List of Canadian writers

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

A

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Irving Abella	b. 1940	historian	None is Too Many
Hugh Abercrombie	1890–1965	playwright	Auld Lang Syne
Mark Abley	b. 1955	poet, journalist	Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Carolyn Abraham	b. 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	b. 1952	playwright, novelist, journalist
Janice Acoose	b. 1954	journalist	Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak
Milton Acorn	1923–1986	poet	The Island Means Minago
Ken Adachi	1929–1989	historian, critic	The Enemy That Never Was
Evan Adams	b. 1966	dramatist	Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River
Ian Adams	b. 1937	novelist, non-fiction	Agent of Influence
Gil Adamson		novelist, short stories, poetry	The Outlander
Caroline Adderson	b. 1963	novelist, short stories	Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice
Marie-Célie Agnant	b. 1953	poet, novelist	Le Silence comme le sang
Freda Ahenakew	b. 1932	linguist, children's literature
Kelley Aitken		short stories	Love in a Warm Climate
Will Aitken		novelist, journalist	Terre Haute, Realia
Donald Akenson	b. 1941	novelist, historian
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm		poet	My Heart is a Stray Bullet
Linda Aksomitis	b. 1954	children's literature	Adeline's Dream
Kamal Al-Solaylee		journalist	Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Donald Alarie	b.1945	poet	Jérôme et les mots
Scott Albert	b. 1975	novelist, screenwriter
Robert Arthur Alexie		novelist	Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian
André Alexis	b. 1957	novelist, journalist, short stories	Childhood, Asylum
Edna Alford		poet
Sandra Alland		poet, journalist
Donna Allard		poet
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe)	b. 1941	romantic novels, expert on child abuse
Grant Allen	1848–1899	science writer, novelist	The Woman Who Did
Harper Allen		romantic fiction
Lillian Allen	b. 1951	poet	Rhythm an' Hardtimes
Ralph Allen	1913–1966	novelist, journalist	Peace River Country
Tom Allen		creative non-fiction	Rolling Home
Paul Almond	b. 1931	novelist, screenwriter
Anne-Marie Alonzo	1951–2005	poet	Bleus de mine
George Amabile	b. 1936	poet
Anahareo	1906–1986	autobiographer	Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl
Marguerite Andersen	b. 1924	poet	Courts métrages et instantanés
Debra Anderson		novelist, playwright	Code White
Doris Anderson	1921–2007	journalist	The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter
Patrick Anderson	b. 1915	poet
Rod Anderson	b. 1935	poet, accounting texts
Gordon Stewart Anderson	1958–1991	novelist	The Toronto You Are Leaving
Gail Anderson-Dargatz	b. 1963	novelist	The Cure for Death by Lightning
Michael Andre		poet
François-Réal Angers	1812–1860	legal texts	Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada
Trey Anthony		playwright	Da Kink in My Hair
Salvatore Antonio		playwright	In Gabriel's Kitchen
Lisa Appignanesi	b. 1946	novelist, biographer	Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir
Emmanuel Aquin	b. 1968	novelist
Hubert Aquin	1929–1977	novelist	Prochain épisode
Gilles Archambault	b. 1933	novelist	L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions
Nelly Arcan	1973–2009	novelist	Putain
Bert Archer	b. 1968	journalist, essayist	The End of Gay
Jeannette Armstrong	b. 1948	novelist, poet	Slash
Kelley Armstrong	b. 1968	horror fiction	Women of the Otherworld
David Arnason	b. 1940	poet, novelist, historian	The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg
Joanne Arnott	b. 1960	poet, children's literature	Wiles of Girlhood
Margaret Atwood	b. 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
Jean-Paul Audet	1918–1993	theologian
Margaret Avison	1918–2007	poet	The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Malcolm Azania		science fiction	The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Caroline Azar		playwright	The Surreal Detective

B

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Todd Babiak		novelist	The Garneau Block
Ken Babstock		poet	Mean, Airstream Land Yacht
Martha Baillie		novelist	The Incident Report
R. Scott Bakker	b. 1967	fantasy	Prince of Nothing
Shauna Singh Baldwin	b. 1962	novelist	What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw
Winifred Bambrick	1892–1969	novelist	Continental Revue
Himani Bannerji	b. 1942	poet, academic	Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism
Gary Bannerman	b. 1947	non-fiction	Squandering Billions
Nick Bantock	b. 1949	novelist	Griffin and Sabine
Bruce Barber		art critic	Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State
Joan Barfoot	b. 1946	novelist	Dancing in the Dark, Luck
Robert Barr	1849–1912	novelist, humorist	The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Gary Barwin	b. 1964	novelist, children's literature	Seeing Stars
Rodrigo Bascunan	b. 1976	non-fiction	Enter The Babylon System
Michel Basilières	b. 1960	novelist	Black Bird
Bill Bauer		poet	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Nancy Bauer	b. 1934	arts journalist	Flora, Write This Down
Kevin Bazzana		music historian	Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Yves Beauchemin	b. 1941	novelist	Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou
Doug Beardsley	b. 1941	poet	Dancing Star
D. Y. Béchard		novelist	Vandal Love
Peter Behrens		novelist, short-story writer	The Law of Dreams
Henry Beissel	b. 1929	poet, translator	Under Coyote's Eye
Ken Belford	b. 1946	poet	Pathways into the Mountains
William E. Bell	b. 1945	children's literature	Forbidden City
Winthrop Pickard Bell	1884–1965	historian	The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia
John Bemrose		journalist, novelist	The Island Walkers
Djemila Benhabib	b. 1972	non-fiction	Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
Nigel Bennett	b. 1949	fantasy	Keeper of the King, His Father's Son
David Bergen	b. 1957	novelist	The Time in Between, A Year of Lesser
David Berman	b. 1962	non-fiction	Do Good Design
Pierre Berton	1920–2004	historian, journalist, memoirist	The National Dream, The Last Spike
Dennison Berwick	b. 1956	adventure travel writer	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		non-fiction, songwriter	Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey
Anthony Bidulka		mysteries	Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu
Sandra Birdsell	b. 1942	novelist, short story writer	The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf
Earle Birney	1904–1995	poet, novelist, short stories, drama	David and Other Poems, Turvey
Bill Bissett	b. 1939	experimental poet	nobody owns th earth
Lise Bissonnette	b. 1945	novelist, journalist	Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus
Neil Bissoondath	b. 1955	novelist	A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions
George G. Blackburn	1917–2006	Creative non-fiction	The Guns of Normandy
Marie-Claire Blais	b. 1939	novelist	Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Clark Blaise	b. 1940	novelist, short stories	Lunar Attractions
Lance Blomgren	b. 1970	short stories, essays	Walkups, Corner Pieces
Giles Blunt	b. 1952	mystery	Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season
Dennis Bock	b. 1964	novelist	The Ash Garden
Fred Bodsworth	b. 1918	journalist, naturalist	The Last of the Curlews
Christian Bök	b. 1966	poet	Eunoia
Stephanie Bolster		poet	White Stone: The Alice Poems
Carol Bolt	1941-2000	playwright	Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists
Roo Borson	b. 1952	poet	Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
Hédi Bouraoui	b. 1932	poet, novelist	Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes
Pan Bouyoucas	b. 1946	novelist, playwright, poet	The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea
Gail Bowen	b. 1942	novelist, playwright
George Bowering	b. 1935	novelist, poet	The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water
Marilyn Bowering	b. 1949	poet, novelist	Visible Worlds, Autobiography
Randy Boyagoda	b. 1976	novelist, non-fiction	Governor of the Northern Province
David Boyd		children's literature	Bottom Drawer
George Boyd		dramatist	Consecrated Ground
Joseph Boyden	b. 1966	novelist	Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce
Harry J. Boyle	1915–2005	humorist	Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish
Karleen Bradford	b. 1936	children's literature	There Will Be Wolves
Max Braithwaite	1911–1995	novelist, non-fiction	The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
Shannon Bramer	b. 1973	poet	The Refrigerator Memory
Dionne Brand	b. 1953	poet, novelist	What We All Long For, Land to Light On
Di Brandt	b. 1952	poet, literary critic	Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care
Jacques Brault	b. 1933	poet, translator	Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin
Brian Brett	b. 1950	novelist, memoirist	Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden
Robert Bringhurst	b. 1946	poet, author, and typographer	The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major
David Bromige	b. 1944	poet	My Poetry
Barry Broadfoot	1926–2003	historian	Six War Years, The Immigrant Years
Frances Brooke	1724–1789	novelist, essayist	The History of Emily Montague
Bertram Brooker	1888–1955	poet, advertising	Subconscious Selling
Nicole Brossard	b. 1943	poet	Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse
Sigmund Brouwer	b. 1959	children's literature	Watch Out for Joel!
Nick Brune	b. 1952	historian	Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture
Carol Bruneau	b. 1956	novelist	Purple for Sky
Cathy Marie Buchanan	b. 1963	novelist	The Day the Falls Stood Still
Ernest Buckler	1908–1984	novelist	The Mountain and the Valley
Robert Budde	b. 1966	poet, novelist	Finding Fort George
Margaret Buffie		children's literature	Who is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher
Bonnie Burnard	b. 1945	novelist	A Good House
Murdoch Burnett	b. 1953	poet	Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans
Mick Burrs		poet	Variations on the Birth of Jacob
Catherine Bush	b. 1961	novelist	Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement
Sharon Butala	b. 1940	novelist	The Perfection of the Morning

C

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Stephen Cain	b. 1970	poet	American Standard/ Canada Dry
Frank Oliver Call	1878-1956	poet, travel writing	Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth
Barry Callaghan	b. 1937	novelist and journalist	Barrelhouse Kings
Morley Callaghan	1903–1990	novelist, short stories	A Fine and Private Place
Anne Cameron	b. 1938	novelist, poet, short story writer	Daughters of Copper Woman
Elspeth Cameron	b. 1943	biographer	No Previous Experience
George Frederick Cameron	1854–1885	poet, lawyer, and journalist,	operetta Leo, the Royal Cadet
Silver Donald Cameron	b. 1937
Natalee Caple	b. 1970	novelist	The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World
Pat Capponi	b. 1949	memoirist	Upstairs in the Crazy House
Bliss Carman	1861–1929	poet	Low Tide on Grand Pré
David Carpenter
Roch Carrier	b. 1937	novelist, short stories	La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail
Anne Carson	b. 1950	poet	Autobiography of Red
Allan Casey		non-fiction	Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Robert Chafe		playwright	Afterimage, Tempting Providence
Francis Chalifour	b. 1977	creative non-fiction	After
Gillian Chan
David Chariandy		novelist	Soucouyant
Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix	1682–1761	historian
Évelyne de la Chenelière	b. 1975	playwright, novelist	Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar
Herménégilde Chiasson	b. 1946	poet, playwright
Denise Chong		memoirist	The Concubine's Children
Wayson Choy	b. 1939	novelist	The Jade Peony, All That Matters
Lesley Choyce	b. 1951
Michael Christie		short stories	The Beggar's Garden
Eliza Clark	b. 1963	novelist	Bite the Stars
Greg Clark	1892–1977	humorist
Joan Clark	b. 1934	novelist	Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires
Austin Clarke	b. 1934	novelist	The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
George Elliott Clarke	b. 1960	poet, novelist, dramatist	Whylah Falls, George and Rue
Lynn Coady	b. 1970	novelist	Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven
Mark Coakley		true crime	Tip and Trade
Fred Cogswell	1917-2004	poet
Leonard Cohen	b. 1934	poet, novelist, singer-songwriter	Beautiful Losers
Matt Cohen	1942–1999	novelist	Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After
Susan G. Cole	b. 1952	journalist	Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography
Trevor Cole	b. 1960	novelist	The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean
Anne Coleman		creative non-fiction	I'll Tell You a Secret
Don Coles	b. 1928	poet	Forests of the Medieval World
John Robert Colombo	b. 1936	poet and compiler of reference books
Jan Conn	b. 1952	poet and insect geneticist
Karen Connelly	b. 1969
Kevin Connolly		poet, book editor	Drift, Revolver
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon)	1860–1937	novelist, essayist	The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days
George Ramsay Cook	b. 1931	historian
Hugh Cook	b. 1942
Michael Cook
Tim Cook	b. 1971	military historian	Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918
Dennis Cooley	b. 1944
Douglas Cooper		novelist
Carole Corbeil	1952–2000	novelist, journalist	Voice-Over, In the Wings
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman		playwright	Scratch
Thomas B. Costain	1885–1965	historical fiction and non-fiction	Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice
Douglas Coupland	b. 1961	novelist	Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
Daniel Allen Cox	b. 1976	novelist	Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Donald Creighton	1902–1979	historian
Octave Crémazie	1827–1879	poet
Lynn Crosbie
Lorna Crozier	b. 1948	poet
Michael Crummey
Nancy Jo Cullen		poet, short stories	Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary
Alan Cumyn	b. 1960
Richard Cumyn
Andrea Curtis		creative non-fiction	Into the Blue
Herb Curtis

D

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Cherish D'Angelo, aka Cheryl Kaye Tardif	b. 1963	novelist	Lancelot's Lady
Frank Davey	b. 1940
Robertson Davies	1913–1995	novelist	Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone
Lauren B. Davis	b. 1955	novelist, short story writer
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
James de Mille	1833–1880	novelist	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Marq de Villiers	b. 1940	journalist, magazine editor, science writer	Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Anthony De Sa		novelist, short story writer	Barnacle Love
Patrick deWitt	b. 1975	novelist	The Sisters Brothers
Sandra Dempsey
Barry Dempster
Randall Denley		journalist, novelist	The Perfect Candidate
Alexander Dewdney		computer science and philosophy
Christopher Dewdney	b. 1951
Myrna Dey		novelist, journalist	Extensions
Ranj Dhaliwal	b. 1976	novelist, author, fiction	Daaku
Mary di Michele	b. 1949	poet, novelist	Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love
Ann Diamond	b. 1951	poems, novels, short stories	A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye
Nicolas Dickner	b. 1972	novels, 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 story writer
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
William Henry Drummond	1854–1907	poet	The Habitant
Marcel Dubé
Peter Dubé		novels, 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
Kristyn Dunnion	b. 1969	novelist, short stories	Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles

E

Name	Lifetime	books	notable books
Edith Maude Eaton	1865–1914	short stories	Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Evelyn Eaton	1902–1983	novels, poetry	Quietly My Captain Waits
Chris Eaton	b.1971	novels, music	The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect
Winnifred Eaton	1875–1954	novelist	A Japanese Nightingale
Kim Echlin	b. 1955	novelist	The Disappeared
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"
Howard Engel	b. 1931	mystery	The Suicide Murders
Marian Engel	1933–1985	novelist	Bear
Yves Engler		political writer and activist	Playing Left Wing
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
Jon Evans	b. 1973	novelist	Dark Places
Stanley Evans		novelist	Seaweed series of crime fiction

F

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim	1916–2003	historian, philosopher
Terry Fallis		humorist	The Best Laid Plans
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	Why I Hate Canadians, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw
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
Timothy Findley	1930–2002	novelist, dramatist, short stories	The Wars, The Piano Man's Daughter
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	writer, novelist	The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman
Barbara Fletcher
Lisa Foad		short stories, journalism	The Night Is a Mouth
Waawaate Fobister		playwright	Agokwe
Dennis Foon
Charles Foran
John-James Ford
Helen Forrester	b. 1919	novelist
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
Robert Fulford		journalist
Janine Fuller	b. 1958	non-fiction	Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Wes Funk		novelist	Dead Rock Stars, Baggage
Nicola Furlong

G

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Mavis Gallant	b. 1922	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
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
Graeme Gibson	b. 1934	novelist	Five Legs, Perpetual Motion
Margaret Gibson	1948–2006	novelist, short story writer	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
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, mystery, poet	Housebroken, Freeze Frame
Alison Gordon		sports journalist, mystery	The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball
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
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
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
Ed Greenwood	b. 1959	fantasy	Forgotten Realms
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
Ralph Gustafson	1909–1995	poet	Fire on Stone
Sandra Gwyn	1935–2000	journalist	The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

H

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Rawi Hage	b. 1964	novelist	De Niro's Game, Cockroach
Joan Haggerty
Roderick Haig-Brown	b. 1941
Arthur Hailey	1920–2004	novelist	Hotel, Airport
Thomas Chandler Haliburton			The Clockmaker
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
Alexander Harris	1805–1874	novelist	Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods
Claire Harris	b. 1937
Marjorie Harris
Keith Harrison	b. 1945	novelist	Eyemouth, Furry Creek
Jill Hartman
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
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
Charles Heavysege	1816–1876	poet	Saul
Anne Hébert			Kamouraska
Steven Heighton		novelist, poet	The Shadow Boxer
William C. Heine		novelist, newspaper editor	The Last Canadian
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
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
Robert Hilles	b. 1951
Jack Hodgins	b. 1938
Clive Holden		poet	Trains of Winnipeg
Pauline Holdstock
Greg Hollingshead	b. 1947	novelist, short stories	The Roaring Girl, The Healer
Margaret Lindsay Holton (aka 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
Harold Horwood	b. 1923
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

I

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Michael Ignatieff	b. 1947	novelist, academic	Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging
George K. Ilsley	b. 1958	novelist, short stories	Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug
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

J

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	mystery
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	b. 1939	science fiction, mystery fiction	Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series
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
Terry Jordan		short stories	It's a Hard Cow

K

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Surjeet Kalsey		poet, drama, short stories, translations	FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind,"Colours of My Heart", "Glimpses of Twentieth Century Punjabi Poetry in English Translation", "Behind the Palace Doors" (Drama)
Smaro Kamboureli
Alan Kane	b. 1954		Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
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
Lionel Kearns	b. 1937
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
Crawford Kilian
Crad Kilodney	b. 1948	short stories	Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda
Basil King	1859–1928	novels; 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 story writer	Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside
William Kirby	1817–1906	novelist, poet	The Golden Dog
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
Joy Kogawa	b. 1935-	poet, novelist	Obasan, Itsuka,
Gordon Korman
Myrna Kostash
Shane Koyczan
Henry Kreisel	1922–1991	novelist	The Rich Man
John Krizanc	b. 1956	playwright	Tamara
Robert Kroetsch	b. 1927–2011	novelist, poet	The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K
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, poetry	This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy

L

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Sonnet L'Abbé		poet	A Strange Relief, Killarnoe
Richard Labonté		critic, anthologist	First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series
Edward A. Lacey	1988-1995	poet	The Forms of Life
Larissa Lai	b. 1967	novelist	When Fox Is a Thousand
Vincent Lam	b. 1974	medical writer, novelist	Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Tim Lander	b. 1938	poet	Street Heart Poems
Patrick Lane	b. 1939	poet	Poems, New and Selected
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, and social worker	Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier
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
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
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
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
Claude Léveillée	1932–2011	songwriter, playwright.	L'hiver, Les beaux dimanches
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
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
Malcolm Lowry	1909–1957	novelist	Under the Volcano
Pat Lowther	1935–1975	poet	Milk Stone, A Stone Diary
Pearl Luke	b. 1958	novelist	Burning Ground, Madame Zee
Janet Lunn	b. 1928	children's literature	The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree
Annabel Lyon	b. 1970	novels, short stories	The Golden Mean
Eswyn Lyster	1923–2009	war brides, war author	Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle

M

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)
Bernell MacDonald	b. 1950
Hugh MacDonald
Jake MacDonald
Janice MacDonald	b. 1959	novelist, children's books, short stories	Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out, Sticks and Stones
Maggie MacDonald
Gwendolyn MacEwen	1941–1987	poet
Linden MacIntyre	b. 1943	novelist, journalist	The Bishop's Man, Causeway
Rory Maclean	b. 1954
Hugh MacLennan	1907–1990	novelist and essayist	Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising
Matt MacLennan
Michael MacLennan
Alexander MacLeod		short stories	Light Lifting
Alistair MacLeod	b. 1936	novelist, short stories	No Great Mischief
Elizabeth Macleod		biographer
Rick Maddocks	b. 1970	short stories	Sputnik Diner
Rabindranath Maharaj	b. 1955	novelist, short story writer	The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice
Antonine Maillet	b. 1929	novelist, playwright	La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charette
Kevin Major	b. 1949
Pasha Malla		short stories, journalism	The Withdrawal Method
Eli Mandel
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
Daphne Marlatt	b. 1942
Paul Marlowe		novelist, short stories	Sporeville
John Marlyn	1912–1985
Nicole Markotic
Tom Marshall	1938-1993	poest, novelist, critic	Adele at the End of the Day
Yann Martel	b. 1963	novelist, short story writer	Life of Pi
Camille Martin	b. 1956	poet, collage artist	Sonnets, Looms
Carol Matas	b. 1949
Shirlee Smith Matheson
Susan Mayse	b. 1948	Creative non-fiction	Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web
Colin McAdam		novelist	Some Great Thing
Steve McCaffery
Nellie McClung		journalist
John McCrae	1872–1918	poet	"In Flanders' Fields"
Derek McCulloch	b. 1964	graphic novelist and children's book writer	"Stagger Lee"
Colin McDougall	1917–1984	novelist	Execution
Franklin D. McDowell	1888–1965	novelist	The Champlain Road
Jaimie McEvoy	b. 1965	historian
David McFadden
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		novels, short stories	Sandbars
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
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
John Melady
Lee Mellor	b.1982	true crime writer, music critic	Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
Judith Merril	1923 - 1997	science fiction writer, editor
John Metcalf	b. 1938
Anne Michaels		poet, novelist	Fugitive Pieces
Roy Miki
Ron Miksha	b. 1954		Bad Beekeeping
John Miller	b. 1968	novelist	The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath
Orlo Miller	1911-1993	historian, novelist
Kenneth G. Mills	1923–2004	poet
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
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
Shani Mootoo	b. 1958	novelist	Cereus Blooms at Night
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon		poet
Pierre Morency	b. 1942	poet and playwright
Bernice Morgan
Dwayne Morgan
Jeffrey Morgan		rock critic, authorized biographer	The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story
Kim Moritsugu		novels	Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure
Donna Morrissey
Kim Morrissey	b. 1956
Colin Morton
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
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 and novelist	The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids

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
Shenaaz Nanji		young adult literature	Child of Dandelions
Akhtar Naraghi		novelist, poet	The Big Green House
Angela Narth	b. 1946	children's author, non-fiction writer	Simon With Two Left Feet
Émile Nelligan	1879–1941	poet	Émile Nelligan et son œuvre
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
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

O

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
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 and 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

P

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
P.K. Page	b. 1916	poet
Erna Paris		literary nonfiction	Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
Gilbert Parker	b. 1862	novelist	The Seats of the Mighty
Kevin Patterson	b. 1964	novelist, memoirist	Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between
Michael Patterson
Raymond M. Patterson
Louise Penny	b. 1958	mystery writer	Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month
Sasenarine Persaud		essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet
Len Peterson
Lorne Pierce	1890–1961	literary critic
Joseph Pivato	b. 1946-	literary critic, writer	Echo: Essays on Other Literature
Ted Plantos
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
B.W. Powe		philosopher	A Canada of Light
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	b. 1918	poet
Andrew Pyper	b. 1968	novelist	Lost Girls, The Trade Mission

Q

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
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
Pascale Quiviger	b. 1969	novelist	Le Cercle parfait

R

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
Gurcharan Rampuri
Edeet Ravel	b. 1955	novelist	A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers
Angela Rawlings
Wayne Ray		short stories	Giants of the North, Going Down Goose Lane Toward Broken Jaw
Mark A. Rayner
James Reaney	1926–2008	poet, playwright	The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's
Michael Redhill		novelist, short stories	Martin Sloane
Gayla Reid
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
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
John Richardson	1796–1852	novelist	Wacousta
Daniel Richler	b. 1957	novelist, journalist	Kicking Tomorrow
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
Tanis Rideout		poet, novelist	Above All Things
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton)	1895–1960	novelist	Thirty Acres
Charles Ritchie	1906–1995	diarist	An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts	1860–1943	poet and novelist	The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg
Ken Roberts
Paul William Roberts
Lisa Robertson		poet
Margaret Murray Robertson	1823–1897	novelist
Eden Robinson		novelist
J. Jill Robinson	b. 1955	short stories, creative nonfiction	Lovely In Her Bones, Residual Desire
Peter Robinson	b. 1950	mystery
Harriet A. Roche	1835—1921	pioneer, traveller	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
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
Sinclair Ross	1908–1996	short stories, novelist	As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial
Jeffrey Round		poet, mystery writer	The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain
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
Jane Rule	1931–2007	novelist	Desert of the Heart
Elizabeth Ruth	b.1968	novelist	Smoke
George Ryga	1932–1987	playwright and novelist	The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Geoff Ryman

S

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Michelle Sagara		fantasy
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
Mairuth Sarsfield	1925-2013	novelist	No Crystal Stair
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	b. 1946	novelist, pseudonym Clanash Farjeon	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
Adam Lewis Schroeder		novelist and short story writer	In the Fabled East
Andreas Schroeder
Gregory Scofield	b. 1966	poet	The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
Duncan Campbell Scott	1862–1947	poet	In the Village of Viger
Frank Scott	1899–1985	poet
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, and political writer
Sarah Selecky		short stories	This Cake is for the Party
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 YA author	The Glory Wind
Carol Shields	1935–2003	novelist, short stories	The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party
Aki Shimazaki
Maggie Siggins		historian, biography	Riel
Antanas Sileika
Makeda Silvera
Judith Silverthorne	b. 1953	author - non-fiction, children's writer	The Secret of the Stone Circle, Dinosaur Blackout, Dinosaur Stakeout, The Secret of the Stone House
Bren Simmers	b. 1976	poet	Night Gears
Merilyn Simonds		journalist	The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror
Colin Simpson
Jaspreet Singh
Johanna Skibsrud	b. 1980	novelist, poet	The Sentimentalists
Marsha Skrypuch	b. 1954	young adult, children's fiction and 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
Mary Soderstrom		novelist, short stories, non-fiction	The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
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
Birk Sproxton	b. 1943
Edna Staebler	1906–2006	journalist, Mennonite cooking	Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series
Harold Standish	1919–1972	poet and 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 writer
Walter Stewart	1941–2004	journalist and editor
Bill Stilwell
Kathy Stinson
Cassie Stocks		novels	Dance, Gladys, Dance
Anne Stone
Allan Stratton	b. 1951	playwright
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer		screenwriter; novelist
Cordelia Strube		novels, drama	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 story writer	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 story writer	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
Scott Symons
Guy Sylvestre		journalist, critic
Anne Szumigalski	1922–1999	poet	Voice

T

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Mariko Tamaki		short fiction, plays, graphic novels	Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire
Shelley Tanaka		editor, children's nonfiction writer	Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic
Cheryl Kaye Tardif	b. 1963	novelist, short story writer, nonfiction	Whale Song, The River, Divine Intervention, Skeletons in the Closet, Lancelot's Lady (writing as Cherish D'Angelo)
Jules-Paul Tardivel
Timothy Taylor		novelist, short stories	Stanley Park
Ningeokuluk Teevee	b. 1963	children's writer	Alego
Wayne Tefs
Charles Templeton	1915–2001
John Terpstra		poet
Bill Terry		non-fiction, gardening	Blue Heaven
Denis Thériault
Yves Thériault	1915–1983	novelist, short story writer	Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide
Sharon Thesen	b. 1946	poet	The Good Bacteria
Madeleine Thien		short story writer, novelist	Certainty
Audrey Thomas	b. 1935	novelist	Coming Down from Wa
John Thompson
Elizabeth Thornton
Kim Thúy	b. 1968	novelist	Ru
Miriam Toews		novelist	A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans
Morley Torgov	b. 1927
Lola Lemire Tostevin
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
Karen X. Tulchinsky		novelist, screenwriter	The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature
Élise Turcotte
Michael Turner		novelist, songwriter	American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo

U

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
David UU (David W. Harris)	1948–1994	visual poet	Chopped Liver

V

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	novels, short stories, children's	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 / investigstive reporting	The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada
Paul Vermeersch	b. 1973	poet	Burn
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, drama, 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

W

Marie Wadden		Non-fiction	Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan
Fred Wah	b. 1939	Poet, novelist	Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan
David Walker	1911–1992	Novelist	The Pillar, Digby
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
Russell Wangersky		Novelist, short stories, journalist	The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica
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
John Leigh Walters		creative non-fiction	A Very Capable Life
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
Alison Wearing	b. 1967	Travel	Honeymoon in Purdah
Barry Webster		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
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
William Whitehead	b. 1931	Documentarian, memoirist	Words to Live By
Rudy Wiebe	b. 1934	Novelist	A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear
Helen Waldstein Wilkes		creative non-fiction	Letters from the Lost
Eric Wilson	b. 1940	Mystery	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 writer	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 author, dramatist	Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk
Adele Wiseman	1928–1992	Novelist, poet	The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play
George Woodcock	1912–1995	Poet, critic	Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit
Susan Wood	1948–1980	Author, 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	Mystery	The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man
L. R. Wright	1939–2001	Mystery	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

X

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	b. 1925	mystery	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
Scott Young	1918–2005	biographer, sportswriter, mystery writer	A Writer's Life, "Murder in a Cold Climate"

Z

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Eve Zaremba	b. 1930	mystery novelist	A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect
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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