List of Canadian writers

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

A

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Irving Abella	1940		historian	None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948
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
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 and 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
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
François Avard	1968		screenwriter	Les Bougon
Margaret Avison	1918	2007	poet	The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot
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 writer	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, poetry	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
Frédéric Bastien			historian, journalist	La Bataille de Londres
Arjun Basu			novelist, short stories	Squishy, Waiting for the Man
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
D. Y. Béchard	1974		novelist	Vandal Love
Peter Behrens	1954		novelist, screenwriter, short-story writer	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
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 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	1963		journalist, non-fiction, songwriter	Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey
Anthony Bidulka	1962		mystery novelist	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 story writer	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		mystery novelist, screenwriter	Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season
Adam Bock			playwright	The Receptionist, The Drunken City
Dennis Bock	1964		novelist, short story writer	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 story writer	The Lion Seeker
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 story writer	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 story writer	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
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 story writer	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
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!
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
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

C

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 writing	Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth
Barry Callaghan	1937		novelist and journalist	Barrelhouse Kings
Morley Callaghan	1903	1990	novelist, short stories	A Fine and Private Place
Anne Cameron	1938		novelist, poet, short story writer	Daughters of Copper Woman
Elspeth Cameron	1943		biographer	No Previous Experience
George Frederick Cameron	1854	1885	poet, lawyer, and journalist	Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta)
Silver Donald Cameron	1937		non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalism	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
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		juvenile 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 writing, memoir	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		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
Don Coles	1928		poet	Forests of the Medieval World
John Robert Colombo	1936		poet and compiler of reference books	Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References
Bill Conall			novelist, humorist	The Promised Land
Jan Conn	1952		poet and insect geneticist	South of the Tudo Bem Cafe
Karen Connelly	1969		travel writer, novelist, poet	Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage
Kevin Connolly	1962		poet, book 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 story writer	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 and 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	book author, 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 writer	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 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
Elisabeth de Mariaffi		short story writer, poet	How to Get Along With Women
Sadiqa de Meijer		short story writer, 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 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
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 and philosophy
Christopher Dewdney	b. 1951
Myrna Dey		novelist, journalist	Extensions
Ranj Dhaliwal	b. 1976	novelist, author, fiction	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	poems, novels, short stories	A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye
Don Dickinson	b. 1947	novels, short stories	Blue Husbands, The Crew
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
Brian Drader		playwright	Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals
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
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

E

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Lawrence Earl	1915–2005	novels, journalism	Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass
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
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	mystery	The Suicide Murders
Marian Engel	1933–1985	novelist	Bear
Yves Engler		political writer and 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

F

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	writer, 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, 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
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

G

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
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 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
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, mystery, poet	Housebroken, Freeze Frame
Alison Gordon		sports journalist, mystery	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 writer	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
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

H

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, mystery writer	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	novels, journalism	Truthfully Yours
Robin Hardy	1952–1995	novels, journalism	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
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			Kamouraska
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
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
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
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
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

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	1939–2014	science fiction, mystery fiction, 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
Terry Jordan		short stories	It's a Hard Cow

K

Name	Lifetime	Genre	Notable works
Elaine Kalman Naves		non-fiction	Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story
Surjeet Kalsey		poet, drama, short stories, translations	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
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	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
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 story writer, novelist	Prairie Ostrich
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, 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
Rosa Labordé		playwright	Léo
Marie-Sissi Labrèche	b. 1969	screenwriter, novelist	Borderline
Edward A. Lacey	1988-1995	poet	The Forms of Life
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	medical writer, 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, and 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
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
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 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)
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 books, 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 and 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 story writer	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
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, financial writer	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
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 story writer	Pour orchestre et poète seul
Yann Martel	b. 1963	novelist, short story writer	Life of Pi
Camille Martin	b. 1956	poet, collage artist	Sonnets, Looms
Claire Martin	1914-2014	writer	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
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 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
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
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
Edmund Metatawabin		memoirist	Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
John Metcalf	b. 1938
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
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
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 and 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
Colin Morton
Marie Moser	b. 1948	novelist and short-story writer	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
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
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
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
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 writer	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

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
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 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
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
Aaron Paquette		young adult literature, fantasy	Lightfinder
Arleen Paré		poet, novelist	Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains
Erna Paris		literary nonfiction	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
Francine Pelletier		science fiction, young adult
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez	b. 1971	children's, memoir, academic	Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant
Louise Penny	b. 1958	mystery writer	Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month
H. R. Percy	1920-1997	novelist, short stories	Painted Ladies
Sasenarine Persaud		essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet	Canada Geese and Apple Chatney, In a Boston Night, Lantana Strangling Ixora
Len Peterson
Wendy Phillips		children's author	Fishtailing
Lorne Pierce	1890–1961	literary critic
Joseph Jomo Pierre		playwright	Shakespeare's Nigga
Joseph Pivato	b. 1946-	literary critic, writer	Echo: Essays on Other Literature
Ted Plantos
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
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	poetry, fiction	Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet
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
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
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
Duke Redbird	b. 1939	poet, academic, journalist
Michael Redhill		novelist, short stories	Martin Sloane
Gayla Reid
Raziel 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
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 and 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 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
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, mystery writer	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
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
Anakana Schofield		novelist	Malarky
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
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, and 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 YA author	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, biography	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 nonfiction, novels, short stories, memoir	The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror, The Paradise Project
Colin Simpson
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 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
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
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 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
Aryeh Lev Stollman		novels, short stories	The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul
Anne Stone			Indelible
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
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

T

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 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
Jordan Tannahill		playwright	Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company
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
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 writer	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 story writer	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 story writer, 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
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	nonfiction	Planet Simpson, The Geography of Hope
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
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

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
Katherena Vermette		poet, children's writer	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, 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

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
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, poetry	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	novels, poetry	Labour of Love
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	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
Alan Woo		children's literature, poetry, 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	mystery	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	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	1925-2011	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
Ian Young	b. 1945	poetry, non-fiction, journalism	The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature
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
Robert Zend	1929-1985	poet, fiction writer, 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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