List of Canadian writers
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including
poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z - See also
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B
- Ken Babstock
- D.F. Bailey
- Himani Bannerji
- Volodimir Barabash
(1900-1989), poet
- Bruce Barber
- Steve Bareham
- Gary Barwin (born 1964) novelist
and children's author
- Ronald Bates
- Bill Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Henry Beissel, (born 1929)
- William Bell
- Nigel Bennett
- Pierre Berton (born 1920)
prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Gerard Bessette (born 1920), Quebecois author
- Carol Biberstein, children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
- Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels
- Earle Birney (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Bill Bissett (born 1939) poet,
famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lise Bissonnette
- Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)
- Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
- Clark Blaise (born 1940)
- Christian Bök (born 1966),
poet, author of Eunoia
- Stephanie Bolster
- Roo Borson, (born 1952)
- Hédi Bouraoui
- Nicholas Boving
- George Bowering (born 1935)
- Marilyn Bowering (born 1949), poet and novelist
- David Boyd
- George Elroy Boyd
- Catherine
Bradford
- Karleen Bradford
- Max Braithwaite
(1911-1995) prairie depression era fiction
- Dionne Brand (1953- ) poet born
in Trinidad
- Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and
literary critic
- Jacques Brault (1933- )
- Brian Brett
- Robert Bringhurst (1946- ) poet, author, and typographer
- David Bromige (1944- )
poet
- Barry Broadfoot (1926-2003) interviewer, author
- Bertram Brooker
theosophist painter
- Nicole Brossard (1943- )
formalist poet
- Robert Budde (1966- ) poet and
novelist
- Margaret Buffie
- Bonnie Burnard (1945- )
novelist, The Good House
- Mick Burrs
- Sharon Butala (1940- )
- Anthony M.
Buzzelli
C
- Barry Callaghan (born 1937)
novelist and journalist
- Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private
Place
- Elspeth Cameron, (born 1943) biographer
- Silver Donald
Cameron (born 1937)
- James
Cameron (born 1910) poet and critic
- Phil Campagna
- Natalee Caple
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929) poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
- David Carpenter
- Roch Carrier (born 1937)
French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote La Guerre, Yes Sir!, as well as the children's story The
Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey)
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- Gillian Chan
- Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), first historian of New
France.
- Wayson Choy (born 1939)
- Lesley Choyce (born 1951)
- Greg Clark (1892-1977), humourist
- Austin Clarke (born 1934)
- George Elliott Clarke (born 1960) poet, U of T professor
- Lynn Coady (born 1970)
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934),
poet and singer
- Matt Cohen (born 1942)
- Samuel Nathan
Cohen (1923-1971) drama critic
- Helena Coleman
- John Robert
Columbo (born 1936), poet and compiler of reference books
- Karen Connelly (born 1969)
- Ralph Conner (also known as
Charles William Gordon), The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days.
- George Ramsay Cook (born 1931), historian
- Hugh Cook (born 1942)
- Michael Cook
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944)
- Doug Cooper
- John Paul
Copeland
- Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965), historical fiction
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
- Isabella
Valancy Crawford
- Donald Creighton (1902-1979), historian
- Octave Crémazie (1827-1879), French-Canadian poet
- Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
- Lorna Crozier (born 1948)
- Michael Crummey
- Peter Cummings
- Alan Cumyn (born 1960)
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski (born 1949), author, poet, and eMedia artist
D
E
F
- Emil Ludwig Fackenheim
(1916-2003), historian, philosopher
- Edmundo Farolan
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson (1947-
)
- Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), playwright
- Joy Fielding (1945- ),
novelist
- B.K. Filson
- Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), Pilgrim
- Sheree Fitch
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Barbara Fletcher
- Helen Forrester
(1919- ), novelist
- Cecil Foster
- Tess Fragoulis
- Brad Fraser
- John Anderson
Fraser (1944- ), author former editor of Saturday Night Magazine
- Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.
- Sylvia Fraser (1935- ),
novelist
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- David French (1939- ),
playwright
- Patrick Friesen
- Robert Froetsch
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Robert Fulford autodictat, journalist
- Nicola Furlong
- James V. Fusco
G
- Grover Gall
- Mavis Gallant (born 1922)
- Francois
Xavier Garneau (1809-1866), writer and
historian
- Saint-Denys
Garneau (1912-1943), poet
- Hugh Garner (1913-1979), novelist
- Pauline Gedge (born 1945),
novelist
- Camilla Gibb (born 1968), novelist
- Graem C. Gibson (born 1934), novelist
- Margaret Gibson
- William Gibson (born 1948) Pioneering cyberpunk author, Neuromancer, All
Tomorrow's Parties
- Sky Gilbert
- Joanna Glass
- Jacques Godbout
- David Godfrey
- Robert Goldsmith
(1794-1861), first English-language Canadian
poet
- Leona Gom
- Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926), poet and science-fiction writer
- Sondra Gotlieb (born 1936),
newspaper columnist
- Hiromi Goto
- Katherine Govier (born 1948)
- Lee Gowan
- Barbara Gowdy (born 1950)
The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
- Neile Graham
- George Grant (1918-1988), historian
- Ed Greenwood, fantasy novelist and Forgotten Realms creator
- Grey Owl (1888-1938), conservationist
- John Grey
- Frederick
Phillip Grove (1879-1948)
- Richard Grove
- Genni Gunn (born 1949)
- Kristjana
Gunnars
- Ralph Gustafson
(1909-1995), poet
- Sandra Gwyn (born 1935), novelist
H
I
J
K
L
M
- Agnes Maule
Machar
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Bernell MacDonald, (born 1950)
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald
- Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
- Isabel
Ecclestone Mackay
- Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
- Michael MacLennan
- Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936)
- Elizabeth Macleod, biographer
- Antonine Maillet (born 1929), Acadian author, educator
- Kevin Major (born 1949)
- Eli Mandel
- Miriam Mandel
- David Manicom (born 1960) poet,
novelist, diplomat.
- Lee Maracle (born 1950)
Poet/novelist from the Squamish Nation. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.
- Daphne Marlatt (born 1942)
- John Marlyn, (1912-1985)
- David Margoshes (born 1941)
- Nicole Markotic
- Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002
Booker Prize Winner
- Carol Matas (born 1949)
- Shirlee Smith Matheson
- Steve McCaffery
- Nellie McClung, crusading journalist, MP
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), ("In Flanders'
Fields")
- David McFadden
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Don McKay poet
- Rhonda McLean
- Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author
- Susan McMaster
- Robert McNeil
- Sylvia McNicoll
- John Metcalf (born 1938)
- Anne Michaels
- Christine
Michels
- Roy Miki
- Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance
- Jane Mitchell
- Jared Mitchell
- W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), Who has Seen the Wind
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
- Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
- Brian Moore (1921-1999)
- Jeffrey Moore (born
1952)
- Lisa Moore
- Keith Moreau, (born 1951), writer and illustrator of children's books like ABC Fun Things Book
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
- Pierre Morency (born
1942), poet and playwright
- Bernice Morgan
- Donna Morrissey
- Kim Morrissey
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses, Aboriginal poet and playwright
- Tara Moss (born 1973) - wrote Fetish
- Erin Moure
- Farley Mowat, (born 1921)
Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
- Karen Mulholland
- Robert Munsch (born 1945),
American born writer of children's stories
- Allison Muri
- Alice Munro, (born 1931)
- Jim Munroe
- John Murrell
- Jai Murugan
- Susan Musgrave (born 1951),
poet and novelist
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P
Q
R
S
- Michelle Sagara West, fantasy author
- Rick Salutin (born 1942),
political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul, (born 1947) businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)
- Andreas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- Duncan Scott (1862-1947), poet
- Frank Scott (1899-1985), poet
- Djanet Sears, playwright and actor
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet of the Yukon
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
- Mark Shainblum
- Murphy O. Shewchuk
- Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
- Maggie Siggins
- Marsha Skrypuch
- Josef Skvorecky (born 1924
in Czechoslovakia, professor of English in Canada since 1969, but still writing his fiction in
Czech), novelist, essayist, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984 Governor General's Award)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), sailor and author
- Beverly Slopen
- Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)
- Russell Smith
- Taylor Smith
- Evan Solomon
- Raymond Souster (born
1921), poet
- Esta Spalding
- Birk Sproxton (1943- )
- Richard Stevenson
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Samuel Strickland,
(1804-1867) Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
- Rosemary
Sullivan
- Rita Summers
- James L. Swanson
- Robert Sward
- Mark Swartz
- George Swede
- Scott Symons
- Anne Szumigalski
T
U
V
W
- Fred Wah
- Bronwen Wallace
- Ted Warnell
- David Watmough
- Sheila Watson (1909-1998),
- Alison Wearing
- John Weier
- Elizabeth Wellburn
- Frank Westcott
- Mavis West
- Thomas Wharton
- Rudy Wiebe (1934- ), novelist
- Diana Wieler, Bad Boy ,
Drive
- Ethel Wilson (1888-1980), Swamp Angel, Hettie Dorval, "The
Window"
- Rob Winger
- Michael Winter
- Adele Wiseman (1928-1992), novelist and poet
- Beverly Wood
- George Woodcock (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist, author of Anarchism
- Patrick Woodcock
- Marnie Woodrow
- Lance Woolaver
- Eric Wright (1929- ), children's
mystery writer
- L.R. Wright
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