Heath, Jeffrey M (1991), Profiles in Canadian Literature, Volume 7, Dundurn Press, ISBN 1-55002-145-1
External links
- Introduction - Canadian Writers - Library and Archives Canada
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