List of Canadian writers
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets , novelists , children's writers , essayists , and scholars .
A
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Irving Abella
1940
2022
historian
None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948
Louise Abbott
1950
non fiction author, photographer, filmmaker
The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence
Jordan Abel
poet, novelist
Empty Spaces , The Place of Scraps
Mark Abley
1955
poet, journalist
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Carolyn Abraham
1968
journalist, non-fiction
Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Eistein's Brain , The Juggler's Children: A Journey Into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
Marianne Ackerman
1952
playwright, novelist, journalist
Janice Acoose
1954
2020
journalist
Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak
Milton Acorn
1923
1986
poet
The Island Means Minago
José Acquelin
1956
poet
Anarchie de la lumière , L'Oiseau respirable
Ken Adachi
1929
1989
historian, critic
The Enemy That Never Was
Barry D. Adam
1952
sociologist
Evan Adams
1966
dramatist
Dreams of Sheep , Snapshots , Dirty Dog River
Ian Adams
1937
2021
novelist, non-fiction
Agent of Influence
Mary Electa Adams
1823
1898
poet
From Distant Shores
Gil Adamson
1961
novelist, short stories, poet
The Outlander
Caroline Adderson
1963
novelist, short stories
Bad Imaginings , Sitting Practice
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
horror
Wrist , Ghost Lake
Marie-Célie Agnant
1953
poet, novelist
Le Silence comme le sang
Freda Ahenakew
1932
2011
linguist, children's literature
Jean Marc Ah-Sen
novelist, short stories
Grand Menteur , In the Beggarly Style of Imitation , Disintegration in Four Parts
Kate Aitken
1891
1971
journalist, cooking enthusiast
Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book
Kelley Aitken
1954
short stories
Love in a Warm Climate
Will Aitken
1949
novelist, journalist
Terre Haute , Realia
Donald Akenson
1941
novelist, historian
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
1965
poet
My Heart is a Stray Bullet
Omar El Akkad
1982
novelist
American War , What Strange Paradise
Linda Aksomitis
1954
children's literature
Adeline's Dream
Kamal Al-Solaylee
1964
journalist
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Donald Alarie
1945
poet
Jérôme et les mots
Robert Arthur Alexie
1957
2014
novelist
Porcupines and China Dolls , The Pale Indian
André Alexis
1957
novelist, journalist, short stories
Childhood , Asylum , Pastoral
Edna Alford
1947
poet
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
1985
memoirist
Angry Queer Somali Boy
Nada Alic
1986
short stories
Bad Thoughts
Sandra Alland
1973
poet, journalist
Donna Allard
1956
poet
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe)
1941
romantic novels, expert on child abuse
Grant Allen
1848
1899
science writer, novelist
The Woman Who Did
Harper Allen
romantic fiction
Lillian Allen
1951
poet
Rhythm an' Hardtimes
Ralph Allen
1913
1966
novelist, journalist
Peace River Country
Robert Thomas Allen
1911
1990
humorist, children's literature
The Grass Is Never Greener , Wives, Children and Other Wild Life
Tom Allen
1964
creative non-fiction
Rolling Home
Paul Almond
1931
2015
novelist, screenwriter
Anne-Marie Alonzo
1951
2005
poet
Bleus de mine
Lisa Alward
1962
short stories
Cocktail
George Amabile
1936
poet
William Lacey Amy
1877
1962
writer
'Blue Pete' series
Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard)
1906
1986
autobiographer
Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl
Marguerite Andersen
1924
2022
poet
Courts métrages et instantanés
Debra Anderson
novelist, playwright
Code White
Doris Anderson
1921
2007
journalist
The Unfinished Revolution , Rebel Daughter
Enza Anderson
1964
journalist
Gordon Stewart Anderson
1958
1991
novelist
The Toronto You Are Leaving
Hugh Anderson
1890
1965
playwright
Auld Lang Syne
Patrick Anderson
1915
1979
poet
Rod Anderson
1935
poet, accounting texts
Trevor Anderson
1972
screenwriter
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
1963
novelist
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Maryse Andraos
1988
novelist
Sans refuge
Michael Andre
1946
poet
François-Réal Angers
1812
1860
legal texts
Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada
Vincent Anioke
short stories
Perfect Little Angels
Trey Anthony
1974
playwright
Da Kink in My Hair
Salvatore Antonio
1976
playwright
In Gabriel's Kitchen
Marianne Apostolides
novelist, memoirist
Swim , Voluptuous Pleasure
Lisa Appignanesi
1946
novelist, biographer
Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir
Emmanuel Aquin
1968
novelist
Hubert Aquin
1929
1977
novelist
Prochain épisode
Nelly Arcan
1973
2009
novelist
Putain
Gilles Archambault
1933
novelist
L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions
Bert Archer
1968
journalist, essayist
The End of Gay
Richard Arès
1910
1989
Tammy Armstrong
1974
novelist, poet
Bogman's Music
Jeannette Armstrong
1948
novelist, poet
Slash
Kelley Armstrong
1968
horror fiction
Women of the Otherworld
Rebecca Agatha Armour
1845
1891
novelist, local historian
Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton
David Arnason
1940
poet, novelist, historian
The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg
Daniel Arnold
playwright, screenwriter
Lawrence & Holloman , Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Joanne Arnott
1960
poet, children's literature
Wiles of Girlhood
Lawrence Aronovitch
1974
playwright
Nina Arsenault
1974
Ryad Assani-Razaki
1981
novels, short stories
Deux cercles , La main d'Iman
Bernard Assiniwi
1935
2000
novelist, essayist, journalist
La Saga des Béothuks , Windigo et la naissance du monde
Damien Atkins
1975
playwright
Real Live Girl , Lucy , The Gay Heritage Project
Diana Atkinson
1964
novelist
Highways and Dancehalls
Margaret Atwood
1939
novelist, poet, critic
The Handmaid's Tale , Alias Grace , Surfacing
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé
1814
1841
novelist
L'influence d'un livre
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
1786
1871
novelist, memoirist
Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot)
1947
2012
novelist, short stories
Cet imperceptible mouvement
Jean-Paul Audet
1918
1993
theologian
Noël Audet
1938
2005
poet, novelist
Ah, l'amour l'amour , L'Ombre de l'épervier
Larry Audlaluk
1953
memoirist
What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile
Ashley Audrain
1982
novelist
Jonathan Auxier
1981
young adult literature
The Night Gardener
François Avard
1968
screenwriter
Les Bougon
Susan Avingaq
1942
screenwriter, children's literature
Before Tomorrow , Fishing with Grandma , The Pencil
Margaret Avison
1918
2007
poet
The Winter Sun , Concrete and Wild Carrot
Mona Awad
1978
novelist, short stories
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Edem Awumey
1975
novelist
Port-Mélo , Les Pieds sales
Makram Ayache
playwright
Harun , The Green Line , The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
Malcolm Azania
1969
science fiction
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Caroline Azar
playwright
The Surreal Detective
B
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Todd Babiak
novelist
The Garneau Block
Ken Babstock
1970
poet
Mean , Airstream Land Yacht
Mette Bach
novelist, screenwriter
Elizabeth Bachinsky
1976
poet
Aaron Badgley
1964
non-fiction, biographer
Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label
Britta Badour
poet
Wires That Sputter
Bruce Bagemihl
1962
science
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Pierre Baillargeon
1916
1967
novelist
Le scandale est nécessaire
Martha Baillie
1960
novelist
The Incident Report
Irene Baird
1901
1981
novelist, poetry, journalist
Waste Heritage
Jacqueline Baker
1967
novelist, short stories
A Hard Witching , The Horseman's Graves , The Broken Hours
R. Scott Bakker
1967
fantasy
Prince of Nothing
Sharon Bala
1979
novelist, short stories
The Boat People
Shauna Singh Baldwin
1962
novelist
What the Body Remembers , The Tiger Claw
John Ballem
1925
2010
novelist
Winifred Bambrick
1892
1969
novelist
Continental Revue
Catherine Banks
c.1960
playwright
Bone Cage
Himani Bannerji
1942
poet, academic
Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism
Kaushalya Bannerji
poet
Gary Bannerman
1947
2011
non-fiction
Squandering Billions
Nick Bantock
1949
novelist
Griffin and Sabine
Simina Banu
poet
Pop , I Will Get Up Off Of
Marius Barbeau
1883
1969
academic, folklorist
Raymond Barbeau
1930
1992
essayist, literary critic
Victor Barbeau
1896
1994
Bruce Barber
1950
art critic
Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State
Joan Barfoot
1946
novelist
Dancing in the Dark , Luck
Keith Barker
playwright
The Hours That Remain , This Is How We Got Here
Leslie Gordon Barnard
1890
1961
short stories, fiction
Robert Barr
1849
1912
novelist, short stories, humorist
The Measure of the Rule , The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Laurent Barré
1886
1964
novelist
Joelle Barron
poet
Ritual Lights
James Bartleman
1939
2023
memoirist, young adult literature
Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka , As Long as the Rivers Flow
John Barton
1957
poet
Designs from the Interior , Sweet Ellipsis
Gary Barwin
1964
novelist, children's literature, poet
Seeing Stars
Earl W. Bascom
1906
1995
cowboy historian
The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding
Rodrigo Bascunan
1976
non-fiction
Enter The Babylon System
Jean Basile
1932
1992
novelist, essayist
La Jument des mongols , Le Grand Khan , Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk
Michel Basilières
1960
novelist
Black Bird
Gurjinder Basran
1972
novelist
Everything Was Good-bye
Karen Bass
1962
young adult fiction
Graffiti Knight
Frédéric Bastien
1972
historian, journalist
La Bataille de Londres
Arjun Basu
novelist, short stories
Squishy , Waiting for the Man
Andrew Battershill
novelist
Pillow
Claire Battershill
short stories
Circus
Bill Bauer
1932
2010
poet
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Nancy Bauer
1934
arts journalist
Flora, Write This Down
Jeremy Bates
1978
novelist (suspense/horror)
Suicide Forest
Eli Baxter
1954
memoirist
Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
Kevin Bazzana
1963
music historian
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Tara Beagan
1975
playwright
Thy Neighbour's Wife , Deer Woman , The Ministry of Grace
Yves Beauchemin
1941
novelist
Juliette Pomerleau , Le Matou
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
1945
novelist, playwright
Doug Beardsley
1941
poet
Dancing Star
Jeann Beattie
1922
2005
novelist, journalist
Blaze of Noon , Behold the Hour , And the Tiger Leaps
Deni Ellis Béchard
1974
novelist
Vandal Love
Peter Behrens
1954
novelist, screenwriter, short-stories
The Law of Dreams
Henry Beissel
1929
non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator
Under Coyote's Eye
Jennifer Bélanger
1991
novelist
Menthol
Billy-Ray Belcourt
poet, memoirist
This Wound Is a World , A History of My Brief Body
Ken Belford
1946
2020
poet
Pathways into the Mountains
Donald Bell
1937
2003
journalist, humorist
Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory
William E. Bell
1945
2016
children's literature
Forbidden City
Winthrop Pickard Bell
1884
1965
historian
The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia
Lesley Belleau
poet
Indianland
Martin Bellemare
playwright
Le chant de Georges Boivin , Cœur minéral
Paul Bellini
1959
screenwriter, comedy
John Bemrose
1947
journalist, novelist, playwright, poet
The Island Walkers
Gwen Benaway
poet
Ceremonies for the Dead , Passage
Djemila Benhabib
1972
journalist, non-fiction
Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
Nigel Bennett
1949
fantasy novelist
Keeper of the King , His Father's Son
Roxanna Bennett
poet
Unmeaningable
David Bergen
1957
novelist
The Time in Between , A Year of Lesser
S. Bear Bergman
1974
playwright, poet
David Berman
1962
non-fiction
Do Good Design
Christophe Bernard
1982
novelist
La bête creuse
Jovette Bernier
1900
1981
journalist, novelist, poet
Non Monsieur
Sarah Bernstein
1987
novelist
Study for Obedience
Kris Bertin
short stories
Bad Things Happen
Pierre Berton
1920
2004
historian, journalist, memoirist
The National Dream , The Last Spike
Dennison Berwick
1956
adventure travel
Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami , A Walk Along The Ganges
Gérard Bessette
1920
2005
novelist
Le libraire , Le Cycle
H. S. Bhabra
1955
2000
novelist
The Adversary , Bad Money
Navtej Bharati
poet, publisher Third Eye Press
Leela
Shashi Bhat
novelist, short stories
The Family Took Shape , The Most Precious Substance on Earth
Dave Bidini
1963
journalist, non-fiction, songwriter
Around the World in 57½ Gigs , Tropic of Hockey
Anthony Bidulka
1962
mysteries
Flight of Aquavit , Sundowner Ubuntu
Nicolas Billon
1978
playwright, screenwriter
The Elephant Song , Iceland , Butcher
Pierre Billon
1937
novelist, screenwriter
Brandi Bird
poet
The All + Flesh
Will R. Bird
1891
1984
novelist, non-fiction
Here Stays Good Yorkshire , Judgment Glen
Sandra Birdsell
1942
novelist, short stories
The Rüsslander , The Two-Headed Calf
Earle Birney
1904
1995
poet, novelist, playwright, short stories
David and Other Poems , Turvey
Charlotte Biron
1990
novelist
Jardin radio
Carol Bishop-Gwyn
biographer, arts journalist
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
Bill Bissett
1939
experimental poet
nobody owns th earth
Lise Bissonnette
1945
novelist, journalist
Marie suivait l'été , Choses crus
Neil Bissoondath
1955
novelist
A Casual Brutality , Selling Illusions
Persimmon Blackbridge
1951
non-fiction, novelist
Prozac Highway
George G. Blackburn
1917
2006
creative non-fiction
The Guns of Normandy
Marthe Blackburn
1916
1991
screenwriter, dramatist
A Scream from Silence , Beyond Forty , Le retour de l’âge
Peggy Blair
non-fiction, novelist
Lament for a First Nation , The Beggar's Opera
Marie-Claire Blais
1939
2021
novelist, playwright, poet
Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel , La Belle Bête
Clark Blaise
1940
novelist, short stories, memoirist
Lunar Attractions , Montreal Stories
Cassandra Blanchard
poet
Fresh Pack of Smokes
Robin Blaser
1925
2009
essayist, poet
Christie Blatchford
1951
2020
journalist, writer and broadcaster
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Lance Blomgren
1970
short stories, essays
Walkups , Corner Pieces
Patricia Blondal
1926
1959
fiction, poet
A Candle to Light the Sun
Lise Blouin
1944
novelist
L'Ors des fous
Michael Blouin
1960
novelist, poet
Chase and Haven , Wore Down Trust
Martha Blum
1913
2007
historical fiction
The Walnut Tree , The Apothecary
Giles Blunt
1952
mysteries, screenwriter
Forty Words for Sorrow , Blackfly Season
Ali Blythe
poet
Twoism
Selina Boan
poet
Undoing Hours
Adam Bock
1961
playwright
The Receptionist , The Drunken City
Dennis Bock
1964
novelist, short stories
The Ash Garden
Maxime Raymond Bock
1981
novelist, short stories
Atavismes , Les noyades secondaires
Michel Bock
1971
historian, non-fiction
Quand la nation débordait les frontières
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
1972
novelist, short stories
The Lion Seeker
Shane Book
poet
Ceiling of Sticks , Congotronic
Walter Borden
1942
playwright, poet
Kathryn Borel
1979
memoirist
Corked
Roo Borson
1952
poet
Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
Monique Bosco
1927
2007
journalist, novelist, poet, short stories
La femme de Loth
Gérard Bouchard
1943
non-fiction, novelist
Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde
Michel Marc Bouchard
1958
playwright
Lilies , The Orphan Muses
Paul Bouchard
1908
1997
journalist
Eddy Boudel Tan
novelist
After Elias , The Rebellious Tide
Marsha Boulton
1952
humorist, journalist
Letters from the Country
Hédi Bouraoui
1932
poet, novelist
Vésuviade , La Femme d'entre les lignes
Pierre Bourgault
1934
2003
essayist, journalist
Arthur Bourinot
1893
1969
poet
Under the Sun
Pan Bouyoucas
1946
novelist, playwright, poet
The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea
Gail Bowen
1942
novelist, playwright
Joanne Kilbourn series
George Bowering
1935
biographer, novelist, poet
The Gangs of Kosmos , Burning Water
Marilyn Bowering
1949
poet, novelist, playwright
Visible Worlds , Autobiography
Cedar Bowers
novelist, short stories
Astra
Bonnie Bowman
novelist
Skin
Randy Boyagoda
1976
novelist, non-fiction
Governor of the Northern Province
David Boyd
1951
children's literature
Bottom Drawer
George Boyd
1952
2020
playwright, screenwriter
Consecrated Ground
Joseph Boyden
1966
novelist, short stories
Three Day Road , Through Black Spruce , The Orenda
Frances Boyle
poet, short stories
Seeking Shade
Harry J. Boyle
1915
2005
humorist, novelist
Homebrew and Patches , Luck of the Irish
D. M. Bradford
poet
Dream of No One But Myself
Karleen Bradford
1936
children's literature
There Will Be Wolves
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
1963
2008
essayist, novelist, poet
Max Braithwaite
1911
1995
novelist, non-fiction
The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
Shannon Bramer
1973
poet
The Refrigerator Memory
Alan Bradley
1938
mystery
Flavia de Luce series
Dionne Brand
1953
essayist, novelist, poet
What We All Long For , Land to Light On
Di Brandt
1952
poet, literary critic
Jerusalem, beloved , Now You Care
Beth Brant
1941
2015
André Brassard
1946
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
Morwyn Brebner
playwright, television writer
Music for Contortionist , The Optimist , Saving Hope , Rookie Blue
Brian Brett
1950
novelist, memoirist, poet
Uproar's Your Only Music , The Fungus Garden
Krista Bridge
novelist, short stories
The Virgin Spy , The Eliot Girls
Robert Bringhurst
1946
poet, author, typographer
The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82 , Ursa Major
Barry Broadfoot
1926
2003
historian
Six War Years , The Immigrant Years
Hélène Brodeur
1923
2010
historical fiction
Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario , The Saga of Northern Ontario
Eve Brodlique
1867
1949
author, journalist
A Training School for Lovers
David Bromige
1933
2009
poet
My Poetry
Frances Brooke
1724
1789
novelist, essayist
The History of Emily Montague
Bertram Brooker
1888
1955
novelist, artist
Think of the Earth
Carellin Brooks
novelist, non-fiction
One Hundred Days of Rain , Wreck Beach
Nicole Brossard
1943
novelist, poet
Double impression , Méchanique jongleuse
Chrystine Brouillet
1958
novelist, children's literature
Sigmund Brouwer
1959
children's literature
Watch Out for Joel!
Charles Tory Bruce
1906
1971
poet, novelist, journalist
The Mulgrave Road
Julie Bruck
1957
poet
The Woman Downstairs , Monkey Ranch
Tyler Brûlé
1968
journalist
Gaétan Brulotte
1945
academic, novelist, playwright, short stories
Nick Brune
1952
historian
Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture
Carol Bruneau
1956
novelist
Purple for Sky
Louis-Ovide Brunet
1826
1876
botany
Michel Brunet
1917
1985
historian
Les Canadiens après la conquête
Cathy Marie Buchanan
1963
novelist
The Day the Falls Stood Still , The Painted Girls
Ernest Buckler
1908
1984
novelist
The Mountain and the Valley
Margaret Buffie
1945
children's literature
Who Is Frances Rain? , The Dark Garden , The Watcher
Gilbert Buote
1833
1904
journalist
Kayt Burgess
novelist
Heidegger Stairwell
Tony Burgess
1959
novelist, screenwriter
Pontypool Changes Everything
Nathan Burgoine
novelist, short stories
Light
Ronnie Burkett
1957
playwright
Tinka's New Dress
Mabel Burkholder
1881
1973
historian
Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories
Bonnie Burnard
1945
2017
novelist
A Good House
Murdoch Burnett
1953
2015
poet
Centre of the World: A Plains Journey , We Are Not Romans
Richard Burnett
journalist
Lawrence J. Burpee
1873
1946
historian
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History
Mick Burrs
1940
2021
poet
Variations on the Birth of Jacob
Frank Christopher Busch
1978
novelist
Grey Eyes
Catherine Bush
1961
novelist
Minus Time , The Rules of Engagement
Arthur de Bussières
1877
1913
poet
Les Bengalis
Sharon Butala
1940
novelist
The Perfection of the Morning
Alec Butler
1959
playwright
Black Friday
Michelle Butler Hallett
novelist, short stories, non-fiction
This Marlowe , Constant Nobody
C
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Charmaine Cadeau
poet
Placeholder
Cody Caetano
memoirist
Half-Bads in White Regalia
Frank Oliver Call
1878
1956
poet, travel
Acanthus and Wild Grape , Sonnets for Youth
Barry Callaghan
1937
novelist, journalist
Barrelhouse Kings
Morley Callaghan
1903
1990
novelist, short stories
A Fine and Private Place
Anne Cameron
1938
novelist, poet, short stories
Daughters of Copper Woman
Elspeth Cameron
1943
biographer
No Previous Experience
George Frederick Cameron
1854
1885
poet, lawyer, journalist
Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta)
Silver Donald Cameron
1937
2020
non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist
Sailing Away From Winter
Curtis Campbell
playwright
Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Grace Campbell
1895
1963
novelist
Thorn-apple Tree
Nicola I. Campbell
poetry, children's literature, memoir
Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe
Natalee Caple
1970
novelist
The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World
Pat Capponi
1949
2020
memoirist, mystery novelist
Upstairs in the Crazy House
Cliff Cardinal
playwright
The Land Acknowledgement
Opal Carew
1956
romantic novelist
His To Possess
Dave Carley
1953
playwright
Writing With Our Feet
Louis Carmain
1983
novelist
Guano
Bliss Carman
1861
1929
poet
Low Tide on Grand Pré
Jean-François Caron
1978
poet, novelist
De bois debout
Louis Caron
1942
novelist, television
L'Emmitouflé , Le Canard de bois , La Corne de brume
David Carpenter
1941
novelist, poet, essayist
A Hunter's Confession
Emily Carr
1871
1945
novelist, short stories
Klee Wyck , The Book of Small , Hundreds and Thousands
Roch Carrier
1937
novelist, short stories
La Guerre, Yes Sir! , Le chandail de hockey
Anne Carson
1950
poet
Autobiography of Red
Anne Laurel Carter
1953
children's fiction
The Shepherd's Granddaughter
Allan Casey
non-fiction
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Kate Cayley
novelist, dramatist, poet
How You Were Born , The Hangman in the Mirror , After Akhmatova
Denys Chabot
1945
novelist, historian
L'Eldorado dans les glaces , La Province lunaire
Sébastien Chabot
1976
novelist
Noir métal
Éric Chacour
1983
novelist
Ce que je sais de toi
Perry Chafe
1969
television writer, novelist
Republic of Doyle , Closer by Sea
Robert Chafe
1971
playwright
Afterimage , Tempting Providence
Soufiane Chakkouche
1977
novelist
Zahra
Francis Chalifour
1977
creative non-fiction
After
Gillian Chan
1954
children's literature
Glory Days and Other Stories
Robert Charbonneau
1911
1967
novelist
Ils posséderont la terre , Fontile
David Chariandy
1969
novelist
Soucouyant , Brother
Lyne Charlebois
screenwriter
Borderline
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
1682
1761
historian
Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France
Normand Chaurette
1954
playwright
Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans , Le Passage de l'Indiana , Ce qui meurt en dernier
Évelyne de la Chenelière
1975
playwright, novelist
Désordre public , Bashir Lazhar
Herménégilde Chiasson
1946
poet, playwright
Conversations
Philip Child
1898
1978
novelist
Day of Wrath , Mr. Ames Against Time
Anne Chislett
1942
playwright
Quiet in the Land , The Tomorrow Box
Ann Y. K. Choi
author
Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
Ins Choi
1974
playwright
Kim's Convenience
Gabriel Cholette
memoirist
Carnets de l'underground
Corinna Chong
novelist, short stories
Bad Land
Denise Chong
1953
memoirist
The Concubine's Children
Kevin Chong
1975
novelist, memoirist
My Year of the Racehorse , Neil Young Nation , Beauty plus Pity
Wayson Choy
1939
2019
novelist, memoirist
The Jade Peony , All That Matters , Paper Shadows
Lesley Choyce
1951
poet, novelist, non-fiction
The Republic of Nothing
Michael Christie
short stories
The Beggar's Garden ; If I Fall, If I Die
Jane Christmas
1954
travel, memoirist
And Then There Were Nuns
S. D. Chrostowska
novelist, non-fiction, aphorist
Permission , The Eyelid , Matches: A Light Book
Eliza Clark
1963
novelist
Bite the Stars
Greg Clark
1892
1977
humorist
War Stories
Joan Clark
1934
2023
novelist
Latitudes of Melt , The Hand of Robin Squires
Austin Clarke
1934
2016
novelist
The Polished Hoe , Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
George Elliott Clarke
1960
poet, novelist, dramatist
Whylah Falls , George and Rue , Black
Stéfanie Clermont
1988
novelist
Le jeu de la musique
David Clerson
1978
novelist
Frères , En rampant , Dormir sans tête
Mabel Clint
1874
1939
novelist, nurse
Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister
Fabien Cloutier
1976
dramatist
Pour réussir un poulet
Lynn Coady
1970
novelist
Saints of Big Harbour , Strange Heaven , Hellgoing
Mark Coakley
true crime
Tip and Trade
Devon Code
novelist, short stories
In a Mist , Involuntary Bliss , Disintegration in Four Parts
Lisa Codrington
playwright
Cast Iron , Up the Garden Path
Fred Cogswell
1917
2004
poet
Leonard Cohen
1934
2016
poet, novelist, singer-songwriter
Beautiful Losers
Matt Cohen
1942
1999
novelist
Emotional Arithmetic , Elizabeth and After
Susan G. Cole
1952
journalist
Pornography and the Sex Crisis , Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography
Trevor Cole
1960
novelist
The Fearsome Particles , Practical Jean
Anne Coleman
creative non-fiction
I'll Tell You a Secret
Layne Coleman
playwright
Blue City Slammers
Victor Coleman
1944
poet
Don Coles
1927
2017
poet
Forests of the Medieval World
Ruth Collie
1888
1936
poet
Known as the Poem a Day Lady
John Robert Colombo
1936
poet, reference book compiler
Colombo's Canadian Quotations , Colombo's Canadian References
Daria Colonna
1989
poet
Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle , La Voleuse
Wayde Compton
1972
poet, essays, short fiction
Bill Conall
novelist, humorist
The Promised Land
Christy Ann Conlin
novelist, short stories
Heave , The Memento , Watermark
Jan Conn
1952
poet, insect geneticist
South of the Tudo Bem Cafe
Karen Connelly
1969
travel, novelist, poet
Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage
Kevin Connolly
1962
poet, editor
Drift , Revolver
Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon)
1860
1937
novelist, essayist
The Man from Glengarry , Glengarry School Days , The Sky Pilot
Darla Contois
playwright
The War Being Waged
George Ramsay Cook
1931
2016
historian
Hugh Cook
1942
novelist
Michael Cook
1933
1994
playwright
Jacob's Wake
Tim Cook
1971
military historian
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918 , No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
Dennis Cooley
1944
poet
Irene
Beverley Cooper
playwright
Thin Ice , Innocence Lost
Douglas Cooper
1960
novelist
Amnesia , Delirium
Paige Cooper
short stories
Zolitude
Ann Copeland
1932
short stories
The Golden Thread
Judith Copithorne
1939
poet
Carole Corbeil
1952
2000
novelist, journalist
Voice-Over , In the Wings
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
1985
playwright
Scratch
Amanda Cordner
playwright
Body So Fluorescent , Wring the Roses
David Cormican
1981
screenwriter, producer
Northern Rescue , Réveillon
Michael Cormican
1948
2023
author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse
A Long Way From Tipperary
Thomas B. Costain
1885
1965
historical fiction, non-fiction
Below the Salt , Ride with Me , The Black Rose , The Silver Chalice
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave
1890
1971
non-fiction
Afterthoughts of Armageddon
Douglas Coupland
1961
novelist
Generation X , Girlfriend in a Coma
Kevin Courrier
1954
2018
biographer, music and film critic
Randy Newman's American Dreams , Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream
Maya Cousineau Mollen
1975
poet
Bréviaire du matricule 082 , Enfants du lichen
Saros Cowasjee
1931
2019
novelist
Goodbye to Elsa
Hugh Cowan
1867
1943
historian
Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814
James Alexander Cowan
1901
1978
writer, columnist
Daniel Allen Cox
1976
novelist
Shuck , Tattoo This Madness In
Ivan Coyote
1969
spoken-word poet, columnist
Bow Grip
Archie Crail
1944
playwright, short stories
Exile , The Bonus Deal
Isabella Valancy Crawford
1846
1887
poet, freelance
Old Spookses' Pass
Donald Creighton
1902
1979
historian
John A. Macdonald
Luella Creighton
1901
1996
historical fiction, children's non-fiction
High Bright Buggy Wheels
Octave Crémazie
1827
1879
poet
Eva Crocker
short stories
Barrelling Forward
Lynn Crosbie
1963
poet, novelist
Life Is About Losing Everything
Caleigh Crow
playwright
There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Lorna Crozier
1948
poet
Inventing the Hawk , Everything Arrives at the Light
Michael Crummey
1965
poet, novelist, non-fiction
Galore , Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents
Nancy Jo Cullen
poet, short stories
Science Fiction Saint , Pearl , Untitled Child , Canary
Alan Cumyn
1960
novelist
The Secret Life of Owen Skye , Dear Sylvia
Peter Cureton
1965
1994
playwright
Passages
Andrea Curtis
creative non-fiction
Into the Blue
Herb Curtis
1949
novelist, humorist
The Last Tasmanian , Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Kayla Czaga
1989
poet
For Your Safety Please Hold On
D
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Antonio D'Alfonso
1953
poet, novelist, bilingual writer
The Other Shore , L'autre rivage , Fabrizio's Passion , Un vendredi du mois d'aout
Michel Dallaire
1957
2017
novelist, poet
Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne
Roméo Dallaire
1946
documentarian, memoirist, activist
Shake Hands with the Devil , They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
Anne Dandurand
1953
novelist
Louis Dantin
1865
1945
poet, critic
Le Coffret de Crusoé , Gloses critiques
Jean-Paul Daoust
1946
poet, novelist, short stories
Les Cendres bleues , Black Diva
Peter Darbyshire
novelist
Please
Jill Daum
playwright
Forget About Tomorrow
Frank Davey
1940
poet
Craig Davidson
1976
novelist, short stories
Rust and Bone , Cataract City
True Davidson
1901
1978
poet, fiction, non-fiction
The Golden Strings
Blodwen Davies
1897
1966
historian
A Study of Tom Thomson
Lynn Davies
1954
poet
The Bridge That Carries the Road , Where Sound Pools
Robertson Davies
1913
1995
novelist
Fifth Business , What's Bred in the Bone
Lauren B. Davis
1955
novelist, short stories
Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market
Amber Dawn
novelist, anthologist
Sub Rosa
Caroline Dawson
1979
2024
novelist, poet, children's literature
Là où je me terre
Nicholas Dawson
1982
novelist, poet, non-fiction
Désormais, ma demeure
Frank Parker Day
1881
1950
novelist
Rockbound , John Paul's Rock
Claire Dé
1953
novelist, short stories
Bonjour, oiseau rare , Le désir comme catastrophe naturel
Alfred Duclos DeCelles
1843
1925
journalist, librarian
The 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion
Mazo de la Roche
1879
1961
novelist
Jalna
Charles de Lint
1951
fantasy
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
short stories, poet
How to Get Along With Women
Sadiqa de Meijer
1977
short stories, poet
Leaving Howe Island
James de Mille
1833
1880
novelist
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
1912
1943
poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories
Regards et Jeux dans l'espace , Œuvres en prose , Journal 1929–1939
Marq de Villiers
1940
journalist, magazine editor, science
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Anthony de Sa
novelist, short stories
Barnacle Love
Patrick deWitt
1975
novelist
The Sisters Brothers
Michael Delisle
1959
novelist, poet, short stories
Le sort de fille , Le Feu de mon père
Martine Delvaux
1968
novelist, non-fiction
Blanc dehors
David Demchuk
playwright, novelist
The Bone Mother , Touch , If Betty Should Rise
Sandra Dempsey
1956
Barry Dempster
1952
Dennis Denisoff
novelist, poet, academic
Dog Years , The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
Randall Denley
journalist, novelist
The Perfect Candidate
Adebe DeRango-Adem
poet
Terra Incognita , Vox Humana
Martine Desjardins
1957
novelist
Le Cercle de Clara , L'Évocation , Maleficium
Roxane Desjardins
1991
writer, editor
Ciseaux
Léo-Paul Desrosiers
1896
1967
journalist, novelist
Les Engagés du Grand Portage
Henriette Dessaulles
1860
1946
journalist, diarist
Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881
William Deverell
1937
mysteries, screenwriter
Trial of Passion , April Fool
Alexander Dewdney
1941
computer science, philosophy
Christopher Dewdney
1951
Selwyn Hanington Dewdney
1909
1979
novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author
Wind Without Rain
Myrna Dey
novelist, journalist
Extensions
Ranj Dhaliwal
1976
novelist
Daaku , The Gangster's Life
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
1949
2019
poet
The Tough Romance , Virgin Science , Living in Paradise
David Di Giovanni
playwright
Body So Fluorescent , Wring the Roses
Mary di Michele
1949
poet, novelist
Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New , Tenor of Love
Ann Diamond
1951
poet, novelist, short stories
A Nun's Diary , Evil Eye
Don Dickinson
1947
novelist, short stories
Blue Husbands , The Crew
Nicolas Dickner
1972
novelist, short stories
Nikolski
Cherie Dimaline
1975
novelist, short stories
The Marrow Thieves
Christopher DiRaddo
1974
novelist
The Geography of Pluto , The Family Way
Dorothy Dittrich
playwright
The Dissociates , The Piano Teacher
Sean Dixon
playwright
1492 , A God in Need of Help
Sandra Djwa
1939
biography, literary criticism
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
Kildare Dobbs
1923
2013
short stories
Farzana Doctor
novelist
Stealing Nasreen , Six Metres of Pavement
Cory Doctorow
1971
science fiction
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , Little Brother
Jeramy Dodds
1974
poet
Crabwise to the Hounds
M. T. Dohaney
1930
novelist, short stories
The Corrigan Women
Bob Dolman
1949
screenwriter
SCTV
Don Domanski
1950
2020
Fernand Dorais
1928
2003
academic literature, erotica
Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury , Témoins d'errances en Ontario français , Hermaphrodismes
Candas Jane Dorsey
1952
science fiction
Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth
Clive Doucet
1946
Lily Dougall
1858
1923
author
A Question of Faith
Arthur Doughty
1860
1936
historian
Canada and its Provinces , (23 vols)
Orville Lloyd Douglas
1976
poet
James Doull
1918
2001
philosopher
Philippa Dowding
children's literature
Oculum , Firefly
Glen Downey
1969
children's literature
Brian Doyle
1935
young adult fiction
Brian Drader
1960
playwright
Prok , The Fruit Machine , The Norbals
Stan Dragland
1942
2022
fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays
Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9 , Peckertracks , Apocrypha: Further Journeys
Sylvie Drapeau
1962
novelist
Le Fleuve , La Terre
Don Druick
1945
playwright
Where Is Kabuki? , Through the Eyes
William Henry Drummond
1854
1907
poet
The Habitant
Klara du Plessis
poet
Ekke
Marcel Dubé
1930
2016
Peter Dubé
novelist, short stories
Hovering World , At the Bottom of the Sky
Réjean Ducharme
1941
2017
Louis Dudek
1918
2001
poet
Margaret Duley
1894
1968
novelist
The Eyes of the Gull
Dawn Dumont
novelist, short stories
Nobody Cries at Bingo , Rose's Run
Dave Duncan
1933
2018
Sandy Frances Duncan
1942
novels, short fiction, mysteries
Cariboo Runaway , Gold Rush Orphan , Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island
Sara Jeannette Duncan
1861
1922
novelist, journalist
The Imperialist
Warren Dunford
1963
novelist
Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture , Making a Killing , The Scene Stealer
Nina Dunic
short stories, novelist
The Clarion
Norma Dunning
short stories
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
Kristyn Dunnion
1969
novelist, short stories
Big Big Sky , The Dirt Chronicles
Éric Dupont
1970
novelist
La Logeuse , La fiancée américaine
Douglas Durkin
1884
1967
novelist, screenwriter
The Magpie
E
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Lawrence Earl
1915
2005
novelist, journalist
Yangtse Incident , The Battle of Baltinglass
Edith Maude Eaton
1865
1914
short stories
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Evelyn Eaton
1902
1983
novelist, poet
Quietly My Captain Waits
Chris Eaton
1971
novelist, music
The Inactivist , The Grammar Architect
Winnifred Eaton
1875
1954
novelist
A Japanese Nightingale
James Eayrs
1926
2021
historian
In Defence of Canada
Kim Echlin
1955
novelist
The Disappeared
David Eddie
novelist, humorist
Chump Change , Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad , Damage Control
Esi Edugyan
1978
novelist
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne , Half-Blood Blues , Washington Black
Caterina Edwards
1948
novelist, playwright, short story writer
The Lion's Mouth , Island of the Nightingales , The Sicilian Wife
Modris Eksteins
1943
historian
Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century , Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
Francesca Ekwuyasi
novelist
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Rima Elkouri
novelist, journalist
Manam
George Elliott
1923
1996
short stories
The Kissing Man , Crazy Water Boys
Deborah Ellis
1960
non-fiction, young adult fiction
The Breadwinner , The Heaven Shop
Sarah Ellis
1952
children's literature
Odd Man Out , Pick Up Sticks
Louis Émond
1969
novelist
The Manuscript
Marina Endicott
1958
novelist
Good to a Fault , The Little Shadows , Close to Hugh , The Difference
Howard Engel
1931
2019
mysteries
The Suicide Murders
Marian Engel
1933
1985
novelist
Bear
Yves Engler
1979
politics, activist
Playing Left Wing
Sharon English
1965
short stories
Zero Gravity
Karen Enns
poet
That Other Beauty , Cloud Physics
Steven Erikson
1959
novelist
Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Ann Eriksson
1956
novelist
In the Hands of Anubis
Thom Ernst
film critic, memoirist
The Wild Boy of Waubamik
Gloria Escomel
1941
novelist, dramatist, journalist
Pièges , Fruit de la passion
Robin Esrock
1974
travel writer
The Great Canadian Bucket List ,The Great Global Bucket List
Michael Estok
1939
1989
poet
A Plague Year Journal
Hubert Evans
1892
1986
novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature
Mist on the River
Jon Evans
1973
novelist
Dark Places
Stanley Evans
1931
novelist
Seaweed series of crime fiction
F
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Emil Fackenheim
1916
2003
historian, philosopher
Jean Mohsen Fahmy
1942
novelist, short stories, literary criticism
L'Agonie des dieux , La sultane dévoilée
Terry Fallis
1959
humorist
The Best Laid Plans
Alain Farah
1979
novelist, poet
Matamore no 29 , Pourquoi Boulogne
Abla Farhoud
1945
2021
novelist, playwright
Le bonheur a la queue glissante , La Possession du Prince
Edmundo Farolan
1943
2023
poet, playwright, novelist
Itinerancias , Hexalogia Teatral , Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer
Brian Fawcett
1944
2022
novelist, non-fiction
Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown , Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
Charles Fenerty
1821
1892
poet, journalist, inventor
Betula Nigra , Essay on Progress
Linda Rui Feng
novelist
Swimming Back to Trout River
Ian Ferguson
playwright, humorist
Village of the Small Houses
Max Ferguson
1924
2013
humorist
And Now... Here's Max
Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow
1947
novelist, playwright
Will Ferguson
1964
humorist, novelist, travel writer
Why I Hate Canadians , Happiness , 419
Raoul Fernandes
poet
Transmitter and Receiver
Paola Ferrante
poet, short stories
What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack , Her Body Among Animals
Jacques Ferron
1921
1985
playwright
Madeleine Ferron
1922
2010
novelist
La fin des loups-garous
George Fetherling
1949
Charlotte Fielden
1932
2021
Joy Fielding
1945
novelist
Connie Fife
1961
2017
poet
Beneath the Naked Sun , Poems for a New World
Timothy Findley
1930
2002
novelist, dramatist, short stories
The Wars , The Piano Man's Daughter
Lois Fine
playwright
Freda and Jem's Best of the Week
Larry Fineberg
1945
playwright
Eve , Human Remains , Failure of Nerve
Joe Fiorito
1948
novelist, columnist, memoirist
The Song Beneath the Ice
Sheree Fitch
1956
poet, novelist, children's fiction
Mabel Murple , Kiss the Joy As It Flies
James FitzGerald
non-fiction
Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College , What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
Judith Fitzgerald
1952
2015
Polly Fleck
1933
2019
poet
The Chinese Execution
Anne Fleming
1964
May Agnes Fleming
1840
1880
novelist
The Midnight Queen , Queen of the Isle , Lost for a Woman
Cynthia Flood
1940
novelist, short stories
My Father Took a Cake to France , Making a Stone of the Heart , Red Girl Rat Boy
Lisa Foad
short stories, journalist
The Night Is a Mouth
Waawaate Fobister
playwright
Agokwe
Jacques Folch-Ribas
1928
novelist
Une aurore boréale , Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur
Naomi Fontaine
1987
novelist
Kuessipan , Manikanetish , Shuni
Dennis Foon
1951
Charles Foran
1960
novelist
Butterfly Lovers , Carolan's Farewell , House on Fire
John-James Ford
1972
Paul Serge Forest
novelist
Tout est ori
André Forget
novelist
In the City of Pigs
Helen Forrester
1919
2011
novelist
Dominique Fortier
1972
novelist
Du bon usage des étoiles , Au péril de la mer
Carley Fortune
1985
novelist
Every Summer After , Meet Me at the Lake
Cecil Foster
1954
Marion Foster
1924
1997
mysteries
The Monarchs Are Flying , Legal Tender
Martin Fournier
1954
historian, young adult literature
The Adventures of Radisson
Roger Fournier
1929
2012
novelist, screenwriter
Le cercle des arènes , A Day in a Taxi
Barbara Fradkin
Tess Fragoulis
Brian Francis
1971
novelist
Fruit
Brad Fraser
1959
playwright
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
John Anderson Fraser
1866
1960
Keath Fraser
1944
Raymond Fraser
1941
2018
Rum River , In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke , When The Earth Was Flat , In Another Life
Sylvia Fraser
1935
novelist
Louis Fréchette
1839
1908
poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Pauline Fréchette
1889
1943
poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
David French
1939
2010
playwright
Maida Parlow French
novelist, artist, biographer
Kathy Friedman
short stories
All the Shining People
Patrick Friesen
1946
Mark Frutkin
1948
Northrop Frye
1912
1991
critic
Anatomy of Criticism
Kim Fu
1987
novelist
For Today I Am a Boy
Robert Fulford
1932
journalist
Janine Fuller
1958
non-fiction
Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial , Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pik-Shuen Fung
novelist
Ghost Forest
Wes Funk
1969
2015
novelist
Dead Rock Stars , Baggage
Nicola Furlong
G
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Brendan Gall
1978
playwright, screenwriter
Wide Awake Hearts
Mavis Gallant
1922
2014
short stories
From the Fifteenth District , Home Truths , Paris Notebooks
Steven Galloway
1975
novelist
The Cellist of Sarajevo
François-Xavier Garneau
1809
1866
historian
History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
1912
1943
poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories
Regards et Jeux dans l'espace , Œuvres en prose , Journal 1929-1939
Hugh Garner
1913
1979
novelist
Cabbagetown
Alfred Garrioch
1848
1934
novelist
First Furrows
Elyse Gasco
1967
short stories
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Bill Gaston
1953
novelist, short stories
The Order of Good Cheer , Mount Appetite
C. E. Gatchalian
1974
playwright
Motifs & Repetitions , Falling in Time
Connie Gault
1949
playwright, novelist, short stories
Sky , Euphoria , A Beauty
Daniel Gawthrop
1963
journalist, biographer
Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter
Pauline Gedge
1945
novelist
Stargate , House of Illusions
John Geiger
non-fiction author
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition
Karoline Georges
1970
novelist, poet
De synthèse
Shree Ghatage
1957
novelist, short story writer
Awake When All the World Is Asleep
Camilla Gibb
1968
novelist
Sweetness in the Belly
John Murray Gibbon
1875
1952
non-fiction, novelist
Canadian Mosaic
Chantal Gibson
poet
How She Read
Douglas Gibson
1943
editor, publisher, memoirist
Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others
Graeme Gibson
1934
2019
novelist
Five Legs , Perpetual Motion
Margaret Gibson
1948
2006
novelist, short stories
The Butterfly Ward , Opium Dreams
William Gibson
1948
science fiction
Neuromancer , All Tomorrow's Parties
Sky Gilbert
1952
playwright
Brother Dumb , Drag Queens in Outer Space
Charlotte Gill
short stories, non-fiction
Ladykiller , Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
John Patrick Gillese
1926
1999
novelist, short stories
Kirby's Gander
Curtis Gillespie
1960
short stories, non-fiction, novels
The Progress of an Object in Motion , Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast
David Gilmour
1949
novelist
A Perfect Night to Go to China
M-E Girard
young adult literature
Girl Mans Up
Malcolm Gladwell
1963
journalist, sociologist
The Tipping Point , Outliers , Talking to Strangers
Joanna Glass
1936
playwright
If We Are Women , Trying
John Glassco
1909
1981
poet, translator, memoirist
Memoirs of Montparnasse
Paul Glennon
short stories, young adult literature
The Dodecahedron , Bookweird
Susan Glickman
1953
poet, novelist, critic
The Violin Lover , The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
Douglas Glover
1948
novelist
Elle , The Life and Times of Captain N
Jacques Godbout
1933
novelist
Salut Galarneau! , Une histoire américaine
Dave Godfrey
1938
2015
novelist
The New Ancestors
Philip H. Godsell
1889
1961
writer
Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
Glenda Goertzen
1967
novelist
The Prairie Dogs
Nora Gold
1952
writer
Fields of Exile, The Dead Man, Marrow And Other Stories,18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas)
Oliver Goldsmith
1794
1861
poet
The Rising Village
Gabriella Goliger
1949
novelist, short stories
Song of Ascent , Girl Unwrapped
Leona Gom
1946
novelist, mysteries, poet
Housebroken , Freeze Frame
Michelle Good
novelist
Five Little Indians
Alison Gordon
1943
2015
sports journalist, mysteries
The Dead Pull Hitter , Prairie Hardball
Charles Gordon
1940
newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist
The Governor General's Bunny Hop , The Canada Trip
Phyllis Gotlieb
1926
2009
poet, science fiction
A Judgement of Dragons
Sondra Gotlieb
1936
newspaper columnist
True Confections
Hiromi Goto
1966
science fiction
Chorus of Mushrooms , The Kappa Child
John Gould
short stories
Kilter: 55 Fictions
Nora Gould
poet
I see my love more clearly from a distance , Selah
George R. D. Goulet
1933
historian
The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied , The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities , Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers , The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony
Terry Goulet
1934
historian
The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied (researcher), The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities , Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers , The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony
Katherine Govier
1948
novelist
Angel Walk , The Truth Teller
Lee Gowan
1961
novelist
Make Believe Love , The Last Cowboy
Barbara Gowdy
1950
novelist, short stories
The Romantic , The White Bone
Wayne Grady
1948
novelist, memoir, science
Emancipation Day , Breakfast at the Exit Café
Gwethalyn Graham
1913
1965
novelist
Earth and High Heaven
Neile Graham
1958
poet
Spells for Clear Vision , Blood Memory
Martin Allerdale Grainger
1874
1941
novelist, journalist
Woodsmen of the West
Jack Granatstein
1939
historian
Linda Granfield
1950
children's literature
In Flanders Fields
E. M. Granger Bennett
1988
historical fiction
Short of the Glory
George Grant
1918
1988
historian, philosopher
Lament for a Nation
Hilda Kay Grant
1910
1996
writer, artist
The Salt Box
Jessica Grant
1972
novelist, short stories
Come, Thou Tortoise
Élise Gravel
1977
children's literature, graphic novels
Le Grand Antonio , La clé à molette
François Gravel
1951
novelist
Ostende , Fillion et frères , Adieu, Betty Crocker
Charlotte Gray
1948
novelist, non-fiction
Mrs. King
R. W. Gray
short stories
Crisp , Entropic
Ethel Grayson
1890
1980
novelist, poet
Lowell Green
1936
history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism
Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada!
Nick Green
playwright
Body Politic
Robert Joseph Greene
1973
children's literature, romantic fiction
This High School Has Closets , The Gay Icon Classics of the World
Ed Greenwood
1959
fantasy
Forgotten Realms
Darren Greer
1968
novelist
Still Life with June , Just Beneath My Skin
James Gregor
novelist
Going Dutch
Doris Gregory
autobiographer
How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
Daniel Grenier
1980
novelist, short stories
L’année la plus longue
Taras Grescoe
creative non-fiction
Sacré Blues
Grey Owl
1888
1938
conservationist
Grey Owl and the Beaver , City of the Ancients
Francis William Grey
1860
1939
novelist, poet, non-fiction
The Curé of St. Philippe
Claude-Henri Grignon
1894
1976
novelist, satirist
Un Homme et son péché
G. A. Grisenthwaite
novelist, short stories, poet
Home Waltz
Lionel Groulx
1878
1967
historian
The Call of the Race
Frederick Phillip Grove
1879
1948
novelist
Settlers of the Marsh , Consider Her Ways
Brett Josef Grubisic
1963
novelist, critic
The Age of Cities
Katia Grubisic
1978
poet, short stories
what if red ran out
Agnès Gruda
journalist, short story writer
Onze petites trahisons
Christian Guay-Poliquin
1982
novelist
Le fil des kilomètres , Le poids de la neige
Germaine Guèvremont
1893
1968
novelist, short stories
Le Survenant , Marie-Didace
Genni Gunn
1949
novelist, poet
Tracing Iris , Faceless
Kristjana Gunnars
1948
poet, novelist
Settlement Poems , One-Eyed Moon Maps
Stephen Guppy
1951
poet, novelist, short stories
Understanding Heaven , The Work of Mercy
David Gurr
1936
novelist, playwright
The Ring Master
Ralph Gustafson
1909
1995
poet
Fire on Stone
Don Gutteridge
1937
poet, novelist
Guy Lawson
1963
journalist
War Dogs
Sandra Gwyn
1935
2000
journalist
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
H
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Samra Habib
photographer, memoirist
We Have Always Been Here
Chris Hadfield
1959
scientist, memoirist, essayist, musician
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth , You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
Rawi Hage
1964
novelist
De Niro's Game , Cockroach , Carnival
Joan Haggerty
1940
Medina Hahn
playwright
Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Roderick Haig-Brown
1908
1976
Ken Haigh
1962
memoirist
Under the Holy Lake , On Foot to Canterbury
Arthur Hailey
1920
2004
novelist
Hotel , Airport
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
1796
1865
The Clockmaker
Phil Hall
1953
poet
Killdeer
Louis Hamelin
1959
novelist, short stories, literary critic
La Rage , Sauvages , La Constellation du Lynx
Ian Hamilton
1946
journalist, mysteries
The Water Rat of Wanchai , The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Jane Eaton Hamilton
1954
Body Rain , July Nights , Hunger
Lyn Hancock
1938
There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag , There's a Raccoon in my Parka , Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon
Angeline Hango
1909
1995
novelist, journalist
Truthfully Yours
Catherine Hanrahan
novelist
Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Kevin Hardcastle
1980
novelist, short stories
Debris
Robin Hardy
1952
1995
novelist, journalist
Call of the Wendigo , Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood
Robyn Harding
1969
novelist
The Drowning Woman , The Perfect Family , The Arrangement , Her Pretty Face , and The Party
Robert Harlow
1923
novelist
Scann
Liz Harmer
novelist
The Amateurs
Jennica Harper
poet, television writer
Wood , Bounce House , Jann
Alexander Harris
1805
1874
novelist
Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods
Claire Harris
1937
2018
Dorothy Joan Harris
1931
children's literature
Marjorie Harris
1937
gardening
Seasons of My Garden
Michael Harris
1944
poet
Circus
Michael Harris
1948
journalist
Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall
Michael Harris
1980
non-fiction, young adult literature
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Keith Harrison
1945
2019
novelist
Eyemouth , Furry Creek
Jill Hartman
1974
Diana Hartog
1942
poet, novelist
Matinee Light , Candy from Strangers , The Photographer's Sweethearts
Kristen den Hartog
1965
Kenneth J. Harvey
1962
novelist
Directions for an Opened Body , Brud , Blackstrap Hawco
Kim Senklip Harvey
playwright
Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
Elisabeth Harvor
1936
novelist, poet
Let Me Be the One , Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Erum Shazia Hasan
novelist
We Meant Well
Liedewy Hawke
translator
Barbara Haworth-Attard
1953
Elizabeth Hay
1951
novelist, non-fiction
Late Nights on Air , A Student of Weather , The Only Snow in Havana
Elliott Hayes
1956
1994
Matthew Hays
film critic, journalist
The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
Steven Hayward
novelist, short stories
Buddha Stevens and Other Stories , The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke
Charles Heavysege
1816
1876
poet
Saul
Anne Hébert
1916
2000
novelist, poet, short stories, novellas
Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent
Maurice Hébert
1888
1960
novelist, poet
Le Cycle de Don Juan
Steven Heighton
1961
2022
novelist, poet
The Shadow Boxer
Sydney Hegele
short stories
The Pump
William C. Heine
1919
1991
novelist, newspaper editor
The Last Canadian
Matthew Heiti
novelist, screenwriter, playwright
Son of the Sunshine , The City Still Breathing
Tyler Hellard
novelist
Searching for Terry Punchout
Michael Helm
1961
novelist, editor
The Projectionist , In the Place of Last Things
David Helwig
1938
2018
novelist, poet
Figures in a Landscape , A Sound Like Laughter
Maggie Helwig
1961
Louis Hémon
1880
1913
novelist, journalist
Maria Chapdelaine
Lee Henderson
novelist, short stories
The Broken Record Technique , The Man Game , Disintegration in Four Parts
Maurice Henrie
1936
novelist, short stories, non-fiction
Le Balcon dans le ciel
Sarah Henstra
novelist
Mad Miss Mimic , The Red Word
John Herbert
1926
2001
playwright
Fortune and Men's Eyes
Sarah Herbert
1824
1846
publisher, writer, poet
The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems
Catherine Hernandez
playwright, novelist
Scarborough
Nicholas Herring
novelist
Some Hellish
Trevor Herriot
naturalist
River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage , Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Benjamin Hertwig
poet
Slow War
Sheila Heti
1976
novelist, short stories
How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor
Paul Hiebert
1892
1987
novelist, humorist
Sarah Binks
Tomson Highway
1951
playwright, novelist
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing , The Rez Sisters , Kiss of the Fur Queen
Lawrence Hill
1957
novelist, memoirist
Black Berry, Sweet Juice , The Book of Negroes
Ernest Hillen
journalist, memoirist
The Way of a Boy , Small Mercies
Robert Hilles
1951
poet and novelist
Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild
Jack Hodgins
1938
Robert Hogg
1942
poet, critic
The Connexions
Nadia L. Hohn
children's literature
Malaika's Costume
Susan Holbrook
poet
Misled , Joy Is So Exhausting , Throaty Wipes
Arthur Holden
1959
playwright, television
Father Land , Ars Poetica , The Book of Bob
Clive Holden
poet
Trains of Winnipeg
Claire Holden Rothman
1958
novelist, short stories
The Heart Specialist , My October
Pauline Holdstock
Norah M. Holland
1876
1925
poet, playwright, journalist, editor
Spun-yarn and Spindrift , When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems
Greg Hollingshead
1947
novelist, short stories
The Roaring Girl , The Healer
Margaret Hollingsworth
1942
playwright
Ever Loving , War Babies , Islands
Michael Hollingsworth
1950
playwright
The History of the Village of the Small Huts
Nancy Holmes
1959
poet
The Adultery Poems , The Flicker Tree
Margaret Lindsay Holton (a.k.a. Ali-Janna Whyte)
1955
novelist, short stories, poet, social history
Economic Sex , Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984 , The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous , On Top of Mount Nemo , Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs
David Homel
1952
novelist, translator
Electrical Storms , The Speaking Cure , The Teardown
Hugh Hood
1928
2000
novelist
The New Age
Cornelia Hoogland
1952
Hilda Mary Hooke
1898
1978
poet, dramatist
Emma Hooper
1980
novelist
Etta and Otto and Russell and James , Our Homesick Songs
Nalo Hopkinson
1960
science fiction, fantasy
Midnight Robber , The Salt Roads
Leah Horlick
poet
Riot Lung , For Your Own Good
Harold Horwood
1923
2006
Karen Houle
poet
The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology
Liz Howard
poet
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
Stevie Howell
poet
Sharps , I left nothing inside on purpose
Nazanine Hozar
1978
novelist
Aria
David Huebert
short stories, poetry
Peninsula Sinking , Chemical Valley
Annie Campbell Huestis
1878
1960
short stories, poetry
Flannigan , The Will-'o-the-Wisp
Tanya Huff
1957
fantasy
Matt Hughes
1949
Helen Humphreys
1961
novelist
Afterimage , The Lost Garden , The Evening Chorus
Aislinn Hunter
Bruce Hunter
1952
poet, novelist, non-fiction
Coming Home from Home , Country Music Country , The Beekeeper's Daughter , Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected , In The Bear's House
Catherine Hunter
1957
Maureen Hunter
1948
Mervyn Huston
1912
2001
humorist
Gophers Don't Pay Taxes
Nancy Huston
1953
novelist, translator
Linda Hutcheon
1947
critic, academic
The Politics of Postmodernism , The Canadian Postmodern , A Theory of Adaptation .
Hazel Hutchins
Chris Hutchinson
1972
poet, novelist, academic
Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames
Bruce Hutchison
1901
1992
Céline Huyghebaert
novelist
Le drap blanc
Joel Thomas Hynes
1976
novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Down to the Dirt , Right Away Monday
Maureen Hynes
poet
Rough Skin , Harm's Way , Marrow, Willow
I
J
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works Dragons of Nesbit
Donald Jack
1924
2003
novelist, playwright
The Bandy Papers , Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses
Suzanne Jacob
1953
novelist, poet
Laura Laur , La Part de feu
Heidi L. M. Jacobs
novelist
Molly of the Mall
Michael Jacot
1924
2006
novelist, screenwriter
The Last Act of Martin Weston , The Last Butterfly
Simone St. James
novelist
The Book of Cold Cases , The Sun Down Motel , The Broken Girls
Anna Brownell Jameson
1794
1860
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
J. Robert Janes
1932
mysteries
Mark Anthony Jarman
1955
novelist, short stories
19 Knives , My White Planet
Melynda Jarratt
1961
non-fiction, historian literature
Voices of the Left Behind , War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved , Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides , Letters From Beauly
Claude Jasmin
1930
2021
novelist, screenwriter, short stories
Éthel et le terroriste , La Sablière , Délivrez-nous du mal
Michel Jean
novelist, journalist
Kukum , Atuk
François Jeanneret
1890
1967
historian
E. A. Jenns
1860
1930
poet
Evening to Morning, and Other Poems
Paulette Jiles
1943
novelist, poet
Celestial Navigation , Enemy Women
Gilles Jobidon
1950
novelist
La Route des petits matins , Le Tranquille affligé
Marthe Jocelyn
1956
children's/young adult literature
Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series
K. V. Johansen
1968
fantasy, science fiction
Nightwalker , Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus
Jessica Johns
novelist, short stories
Bad Cree
Linda Johns
1945
non-fiction
Sharing a Robin's Life
E. Pauline Johnson
1861
1913
poet
Canadian Born
Wentworth M. Johnson
1939
2014
science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction
Angel of the Veil , The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series
Aviaq Johnston
1992/1993
children's/young adult literature
Those Who Run in the Sky
Julie Johnston
children's/young adult literature
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Wayne Johnston
1958
novelist, non-fiction
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams , Baltimore's Mansion
Sean Johnston
1966
novelist, short stories, poet
A Day Does Not Go By
Andy Jones
1948
playwright, screenwriter
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Alice Jones
1853
1933
novelist, essayist
Gabriel Praed's Castle
D. G. Jones
1929
2016
poet, translator
Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth
Scott Jones
playwright, screenwriter
Coin Slot , Freedom , I Forgive You
Terry Jordan
short stories
It's a Hard Cow
Eve Joseph
1953
poet
The Startled Heart , Quarrels
K
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Michael Kaan
fiction
The Water Beetles
Elaine Kalman Naves
1947
non-fiction
Putting Down Roots , Shoshonna's Story
Surjeet Kalsey
poet, drama, short stories, translator
FootPrints of Silence , Speaking to the Wind , Colours of My Heart
Smaro Kamboureli
Alan Kane
1954
Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
Donna Kane
poet
Orrery
Adeena Karasick
1965
poet
This Poem
Ibi Kaslik
1973
novelist
Skinny , The Angel Riots
Welwyn Wilton Katz
1948
Aristote Kavungu
1962
fiction, poetry
Un train pour l'est , Mon père, Boudarel et moi
Guy Gavriel Kay
1954
fantasy
The Fionavar Tapestry , Tigana , A Song for Arbonne , The Lions of Al-Rassan
Greg Kearney
short stories, drama
Mommy Daddy Baby , Pretty , Cancun
Lionel Kearns
1937
fiction, essays, digital-word-art
Birth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences
Diane Keating
poet
No Birds or Flowers
Julie Keith
short stories
The Jaguar Temple , The Devil Out There
Thomas P. Kelley
1910
1982
pulp, true crime
The Black Donnellys
Kaie Kellough
1975
poet, novelist, short stories
Magnetic Equator , Dominoes at the Crossroads
Cathal Kelly
sportswriter, memoirist
Boy Wonders
M. T. Kelly
1946
novelist
A Dream Like Mine
Sean Kelly
1940
humor
Saints preserve us! , Not the Bible , Boom Baby Moon
Olivier Kemeid
1975
playwright
L'Éneide , Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle , Furieux et désespérés
Oonya Kempadoo
novelist
Naniki
Howard Angus Kennedy
1861
1938
Historian, journalist
The Northwest Rebellion
Michael Kenyon
novelist, short stories, poet
The Beautiful Children , Kleinberg
Conor Kerr
1988
novelist, poet
Avenue of Champions , An Explosion of Feathers
Susan Kerslake
1943
novelist, short stories
Middlewatch , The Book of Fears
Joseph Kertes
1951
novelist, journalist
Winter Tulips , Gratitude
Craig Kielburger
1982
Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur
Free the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From A Street Kid
Marc Kielburger
1977
Canadian human rights activist, author, social entrepreneur
Me To We: Finding Meaning In A Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter
William Kilbourn
1926
1995
historian
The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion
Crawford Kilian
1941
The Last Vikings
Crad Kilodney
1948
2014
short stories
Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda
Deborah Kimmett
playwright, humorist
Miracle Mother , Outrunning Crazy
Basil King
1859
1928
novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association
The Inner Shrine (1909)
Thomas King
1943
novelist, non-fiction
Green Grass, Running Water
Wesley King
1987
novelist, fiction
OCDaniel , The Wizenard Series
Mark Kingwell
1963
philosopher
Dreams of Millennium
W.P. Kinsella
1935
2016
novelist, short stories
Shoeless Joe , Dance Me Outside
William Kirby
1817
1906
novelist, poet
The Golden Dog
Barbara Klar
1966
poet
The Night You Called Me a Shadow
Sarah Klassen
1932
novelist, poet
Journey to Yalta , A Curious Beatitude , The Wittenbergs
A. M. Klein
1909
1972
novelist, poet
The Second Scroll
Joshua Knelman
creative non-fiction
Hot Art
Chelene Knight
poet, creative non-fiction
Dear Current Occupant
Raymond Knister
1899
1932
Grapes (2006)
Alexander Knox
1907
1995
actor, novelist
Night Of The White Bear
Tamai Kobayashi
1965
short stories, novelist
Prairie Ostrich
Eric Koch
1919
2018
novelist
Premonitions: A novel
Joy Kogawa
1935
poet, novelist
Obasan , Itsuka
Miodrag Kojadinović
1961
short story writer, poet
Érotiques Suprèmes , Under Thunderous Skies
Sergio Kokis
1944
novelist, poet, short stories
Le Pavillon des miroirs , Les amants d'Alfama , Culs-de-sac
Pamela Korgemagi
novelist
The Hunter and the Old Woman
Gordon Korman
1963
children's, young adult literature
This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall
Myrna Kostash
1944
Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe
Shane Koyczan
1976
Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media)
Greg Kramer
1961
2013
novelist, playwright
The Pursemonger of fugu , Couchwarmer , Wally
Philip Kreiner
1950
novelist, short stories
People Like Us in a Place Like This
Henry Kreisel
1922
1991
novelist
The Rich Man
Aaron Kreuter
poet, short stories
You and Me, Belonging , Shifting Baseline Syndrome
John Krizanc
1956
playwright
Tamara
Robert Kroetsch
1927
2011
novelist, poet
The Studhorse Man , The Hornbooks of Rita K
Daniel Krolik
1977
playwright
Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
1965
novelist, short stories
Way Up , The Nettle Spinner , All the Broken Things
Janice Kulyk Keefer
1952
novelist, poet
Constellations , The Green Library
J. D. Kurtness
fiction
De vengeance
Michael Kusugak
1948
children's literature
The Littlest Sled Dog
Lydia Kwa
1959
fiction, poet
This Place Called Absence , The Walking Boy
L
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Sonnet L'Abbé
poet
A Strange Relief , Killarnoe
Carole Labarre
1966
novelist
L'Or des mélèzes
Richard Labonté
1949
critic, anthologist
First Person Queer , Best Gay Erotica series
Rosa Labordé
playwright
Léo
Marie-Sissi Labrèche
1969
screenwriter, novelist
Borderline
Marie-Ève Lacasse
1982
novelist
Autobiographie de l'étranger
Edward A. Lacey
1988
1995
poet
The Forms of Life
Ben Ladouceur
1987
poet
Otter
Chloé LaDuchesse
poet
Exosquelette
Steven Laffoley
1965
non-fiction, novelist
Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo
Marie-Pier Lafontaine
novelist
Chienne
Larissa Lai
1967
novelist
When Fox Is a Thousand
Angélique Lalonde
short stories
Glorious Frazzled Beings
Kama La Mackerel
poet
ZOM-FAM
Vincent Lam
1974
medicine, novelist
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures , The Headmaster's Wager
Tsering Yangzom Lama
novelist
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Guillaume Lambert
1984
novelist, screenwriter
Satyriasis : mes années romantiques , Eschatologie , Niagara
Kevin Lambert
1992
novelist
Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué , Querelle de Roberval
Gerald Lampert
1920s
1978
novelist, poet
Tangle Me No More , Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus
Tim Lander
1938
poet
Street Heart Poems
Patrick Lane
1939
2019
poet
Poems, New and Selected
André Langevin
1927
2009
novelist, playwright, journalist
Évadé de la nuit , Poussière sur la ville , Une Chaîne dans le parc
Marisa Lankester
1963
writer
Dangerous Odds
Shari Lapena
1960
novelist
Happiness Economics , The Couple Next Door
Annette Lapointe
1978
novelist
Stolen
Gilbert La Rocque
1943
1984
novelist, biographer
Les masques
Hubert LaRue
1833
1881
writer, physician, scientist
Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean
Stéphane Larue
1983
novelist
Le Plongeur
Evelyn Lau
1971
poet, novelist, memoirist
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
Margaret Laurence
1926
1987
novelist
The Stone Angel , The Diviners
Agnes C. Laut
1871
1936
journalist, novelist, historian, social worker
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast , The Quenchless Night , The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier
Marie-Renée Lavoie
1974
novelist
La petite et le vieux , Autopsie d'une femme plate
Karen Lawrence
1951
novelist, poet, short stories
The Life of Helen Alone
R.D. Lawrence
1921
2003
naturalist, nature writer
Cry Wild
Mary Lawson
1946
novelist
Crow Lake
Irving Layton
1912
2006
poet
A Wild Peculiar Joy
Jack Layton
1950
2011
non-fiction
Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
Stephen Leacock
1869
1944
humorist
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Georgette LeBlanc
1977
poet, translator
Alma , Prudent
Gérald Leblanc
1945
2005
poet
Complaintes du continent , Moncton Mantra
Perrine Leblanc
1980
novelist
L'homme blanc , Malabourg
D. M. LeBourdais
1887
1964
journalist, historian
Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation , Canada and the Atomic Revolution
Isabel LeBourdais
1909
2003
journalist
The Trial of Steven Truscott
Félix Leclerc
1914
1988
writer, poet, singer-songwriter
Pieds nus dans l'aube , Le calepin d'un flâneur , Moi, mes souliers
Dennis Lee
1939
poet
Garbage Delight , Alligator Pie , Civil Elegies
John Alan Lee
1933
2013
sociologist
The Colours of Love , Getting Sex
JJ Lee
non-fiction
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Jen Sookfong Lee
novelist
The End of East
John B. Lee
1951
poet
The Pig Dance Dreams , Variations on Herb
Nancy Lee
1970
short stories
Dead Girls
Ronald Lee
1934
2020
novelist
Goddam Gypsy
Sky Lee
1952
short stories, novelist
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Mathyas Lefebure
novelist
D'où viens tu, berger?
Lily Alice Lefevre
1854
1938
poet
The Lions' Gate and Other Verses , A Garden By The Sea
Mark Leiren-Young
1962
playwright, novelist
Shylock (play) , The Killer Whale Who Changed the World , Never Shoot A Stampede Queen
Roger Lemelin
1919
1992
novelist, essayist
The Town Below
Matt Lennox
1980
novelist, short stories
Men of Salt, Men of Earth , Knucklehead
John Lent
1948
2006
poet, novelist
So it Won't Go Away
Don LePan
1954
novelist
Animals: A Novel
Douglas LePan
1914
1998
poet, novelist
The Deserter , "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology"
Catherine Leroux
1979
novelist, short stories
Le mur mitoyen , Madame Victoria
Pierre Leroux
1958
novelist
Le Rire des femmes, , Cher éditeur
Alex Leslie
poet, short stories
People Who Disappear , The Things I Heard About You
Mark Leslie
1969
novelist, non-fiction, short stories
Haunted Hamilton , One Hand Screaming , Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound , A Canadian Werewolf in New York
Sophie Létourneau
1980
novelist
Chasse à l'homme
Carrianne Leung
novelist, short stories
The Wondrous Woo , That Time I Loved You
J. R. (Roger) Léveillé
1945
novelist, poet, non-fiction
The Setting Lake Sun
Yves Lever
1942
2020
film critic, historian, biographer
Claude Jutra , Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec
Lilian Leveridge
1879
1953
poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles
"Over the Hills of Home"
Norman Levine
1923
2005
short stories
One Way Ticket , Thin Ice
Shar Levine
1953
children's science
Extreme 3-D Weird Animals , Fun with Your Microscope
Naomi K. Lewis
1976
novelist, non-fiction
Cricket in a Fist , I Know Who You Remind Me Of , Tiny Lights for Travellers
Wyndham Lewis
1882
1957
novelist
The Apes of God
Katherine Leyton
poet
All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
T. Liem
poet
Obits
Hillar Liitoja
playwright
The Last Supper , Sick , This Is What Happens in Orangeville
Thea Lim
1981
novelist
An Ocean of Minutes
Michael Lista
1983
poet
Bloom
Ashley Little
1983
children's, young adult literature
The New Normal , Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Jean Little
1932
2020
novelist
Mine for Keeps
Dorothy Livesay
1909
1996
poet
Day and Night , Poems for People
Billie Livingston
1965
novelist, short stories, poet
Going Down Swinging , Cease to Blush , Greedy Little Eyes
Douglas Lochhead
1922
2011
poet
High Marsh Road , Shepherds Before Kings , The Millwood Road Poems
Lynette Loeppky
memoirist
Cease
John Lorinc
journalist
Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
Kevin Loring
1974
playwright
Where the Blood Mixes
Jennifer LoveGrove
poet, novelist
Watch How We Walk
Malcolm Lowry
1909
1957
novelist
Under the Volcano
Pat Lowther
1935
1975
poet
Milk Stone , A Stone Diary
Canisia Lubrin
poet, novelist
The Dyzgraphxst , Code Noir
Jack Ludwig
1922
2018
novelist, short stories, sportswriter
Above Ground , The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration
Sidura Ludwig
novelist, short stories
Holding My Breath , You Are Not What We Expected
Pearl Luke
1958
novelist
Burning Ground , Madame Zee
Janet Lunn
1928
2017
children's literature
The Root Cellar , The Hollow Tree
Laura Lush
1959
poet, short story writer
Hometown , Going to the Zoo
Richard Lush
1934
poet
A Manual for Lying Down
Michael Lynch
1944
1991
poet, journalist, academic
These Waves of Dying Friends
Annabel Lyon
1971
novels, short stories
The Golden Mean
Eswyn Lyster
1923
2009
war brides, war
Most Excellent Citizens , A Bloody Miracle
M
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Rozena Maart
1962
novelist, short stories
Rosa's District Six , The Writing Circle
Patrick MacAdam
1934
2015
Gold Medal Misfits
Annick MacAskill
poet
Shadow Blight
Ann-Marie MacDonald
1958
novelist, playwright
Fall on Your Knees , Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Bryden MacDonald
1960
playwright
Whale Riding Weather , With Bated Breath
D. R. MacDonald
1939
novelist, short stories
Cape Breton Road , Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
1864
1922
poet, children's literature, short stories, essays
Hugh MacDonald
1945
This is a Love Song
Jake MacDonald
1949
2020
The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country
Janice MacDonald
1959
novelist, children's literature, short stories
Condemned to Repeat , Hang Down Your Head , The Ghouls' Night Out
Maggie MacDonald
1979
Wilson MacDonald
1880
1967
poet
Song of the Prairie Land
Lee MacDougall
playwright
High Life
Gwendolyn MacEwen
1941
1987
poet, novelist
Julian the Magician , King of Egypt, King of Dreams
Mary Esther MacGregor
1872
1961
novelist, non-fiction
A Gentleman Adventurer , Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley.
Roy MacGregor
1948
journalist, non-fiction
Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey
Agnes Maule Machar
1837
1927
Linden MacIntyre
1943
novelist, journalist
The Bishop's Man , Causeway
Matthew MacKenzie
playwright
Bears , The First Métis Man of Odesa
Rory Maclean
1954
Hugh MacLennan
1907
1990
novelist, essayist
Two Solitudes , Barometer Rising
Matt MacLennan
Michael MacLennan
1968
Alexander MacLeod
1972
short stories
Light Lifting
Alison MacLeod
fiction
Unexploded , All the Beloved Ghosts
Alistair MacLeod
1936
2014
novelist, short stories
No Great Mischief
Elizabeth Macleod
biographer
Joan MacLeod
1954
playwright
Amigo's Blue Guitar , The Hope Slide , The Shape of a Girl
Rick Maddocks
1970
short stories
Sputnik Diner
Adriana Maggs
screenwriter
Grown Up Movie Star
Randall Maggs
poet
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Michèle Magny
1944
playwright
Marina, le dernier rose aux joues , Un carré de ciel
Anand Mahadevan
1979
novelist
The Strike
Rabindranath Maharaj
1955
novelist, short stories
The Interloper , Homer in Flight , The Lagahoo's Apprentice
Louise Maheux-Forcier
1929
2015
novelist, radio and television drama
Amadou , Une Forêt pour Zoé
Keith Maillard
1942
novelist, poet
Twin Studies, Difficulty at the Beginning quartet, The Clarinet Polka, Gloria , Dementia Americana, Hazard Zones, Light in the Company of Women, Motet, Two Strand River
Antonine Maillet
1929
novelist, playwright
La Sagouine , Pélagie-la-Charrette
André Major
1942
poet, novelist
Les Rescapés
Kevin Major
1949
Pasha Malla
short stories, journalism
The Withdrawal Method
Donato Mancini
poet
Ligature , Æthel , Same Diff
Eli Mandel
1922
1992
poet
Trio , An Idiot Joy , The Family Romance
Miriam Mandel
1930
1982
poet
Lions at Her Face , Station 14
Avner Mandelman
novelist, finance
The Debba
David Manicom
1960
poet, novelist
Lee Maracle
1950
2021
poet, novelist
Blaine Marchand
1949
poet, non-fiction, novelist
A Garden Enclosed , The Craving of Knives
Jovette Marchessault
1938
2012
novelist, playwright
Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr , Triptyque lesbien
Hubert Marcoux
1941
2009
non-fiction, adventure travel
Around the World in 18 Years
Michèle Marineau
1955
novelist, translator
La Route de Chlifa
Robert Marinier
1954
playwright, television
L'Insomnie , Météo+ , Les Bleus de Ramville
Daphne Marlatt
1942
Paul Marlowe
novelist, short stories
Sporeville
John Marlyn
1912
1985
Nicole Markotic
1962
Tom Marshall
1938
1993
poet, novelist, critic
Adele at the End of the Day
Yolanda T. Marshall
1978
children's literature
My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans
Émile Martel
1941
poet, short stories
Pour orchestre et poète seul
Yann Martel
1963
novelist, short stories
Life of Pi , The High Mountains of Portugal
Camille Martin
1956
poet, collage artist
Sonnets , Looms
Claire Martin
1914
2014
La joue droite
Paul Nicholas Mason
1958
novelist, playwright
Battered Soles , The Red Dress , The Night Drummer , A Pug Called Poppy , The Rogue Wave
Vincent Massey
1887
1967
historian
On being Canadian , Speaking of Canada , Confederation on the march
Elan Mastai
screenwriter, novelist
The F Word , All Our Wrong Todays
Carol Matas
1949
novelist
After the War , Daniel's Story
Shirlee Smith Matheson
1943
Suzette Mayr
1967
novelist
Monoceros , The Sleeping Car Porter
John Bentley Mays
1941
2016
journalist, novelist, memoirist
In the Jaws of the Black Dogs , Power in the Blood
Susan Mayse
1948
creative non-fiction
Awen , Ginger , Merlin's Web
Julie Mazzieri
1975
novelist
Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot , La Bosco
Melchior Mbonimpa
1955
novelist, non-fiction
Les morts ne sont pas morts , Diangombé l'Immortel
Tawiah M'carthy
playwright
Obaaberima
Colin McAdam
novelist
Some Great Thing , A Beautiful Truth
Steve McCaffery
1947
Julia McCarthy
poet
Return from Erebus , All the Names Between
Nellie McClung
1873
1951
journalist
Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac)
poet, academic
Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth , The Hundefraulein Papers
Derek McCormack
1969
novelist, short stories
Dark Rides , The Haunted Hillbilly
Eric McCormack
1938
novelist
The Paradise Motel , First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Edward McCourt
1907
1972
novelist, non-fiction
Music at the Close
John McCrae
1872
1918
poet
"In Flanders' Fields "
Kathleen McCracken
1960
poet
Blue Light, Bay and College
Derek McCulloch
1964
graphic novelist, children's literature
Stagger Lee
Thomas McCulloch
1776
1843
humourist
The Stepsure Letters
Colin McDougall
1917
1984
novelist
Execution
Franklin D. McDowell
1888
1965
novelist
The Champlain Road
Jaimie McEvoy
1965
historian
David McFadden
1940
2018
poet, novelist, short stories
The Art of Darkness , What's the Score?
Donna McFarlane
1958
novelist
Division of Surgery
Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon )
1902
1977
children's literature
The Hardy Boys
Sheryl McFarlane
1954
children's literature, young adult fiction
Waiting for the Whales , Jessie's Island , Eagle Dreams , This is the Dog
Oonah McFee
1916
2006
novels, short stories
Sandbars
Peter McGehee
1955
1991
novels, short stories
Boys Like Us , Sweetheart
Robin McGrath
1949
novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction
Escaped Domestics , Donovan's Station , Covenant of Salt
Jean McIlwraith
1858
1938
novelist, biographer
Edgar McInnis
1899
1973
poet, historian
The Unguarded Frontier , Oxford Periodical History of the War
James McIntyre
1827
1906
poet
Ami McKay
1968
The Birth House
Don McKay
1942
poet, essayist
Leo McKay, Jr.
1964
novelist, short stories
Twenty-Six , Like This
Bruce Alistair McKelvie
1889
1960
journalist, historian
Magic, Murder and Mystery
Ian McLachlan
novelist, playwright
The Seventh Hexagram
Stuart McLean
1948
2017
humorist, short stories
Welcome Home , Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Marshall McLuhan
1911
1980
academic
Susan McMaster
1950
Amber McMillan
writer
We Can't Ever Do This Again, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island, The Running Trees, This Is a Stickup
Sylvia McNicoll
1954
Florence McNeil
1932
2013
poet, playwright
Overlanders , Barkerville , Emily , Miss P. and Me
Marie McPhedran
1904
1974
novelist
Cargoes on the Great Lakes
Christopher Meades
1974
novelist, short stories
The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark , The Last Hiccup , For The Love of Mary
John Melady
Lee Mellor
1982
true crime, music critic
Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
Judith Merril
1923
1997
science fiction, editor
Edmund Metatawabin
1948
memoirist
Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
John Metcalf
1938
Stéfani Meunier
1971
novelist, short stories
Une carte postale de l'océan
Sarah Mian
poet, novelist, short stories
When the Saints
Shayne Michael
poet
Fif et sauvage
Anne Michaels
1958
poet, novelist
Fugitive Pieces
Sean Michaels
1982
novelist, music critic
Us Conductors
Andrée A. Michaud
1957
novelist, playwright
Le ravissement , Mirror Lake , Bondrée
Marianne Micros
1943
short stories, poet
Eye
Jesse Edgar Middleton
1872
1960
journalist, historian, songwriter
Huron Carol , Toronto's 100 Years
Stevie Mikayne
mystery novelist, children's literature
UnCatholic Conduct , Illicit Artifacts
Roy Miki
1942
Ron Miksha
1954
Bad Beekeeping
Eleanor Millard
1942
novelist, memoirist, short stories
River Child , Journeys Outside and In , Summer Snow
John Miller
1968
novelist
The Featherbed , A Sharp Intake of Breath
Orlo Miller
1911
1993
historian, novelist
Kenneth G. Mills
1923
2004
poet
Christine Miscione
novelist, short stories
Auxiliary Skins , Carafola
Christian Mistral
1964
novelist, poet, songwriter
Vamp
Rohinton Mistry
1952
novelist
Such a Long Journey , A Fine Balance
Jared Mitchell
1955
John Wendell Mitchell
1882
1951
novelist
The Yellow Briar
W. O. Mitchell
1914
1998
novelist, short stories
Who Has Seen the Wind , Jake and the Kid
Rick Mofina
1959
mystery, thriller
Blood of Others
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1874
1942
novelist, children's literature
Anne of Green Gables
Susanna Moodie
1803
1885
memoirist
Roughing it in the Bush
Brian Moore
1921
1999
Black Robe , The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Christopher G. Moore
1952
novelist, short stories
Vincent Calvino Private Eye series
Lisa Moore
1964
short stories, novelist
Jeffrey Moore
novelist
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain , The Memory Artists ,The Extinction Club
Shani Mootoo
1958
novelist
Cereus Blooms at Night
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
poet
Pierre Morency
1942
poet, playwright
Bernice Morgan
1935
Dwayne Morgan
1974
Grace Jones Morgan
1884
1977
pulp
Jeffrey Morgan
rock critic, biographer, graphic novelist, poet
The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper , The Stooges : The Authorized and Illustrated Story , The Brides of Mister X
Tara Lee Morin
poet, memoirist
As I Remember It
Guillaume Morissette
1983
novelist
Kim Moritsugu
novels
Looks Perfect , The Glenwood Treasure
Donna Morrissey
1956
Kim Morrissey
Garry Thomas Morse
poet, novelist
Discovery Passages , Prairie Harbour
Colin Morton
1948
Marie Moser
1948
novelist, short stories
Counterpoint
Daniel David Moses
1952
2020
poet and playwright
Tara Moss
1973
novelist
Fetish , Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess
Erín Moure
1955
poet
Farley Mowat
1921
2014
novelist, naturalist
Never Cry Wolf , My Discovery of America
Claire Mulligan
novelist, short stories
The Reckoning of Boston Jim
Alice Munro
1931
2024
short stories
The Progress of Love , Lives of Girls and Women , The Love of a Good Woman
Jim Munroe
1945
science fiction
Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask , Everyone in Silico
Robert Munsch
1945
children's literature
Angela's Airplane , A Promise is a Promise , Love You Forever , The Paperbag Princess
Janet Munsil
playwright
Be Still , That Elusive Spark
Sachiko Murakami
1980
poet
The Invisibility Exhibit , Rebuild , Get Me Out of Here , Render
George Murray
1971
poet
The Hunter , The Rush to Here , Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms
Morgan Murray
novelist
Dirty Birds
Sheila Murray
novelist, short stories
Finding Edward
John Murrell
1945
2019
playwright
Susan Musgrave
1951
poet, novelist
The Charcoal Burners , Cargo of Orchids
Maria Mutch
memoirist, short stories
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Téa Mutonji
short stories
Shut Up You're Pretty
N
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Ira Nadel
1943
biography, literary criticism
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen , Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller , Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text , David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre , Tom Stoppard: A Life
Noor Naga
novelist
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Hasan Namir
1987
novelist
God in Pink
Shenaaz Nanji
1954
young adult literature
Child of Dandelions
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
1931
2007
novelist
Sanaaq
Akhtar Naraghi
novelist, poet
The Big Green House
André Narbonne
novelist, poet, short stories
Twelve Miles to Midnight , Lucien & Olivia
Angela Narth
1946
children's literature, non-fiction
Simon With Two Left Feet
Jim Nason
novelist, poet, short stories
The Housekeeping Journals , Rooster, Dog, Crow
Riel Nason
young adult novelist
The Town That Drowned
Dimitri Nasrallah
1977
novelist
Blackbodying , Hotline
Michael Nathanson
playwright
Talk
Blaise Ndala
novelist
J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor , Sans capote ni kalachnikov
Jen Neale
novelist
Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
Émile Nelligan
1879
1941
poet
Émile Nelligan et son œuvre
Max Nemni
political scientist, biographer
Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed
Monique Nemni
1936
linguist, biographer
Young Trudeau , Trudeau Transformed
Pierre Nepveu
1946
poet, novelist
Romans-fleuves , Lignes aériennes , Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
Sylvain Neuvel
1973
science fiction
Sleeping Giants
John Newlove
1938
2003
poet
Lies , The Night the Dog Smiled
Peter C. Newman
1929
journalist
The Canadian Establishment
B. P. Nichol
1944
1988
poet
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer , The Martyrology
Cecily Nicholson
poet
From the Poplars , Wayside Sang
Hal Niedzviecki
1971
novelist, critic
Ditch , We Want Some Too
Susin Nielsen
children's and young adult literature
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Frederick Niven
1878
1944
novelist
The Flying Years
Fraser Nixon
crime novelist
The Man Who Killed , Straight to the Head
Francine Noël
1945
novelist, playwright
La Femme de ma vie
Henri Nouwen
1932
1996
theologian
The Wounded Healer , The Inner Voice of Love
Mary Novik
1945
novelist
Conceit
Alden Nowlan
1933
1983
poet
Bread, Wine and Salt , I’m a Stranger Here Myself
O
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Keith Oatley
1939
novelist, psychology, scholar
The Case of Emily V , Understanding Emotions , Towards a cognitive theory of emotions
Sheldon Oberman
1949
2004
children's literature
The Shaman's Nephew
Theodore Odrach
1912
1964
novelist
Wave of Terror , The Village Teacher and Other Stories
Rohan O'Grady
1922
2014
novelist
Let's Kill Uncle , Pippin's Journal
Howard O'Hagan
1902
1982
novelist, short stories
Tay John
Alix Ohlin
novelist, short stories
Inside , Signs and Wonders
Alexandra Oliver
1970
poet
Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Tolu Oloruntoba
poet
The Junta of Happenstance
Bryan Lee O'Malley
1979
graphic novelist
Scott Pilgrim
Heather O'Neill
1973
novelist
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Michael Ondaatje
1943
novelist, poet
The English Patient , In the Skin of a Lion , Anil's Ghost
Christopher Ondaatje
1933
writer, publisher
The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867–1967 , The Man-eater of Punanai — a Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon , Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
novelist
The Son of the House
Kenneth Oppel
1967
children's literature
Airborn Series , Silverwing saga
Stephen Osborne
1947
journalist
Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World
Gabriel Osson
novelist, poet, memoirist
Le jour se lèvera
Martha Ostenso
1900
1963
novelist, screenwriter
Wild Geese
Lawrence O'Toole
film critic, memoirist
Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home
Fernand Ouellette
1930
poet, novelist
Lucie ou un midi en novembre , Les Heures
Susan Ouriou
1955
novelist, short stories, translator
Damselfish
James Macdonald Oxley
1855
1907
novelist (juvenile)
P
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Frank L. Packard
1877
1942
Novelist
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Susan Paddon
poet
Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
P. K. Page
1916
2010
poet
Basil Papademos
1957
erotica
Mount Royal
Aaron Paquette
1974
young adult literature, fantasy
Lightfinder
Jivesh Parasram
playwright
Take d Milk, Nah?
Arleen Paré
1946
poet, novelist
Paper Trails , Leaving Now , Lake of Two Mountains
Erna Paris
literary non-fiction
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
Fawn Parker
novelist, poet, short stories
What We Both Know
Gilbert Parker
1862
1932
novelist
The Seats of the Mighty , The Lane that Had No Turning
Amy Parkinson
1855
1938
poet
Love Through All , Best
Jocelyn Parr
fiction
Uncertain Weights and Measures
Amanda Parris
playwright
Other Side of the Game
Markoosie Patsauq
1942
2020
fiction
Harpoon of the Hunter
Kevin Patterson
1964
novelist, memoirist
Country of Cold , Consumption , The Water in Between
Raymond M. Patterson
1898
1984
Philip Kevin Paul
poet
Taking the Names Down from the Hill , Little Hunger
Loghan Paylor
novelist, short stories
The Cure for Drowning
Joan Payzant
1925
2013
columnist, historical, childrens' fiction
Who's a Scaredy-Cat!: A Story of the Halifax Explosion
Kit Pearson
1947
children's literature, young adult literature
Awake and Dreaming , The Sky is Falling , A Handful of Time
Soraya Peerbaye
poet, dramatist
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names , Tell
Francine Pelletier
1959
science fiction, young adult literature
Fred Pellerin
1976
short stories
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
1971
children's, memoirist, academic
Are You a Boy or a Girl? , How to Get a Girl Pregnant
Louise Penny
1958
mysteries
Still Life , A Fatal Grace , The Cruelest Month
H. R. Percy
1920
1997
novelist, short stories
Painted Ladies
Susan Perly
novelist, short stories
Love Street , Death Valley
Amanda Peters
novelist, short stories
The Berry Pickers , Waiting for the Long Night Moon
Bradley Peters
poet
Sonnets from a Cell
Jordan Peterson
1962
applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar
Maps of Meaning , 12 Rules for Life , Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five
Len Peterson
1917
2008
Zoey Leigh Peterson
novelist
Next Year, for Sure
Geneviève Pettersen
1982
novelist, blogger
La déesse des mouches à feu
Josephine Phelan
1905
1979
History, biography
The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee
Edward O. Phillips
1931
2020
novelist
Sunday's Child , Buried on Sunday
Wendy Phillips
children's literature
Fishtailing
Lorne Pierce
1890
1961
literary critic
Joseph Jomo Pierre
playwright
Shakespeare's Nigga
Emmanuelle Pierrot
1994
novelist
La version qui n'intéresse personne
Leslie Hall Pinder
1948
2021
fiction
On Double Tracks
Sarah Pinder
poet
Cutting Room , Common Place
William Ping
fiction
Hollow Bamboo
Joseph Pivato
1946
literary critic, editor
Echo: Essays on Other Literature , Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing .
Michel Pleau
1964
poet
La lenteur du monde , La traversée de la nuit
Casey Plett
1987
short stories, novelist
A Safe Girl to Love , Little Fish , A Dream of A Woman
Jacques Poitras
journalist, non-fiction
Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy , Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future
Craig Poile
poet
First Crack , True Concessions
Daniel Poliquin
1953
Sharon Pollock
1936
2021
Michael Poole
1936
2010
non-fiction
Romancing Mary Jane
Helen Fogwill Porter
1930
non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright
Below the Bridge, Finishing School
Michelle Porter
novelist, poet, non-fiction
Inquiries , A Grandmother Begins the Story
Liza Potvin
1958
non-fiction
White Lies (for my mother)
Gabrielle Poulin
1929
2015
novelist, poet
La Couronne d'oubli , Le Livre de déraison
Jacques Poulin
1937
novelist
Volkswagen Blues
Christine Pountney
1971
novelist
Last Chance Texaco
Joël Pourbaix
1958
poet
Le mal du pays est un art oublié
Steve Poutré
1979
novelist
Lait cru
B.W. Powe
1955
philosopher
A Canada of Light
Kerry Lee Powell
poet, short stories
The Inheritance , Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
Craig Francis Power
novelist
Blood Relatives , The Hope , Skeet Love
Paul David Power
playwright
Crippled
E. J. Pratt
1883
1964
poet
Steven Price
poet, novelist
Anatomy of Keys , Into That Darkness
Robert Priest
1951
poet
Alex Pugsley
1963
novels, short stories, screenwriter
Dirty Singles , Aubrey McKee
Kate Pullinger
1961
novels, experimental/online fiction
The Mistress of Nothing
Al Purdy
1918
2000
poet
Andrew Pyper
1968
novelist
Lost Girls , The Trade Mission
Q
Name
Born
Died
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
1948
novelist
Bone Bird
Andy Quan
1969
novelist
Calendar Boy , Slant , Six Positions
Paul Quarrington
1953
2010
novelist, screenwriter
Whale Music , King Leary
Meredith Quartermain
1950
poet, fiction
Vancouver Walking , Recipes from the Red Planet
Marion Quednau
1952
novelist, poet, short stories, children's literature
The Butterfly Chair , Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
Sina Queyras
1963
poet, novelist
Lemon Hound , MxT , Autobiography of Childhood
Christine Quintana
playwright
Selfie
Pascale Quiviger
1969
novelist
Le Cercle parfait
R
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Tom Rachman
1974
novelist
The Imperfectionists
Thomas Head Raddall
1903
1994
novelist
The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek , At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories
Kenneth Radu
1945
novelist, poet, short stories
The Cost of Living , Distant Relations , A Private Performance
Nasrin Rahimieh
Persian literature
Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage
Deepa Rajagopalan
short stories
Peacocks of Instagram
Danny Ramadan
1984
novelist, short stories
Death and Other Fools , Aria , The Clothesline Swing
Menaka Raman-Wilms
journalist, novelist
The Rooftop Garden
Gurcharan Rampuri
1929
2018
Gord Rand
playwright
Orgy in the Lighthouse , The Trouble with Mr. Adams
Edeet Ravel
1955
novelist
A Wall of Light , Ten Thousand Lovers
Angela Rawlings
1978
Ben Rayner
music journalist
Mark A. Rayner
James Reaney
1926
2008
poet, playwright
The Red Heart , A Suit of Nettles , Colours in the Dark , Black Donnelly's
Kelly Rebar
1956
playwright, screenwriter
Bordertown Café
Duke Redbird
1939
poet, academic, journalist
Corey Redekop
novelist, short stories
Husk
Michael Redhill
1966
novelist, short stories
Martin Sloane , Bellevue Square
Beatrice Redpath
1886
1937
poet, short stories
Drawn Shutters , White Lilac
Roberta Rees
1954
novelist, poet, short stories
Eyes Like Pigeons , Beneath the Faceless Mountain , Long After Fathers
Iain Reid
1980
novelist, memoirist
The Truth About Luck , I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Gayla Reid
1945
novels, short stories
To Be There With You
Raziel Reid
1990
young adult novelist
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Stephen Reid
1950
2018
memoirist, novelist
Jack Rabbit Parole
Zalika Reid-Benta
short stories
Frying Plantain
Kati Rekai
1921
2010
The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo, and Cica and How They Discover Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Budapest, Vienna, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece
Maria Reva
short stories
Good Citizens Need Not Fear
Shane Rhodes
poet
The Holding Pattern , The Bindery
François Ricard
1947
2022
biographer, essayist
La littérature contre elle-même , Gabrielle Roy, une vie
Nino Ricci
1959
novelist
Lives of the Saints
Waubgeshig Rice
novelist, short stories
Midnight Sweatlodge , Legacy , Moon of the Crusted Snow
David Adams Richards
1950
novelist
The Bay of Love and Sorrows , Mercy Among the Children , Nights Below Station Street
Evelyn M. Richardson
1902
1976
novelist
Desired Haven
Jael Richardson
memoirist, playwright
The Stone Thrower
John Richardson
1796
1852
novelist
Wacousta
Robin Richardson
poet
Grunt of the Minotaur , Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis , Sit How You Want
Edward Riche
1961
novelist, screenwriter
Rare Birds
Daniel Richler
1957
novelist, journalist
Kicking Tomorrow
Emma Richler
1961
novelist, short stories
Sister Crazy , Feed My Dear Dogs
Jacob Richler
journalist
Mordecai Richler
1931
2001
novelist
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , Joshua Then and Now , Barney's Version
Nancy Richler
1957
2018
novelist
Your Mouth Is Lovely , The Impostor Bride
Noah Richler
journalist
This Is My Country, What's Yours? , What We Talk About When We Talk About War
Emily Riddle
poet
The Big Melt
Tanis Rideout
poet, novelist
Above All Things
Sandra Ridley
poet
Silvija , Vixen
T. F. Rigelhof
1944
novelist, memoirist, literary critic
A Blue Boy in a Black Dress
Sharon Riis
1947
2016
novelist, short stories, screenwriter
The True Story of Ida Johnson , Savage Messiah
Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton)
1895
1960
novelist
Thirty Acres
Charles Ritchie
1906
1995
diarist
An Appetite for Life , The Siren Years
Thomas Beattie Roberton
1879
1936
journalist, critic
TBR: Newspaper Pieces
Charles G.D. Roberts
1860
1943
poet, novelist
The Tantramar Revisited , The Iceberg
Ken Roberts
1946
Paul William Roberts
1950
2019
Bill Robertson
screenwriter
The Events Leading Up to My Death , Apartment Hunting
Lisa Robertson
1961
poet
Margaret Murray Robertson
1823
1897
novelist
John Daniel Robins
1884
1952
humorist
The Incomplete Anglers
Eden Robinson
1968
novelist
Monkey Beach , Son of a Trickster
J. Jill Robinson
1955
short stories, creative non-fiction
Lovely in Her Bones , Residual Desire
Peter Robinson
1950
mystery
Marc Robitaille
novels, sports history, film
Histoires d'hiver , Un été sans point ni coup sûr , Il était une fois les Expos
Harriet A. Roche
1835
1921
pioneer, traveler
On Trek in the Transvaal
Ajmer Rode
poet, playwright, translator
Spider Robinson
1948
science fiction, humorist
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Grace Dean Rogers
1863
1958
Novelist, historian
Stories of the Land of Evangeline
Ian Rogers
1976
supernatural and horror fiction
Every House Is Haunted
Linda Rogers
1944
Richard Rohmer
1924
Mathieu Rolland
1989
novelist
Souvenir de Night , De grandes personnes
Leon Rooke
1934
novelist
Shakespeare's Dog , A Bolt of White Cloth
Patrick Roscoe
1967
novelist, short stories
Birthmarks , God's Peculiar Care
Rose Reisman
nutritiology writer
Manhattan's Dessert Scene: New York City's Top Dessert Spots Reveal Their Secret Recipes
Rachel Rose
1970
poet
Song and Spectacle
Simon Rose
1961
science fiction and fantasy novelist
The Alchemist's Portrait , Sorcerer's Letterbox , The Clone Conspiracy
Rebecca Rosenblum
1978
short stories
Once
Leonard Rosmarin
novelist
Sinclair Ross
1908
1996
short stories, novelist
As for Me and My House Sawbones Memorial
Stuart Ross
1959
poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers , A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
Nancy-Gay Rotstein
poet, novelist
Jeffrey Round
poet, mysteries
The P-Town Murders , Death in Key West , Lake on the Mountain
Andrea Routley
short stories
Jane and the Whales
André Roy
1944
poet, critic
Action writing
Gabrielle Roy
1909
1983
novelist
The Tin Flute , Children of My Heart
Holley Rubinsky
1943
2015
novelist, short stories
At First I Hope For Rescue , Rapid Transits and Other Stores , Beyond This Point
Jane Rule
1931
2007
novelist
Desert of the Heart
Alexei Maxim Russell
1976
novelist
Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective
Harley Rustad
1985
non-fiction author, journalist
Big Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death
Elizabeth Ruth
1968
novelist
Smoke
Naben Ruthnum
novelist, non-fiction
Curry: Reading, Eating and Race , Find You in the Dark
Garry Ryan
mysteries, historical fiction
The Lucky Elephant Restaurant , Malabarista , Blackbirds
George Ryga
1932
1987
playwright and novelist
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Geoff Ryman
1951
S
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Michelle Sagara
1963
fantasy
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
playwright
Gas Girls , A Man A Fish
Rodney Saint-Éloi
poet
Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre , Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé
Kerri Sakamoto
1960
novelist
The Electrical Field , One Hundred Million Hearts
Mark Sakamoto
1977
memoirist
Forgiveness
Trish Salah
poet
Wanting in Arabic
Rebecca Salazar
poet
sulphurtongue
G. Herbert Sallans
1895
1960
novelist
Little Man
Rick Salutin
1942
columnist, novelist
A Man of Little Faith
Laura G. Salverson
1890
1970
novelist
The Dark Weaver
Liselle Sambury
fantasy, young adult
Blood Like Magic
Shelly Sanders
1964
novelist, journalist
The Rachel Trilogy
Susan Sanford Blades
novelist
Fake It So Real
Robyn Sarah
1949
poet, short stories
Promise of Shelter , My Shoes Are Killing Me
Mairuth Sarsfield
1925
2013
novelist
No Crystal Stair
Jocelyne Saucier
1948
novelist
Il pleuvait des oiseaux
John Ralston Saul
1947
essayist, philosopher
The Unconscious Civilization
Gloria Sawai
1932
2011
short stories, novelist
A Song for Nettie Johnson
Robert J. Sawyer
1960
science fiction
The Neanderthal Parallax , Calculating God , Flashforward , Rollback
Arthur Scaife
1855
1934
short stories, novelist, poetry
Three Letters of Credit and Other Stories
Dominique Scali
novelist
À la recherche de New Babylon
Alan Scarfe
1946
novelist
The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit
Jacob Scheier
1980
poet
More to Keep Us Warm
Libby Scheier
1946
2000
poet, short stories
Kaddish for My Father , Saints & Runners
Diane Schoemperlen
1954
novelist
In the Language of Love , Forms of Devotion
Stephen Scobie
1943
poet
McAlmon's Chinese Opera
Anakana Schofield
1971
novelist
Malarky
Adam Lewis Schroeder
novelist, short stories
In the Fabled East
Andreas Schroeder
1946
Gregory Scofield
1966
poet
The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
Chris Scott
1945
novelist
Antichthon , Jack
Duncan Campbell Scott
1862
1947
poet
In the Village of Viger
Frank Scott
1899
1985
poet
Gail Scott
1945
novelist, essayist
My Paris , The Obituary , Biting the Error
Jordan Scott
poet
Silt , blert , Night & Ox
R.T.M. Scott
1882
1966
novelist
Secret Service Smith
Richard Scrimger
children's writer, novelist
Jasmine Sealy
novelist, short stories
The Island of Forgetting
Djanet Sears
1959
playwright
The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
Paul Seesequasis
novelist, journalist
Tobacco Wars , Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun
Benjamin Sehene
1959
novelist, essayist, political writer
Sarah Selecky
1974
short stories
This Cake Is for the Party
Bev Sellars
memoirist
They Called Me Number One
Shyam Selvadurai
1965
novelist
Funny Boy , Cinnamon Gardens
Bruce Serafin
2007
creative non-fiction
Stardust
Robert W. Service
1874
1958
poet
The Cremation of Sam McGee , The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Ernest Thompson Seton
1860
1946
Mark Shainblum
1963
Lionel Shapiro
1908
1958
novelist, journalist
The Sixth Of June , They Left The Back Door Open
Leanne Shapton
1973
graphic novelist
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry
Gaurav Sharma
1992
novelist, author
God of the Sullied , Gone are the Days , The Indian Story of an Author
Sarah Sheard
1953
Sheung-King
novelist
You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
Murphy O. Shewchuk
1943
writer, photographer
Okanagan Trips and Trails , Coquihalla Trips and Trails , Cariboo Trips and Trails
Francis Sherman
1871
1926
poet
Valerie Sherrard
1957
children's and young adult literature
The Glory Wind
Carol Shields
1935
2003
novelist, short stories
The Stone Diaries , Larry's Party
Erin Shields
playwright
If We Were Birds
Aki Shimazaki
1954
Ann Shin
poet, novelist, filmmaker
The Last Exiles
Adam Shortt
1859
1931
historian
Canada and its Provinces , (23 vols)
Vivek Shraya
1981
short stories
God Loves Hair
Eric Siblin
journalist, music writer
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Maggie Siggins
1942
historian, biographies
Riel
Antanas Sileika
1953
novels, fiction, essays
Buying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller
Ana Siljak
historian
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World
Makeda Silvera
1955
The Heart Does Not Bend
Louise Simard
1950
Jessie Sime
1868
1958
Novelist
Our Little Life
Bren Simmers
1976
poet
Night Gears
Merilyn Simonds
1949
creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist
The Convict Lover , The Valour and the Horror , The Paradise Project
Colin Simpson
Bardia Sinaee
poet
Intruder
Andy Sinclair
novelist, short stories
Breathing Lessons
Jaspreet Singh
1969
Mark Sinnett
novelist, poet, short stories
The Landing , The Border Guards , The Carnivore
George Sipos
memoirist, poet
The Geography of Arrival , Anything But the Moon
Johanna Skibsrud
1980
novelist, poet
The Sentimentalists
Marsha Skrypuch
1954
young adult, children's fiction, narrative non-fiction
Making Bombs for Hitler , Stolen Child , Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War
Josef Skvorecky
1924
2012
novelist, essayist
The Engineer of Human Souls
Joshua Slocum
1844
1909
Carolyn Smart
1952
poet
Hooked
Elizabeth Smart
1913
1986
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Gwen Smid
1979
fiction, picture books
Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario
Jean Edward Smith
1932
2019
Michael V. Smith
novelist
Cumberland
Neil Smith
1964
short stories
Bang Crunch
Russell Smith
1963
journalist, novelist
How Insensitive , Muriella Pent
Carrie Snyder
short stories
Hair Hat , The Juliet Stories
Mary Soderstrom
1942
novelist, short stories, non-fiction
The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
Caro Soles
mystery, science fiction, fantasy, erotica
Drag Queen in the Court of Death
Evan Solomon
1968
journalist, novelist
Crossing the Distance
Madeline Sonik
1960
J. Dewey Soper
1893
1982
naturalist
Carolyn Marie Souaid
1959
poet, editor
Swimming into the Light , Blood is Blood
Gaétan Soucy
1958
2013
novelist
L'Immaculée conception , La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
Raymond Souster
1921
2012
poet
Esta Spalding
Linda Spalding
1943
The Follow ,The Purchase
Rae Spoon
songwriter, short stories
First Spring Grass Fire
Michelle Spring
1947
sociologist, mystery fiction
Every Breath You Take , Standing in the Shadows , In the Midnight Hour
Birk Sproxton
1943
2007
Amy Spurway
novelist
Crow
Eva Stachniak
1952
novelist
Necessary Lies , The Winter Garden
Edna Staebler
1906
2006
journalist, Mennonite cooking
Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series
Ted Staunton
1956
children's literature, picture books
Puddleman , Who I'm Not , Harry and Clare’s Amazing Staycation
Robert Stead
1880
1959
novelist, poet
Grain
John Steffler
1947
poet, novelist
The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Fred Stenson
1951
Alexander Maitland Stephen
1882
1942
poet, novelist
The Rosary Of Pan , The Kingdom Of The Sun
Arran Stephens
1944
The Compassionate Diet
Angela Sterritt
journalist
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls'
Richard Stevenson
1952
Robin Stevenson
children's/young adult literature
Shannon Stewart
poet, children's literature
Walter Stewart
1941
2004
journalist, editor
Bill Stilwell
Kathy Stinson
1952
John Elizabeth Stintzi
poet, novelist
Vanishing Monuments , Junebat
Cassie Stocks
novelist
Dance, Gladys, Dance
Aryeh Lev Stollman
1954
novelist, short stories
The Far Euphrates , The Illuminated Soul
Anne Stone
Indelible
Arthur G. Storey
1915
2005
novelist
Prairie Harvest
Allan Stratton
1951
playwright
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
1874
1950
screenwriter, novelist
Cordelia Strube
1960
novelist, dramatist
Alex & Zee , Teaching Pigs to Sing , Lemon
Alan Sullivan
1868
1947
poet, novelist
Three Came to Ville Marie
Moez Surani
1979
poet
Reticent Bodies
Rajiv Surendra
1989
memoirist
The Elephants in My Backyard
Joel A. Sutherland
1980
novelist, short stories
Frozen Blood
David Suzuki
1936
scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host
The Sacred Balance , Genethics , The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future
Mary Swan
1953
novelist, short stories
The Boys in the Trees
Susan Swan
1945
Anna Swanson
poet
The Nights Also
Robert Sward
1933
Margaret Sweatman
1953
novelist
Fox, The Players
George Swede
1940
Alastair Sweeny
1946
Michael Ernest Sweet
1979
poetry, essay, nonfiction
Guy Sylvestre
1918
2010
journalist, critic
Olivier Sylvestre
1982
playwright, short stories
La beauté du monde , La loi de la gravité , Noms fictifs
Harry L. Symons
1892
1962
novelist, humorist
Ojibway Melody
Scott Symons
1933
2009
novelist, journalist
Place d'Armes , Civic Square
Shawn Syms
1970
journalist, short stories
Nothing Looks Familiar
George Szanto
1940
novels, short stories, criticism, biography, plays
Not Working , Friends & Marriages , Theater and Propaganda , Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island , Bog Tender
Gillian Sze
poet
Quiet Night Think
Anne Szumigalski
1922
1999
poet
Voice
T
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Tanya Talaga
journalist
Seven Fallen Feathers
Kenneth Tam
1984
novelist
Defense Command , His Majesty's New World , The Champions , Equation Series
Mariko Tamaki
1975
short fiction, plays, graphic novelist
Skim , Fake ID , (You) Set Me on Fire
Darcy Tamayose
novelist, short stories
Odori , Ezra's Ghosts
Shelley Tanaka
1950
editor, children's non-fiction
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator , On Board the Titanic
Jordan Tannahill
1988
playwright
Bravislovia , rihannaboi95 , Late Company
Olivia Tapiero
1990
novelist
Les Murs , Rien du tout
Jules-Paul Tardivel
1851
1905
Dennis E. Taylor
novelist, short stories
Bobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap
Gladys Taylor
1917
2015
novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor
Pine Roots , The King Tree , Alone in the Australian Outback , Alone in the Boardroom
Timothy Taylor
1963
novelist, short stories
Stanley Park
Saeed Teebi
short stories
Her First Palestinian
Ningeokuluk Teevee
1963
children's literature
Alego
Wayne Tefs
1947
2014
Richard Teleky
1944
novelist, poet, short stories, non-fiction
The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin , Pack Up the Moon
Charles Templeton
1915
2001
John Terpstra
1953
poet
Bill Terry
non-fiction, gardening
Blue Heaven
Adeline Margaret Tesky
1855
1924
novelist, short stories
Where the Sugar Maple Grows
Souvankham Thammavongsa
1978
poet, short stories
Small Arguments , Light , How to Pronounce Knife
Yasuko Thanh
1971
novelist, short stories
Floating Like the Dead
France Théoret
1942
novelist, poet
L'homme qui peignait Staline , Cruauté du jeu
Denis Thériault
1959
Yves Thériault
1915
1983
novelist, short stories
Agaguk , Ashini , Aaron , La Fille laide
Sharon Thesen
1946
poet
The Good Bacteria
Serge Patrice Thibodeau
1959
poet
Le Quatuor de l'errance , La Traversée du désert , Seul on est , Le cycle de Prague
Madeleine Thien
1974
short stories, novelist
Simple Recipes , Certainty , Dogs at the Perimeter
Kai Cheng Thom
1991
novelist, poet
a place called No Homeland , Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Audrey Thomas
1935
novelist
Songs My Mother Taught Me , Coming Down from Wa
Colin Thomas
1939
playwright
One Thousand Cranes , Two Weeks Twice a Year , Flesh and Blood , Sex Is My Religion
Joan Thomas
1949
novelist
Reading by Lightning , Curiosity , The Opening Sky , Five Wives
Kai Thomas
novelist
In the Upper Country
Clayton Thomas-Müller
memoirist
Life in the City of Dirty Water
John Thompson
1938
1976
Peggy Thompson
1901
2009
screenwriter
The Lotus Eaters , Better Than Chocolate
Jan Thornhill
1955
children's literature, science
I Found a Dead Bird , The Wildlife ABC
Elizabeth Thornton
1940
2010
Russell Thornton
1959
poet
House Built of Rain , Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
Kim Thúy
1968
novelist
Ru
Matthew Tierney
1970
poet
Probably Inevitable
Sara Tilley
1978
novelist, playwright
Skin Room , Duke
Miriam Toews
1964
novelist
A Complicated Kindness , Irma Voth , All My Puny Sorrows
Morley Torgov
1927
Lola Lemire Tostevin
Gérald Tougas
1933
2019
novelist, short stories
La Mauvaise foi , Le deuxième train de la nuit
Paul Toupin
1918
1993
playwright, essayist, memoirist
Brutus , Souvenirs pour demain
William Toye
1926
2024
author, editor
Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson
Matthew J. Trafford
short stories
The Divinity Gene
Michaël Trahan
1984
poet
Nœud coulant , La raison des fleurs
Catharine Parr Traill
1802
1899
memoirist
Life in the Backwoods of Canada
Rhea Tregebov
1953
poet
Remembering History
Lise Tremblay
1957
Michel Tremblay
1942
playwright
Les Belles-soeurs
Sylvain Trudel
1963
novelist
Stuart Trueman
1911
1995
journalist, humorist, historian
You're Only as Old as You Act
Brian Tucker
novelist
Big White Knuckles
Aren X. Tulchinsky
1958
novelist, screenwriter
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky , Love Ruins Everything , In Her Nature
Élise Turcotte
1957
Roxane Turcotte
1952
children's and youth literature writer
Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre
Pierre Turgeon
1947
novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher
The First Person , Sweet Poison , Oberon Press 1983
Chris Turner
1973
non-fiction
Planet Simpson , The Geography of Hope
Michael Turner
1962
novelist, songwriter
American Whiskey Bar , Hard Core Logo
Arielle Twist
poet
Disintegrate / Dissociate
U
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Andrew Unger
1979
novelist, satirist
Once Removed , The Daily Bonnet
Marie Uguay
1955
1981
poet
Signe et rumeur
Chimwemwe Undi
poet
Scientific Marvel
Priscila Uppal
1974
2018
poet, novelist
The Divine Economy of Salvation
Emily Urquhart
1977
non-fiction
Beyond the Pale , Ordinary Wonder Tales , The Age of Creativity
Jane Urquhart
1949
novelist
Away , The Stone Carvers
Geoffrey Ursell
1943
2021
novelist, playwright, poet
Perdue, or How the West Was Lost , Saskatoon Pie
David UU (David W. Harris)
1948
1994
visual poet
Chopped Liver
V
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
W. D. Valgardson
1939
novelist, poet, short stories
The Girl with the Botticelli Face , Bloodflowers: Ten Stories
Pierre Vallières
1938
1998
political essayist
Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique
Edo Van Belkom
1962
horror
Army of the Dead , Wyrm Wolf
Richard Van Camp
1971
novelist, short stories, children's literature
The Lesser Blessed
Guy Vanderhaeghe
1951
novelist, short stories
The Englishman's Boy , The Last Crossing
Aritha Van Herk
1954
novelist
Judith , No Fixed Address
Kasia Van Schaik
novelist
We Have Never Lived on Earth
A. E. van Vogt
1912
2000
science fiction
Children of Tomorrow , Empire of the Atom
Jean Vanier
1928
2019
theologian
Becoming Human
Anuja Varghese
short stories
Chrysalis
Sugith Varughese
1957
playwright, film and television
The Postman , Entitlement , Kumar and Mr. Jones
M. G. Vassanji
1950
novelist
The Book of Secrets , The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Caelum Vatnsdal
1970
film history
They Came From Within , You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me
R. M. Vaughan
1965
2020
novelist, poet
A Quilted Heart , Spells
Guillermo Verdecchia
1962
playwright
Insomnia , The Noam Chomsky Lectures
Robert Verdun
non-fiction, investigative reporting
The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada
Paul Vermeersch
1973
poet
Burn
Katherena Vermette
1977
poet, children's literature
North End Love Songs
Nancy Vickers
1946
novelist, poet
Capharnaum
Gilles Vigneault
1928
poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter
Mon pays , La manikoutai , Il en est passé
Margaret Visser
1940
philosopher
The Geometry of Love , Beyond Fate
Claude Vivier
1948
1983
composer, poet, librettist
Kopernikus , Lonely Child , Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire
Élisabeth Vonarburg
1947
science fiction
Chroniques du pays des mères
Garth Von Buchholz
1968
poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction
Mad Shadows , Land of Milk and Honey , The Songs of Songs , 13 Dark Poems
John Voss
1858
1922
memoirs
The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
Peter Vronsky
1956
investigative historian, filmmaker
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters , Female Serial Killers , Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present , Ridgeway: The Fenian-American Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada , American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000
Caroline Vu
1959
fiction
Palawan Story , That Summer in Provincetown , Un été à Provincetown
Prvoslav Vujcic
1960
poet, author
Thoughts of a Corpse , Castration of the Wind
Dan Vyleta
1974
novelist, historian
Pavel & I , The Quiet Twin
W
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Marie Wadden
non-fiction
Where the Pavement Ends , Nitassinan
Tracey Waddleton
short stories
Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious
Mark Sweeten Wade
1858
1929
historian
The Cariboo Road , The Overlanders of '62
Richard Wagamese
1955
2017
novelist
Indian Horse , Medicine Walk
Colleen Wagner
1949
playwright
The Monument
Fred Wah
1939
poet, novelist
Diamond Grill , Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek , Waiting for Saskatchewan
David Walker
1911
1992
novelist
The Pillar , Digby
Joan Walker
novelist
Pardon My Parka , Repent at Leisure
Aimee Wall
novelist
We, Jane
Bronwen Wallace
1945
1989
poet, short stories
Signs of the Former Tenant , People You'd Trust Your Life To
Frederick William Wallace
1886
1958
journalist, novelist
Wooden Ships and Iron Men
William Stewart Wallace
1884
1970
historian
The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Paul A. W. Wallace
1891
1967
historian, anthropologist
Indians in Pennsylvania
Tom Walmsley
1948
novelist, dramatist, poet
Doctor Tin
Natalie Zina Walschots
1983
novelist, poet
Hench
Eric Walters
1957
novelist
Safe As Houses , Shattered , Camp X , Run
John Leigh Walters
1933
creative non-fiction
A Very Capable Life
Jack Wang
short stories
We Two Alone
Russell Wangersky
novelist, short stories, journalist
The Hour of Bad Decisions , Burning Down the House , The Glass Harmonica
Ryan Ward
1990
screenwriter
Son of the Sunshine
Sabrina Ward Harrison
1975
spirituality, self-help
Spilling Open
Dianne Warren
1950
playwright, novelist, short stories
Serpent in the Night Sky , Club Chernobyl , Cool Water
David Watmough
1926
2017
playwright, novelist, short stories
Names for the Numbered Years , The Time of Kingfishers
Paul Watson
1950
conservationist, author, activist, poet
Earth Force , Earth Force 2 , The War that Saved the Whales , Quotations , Songs from the Southern Ocean , Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity , The Haunted Mariner , Dealing with Climate Change and Stress , Orcapedia , Captain Paul Watson: Interview With a Pirate , Urgence! Il Faut Sauver Les Océans , Seal Wars , Ocean Warrior
Sheila Watson
1909
1998
novelist
The Double Hook
Alison Watt
1957
creative non-fiction, poet
The Last Island
Thomas Waugh
1948
academic, art and film historian
Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall , Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection
Alison Wearing
1967
travel
Honeymoon in Purdah
Jessica L. Webb
mysteries
Pathogen , Repercussions
Barry Webster
1961
novels, short stories; magic realism
The Sound of All Flesh , The Lava in My Bones
Andrew Wedderburn
novelist
The Milk Chicken Bomb
John Weier
1949
poet
Stand the Sacred Tree
Matthew James Weigel
poet
Whitemud Walking
Steve Weiner
1947
novelist
The Museum of Love
William Weintraub
1926
2017
Helen Weinzweig
1915
2010
novelist, short stories
Basic Black with Pearls , A View from the Roof
Merrily Weisbord
journalist
The Love Queen of Malabar , The Valour and the Horror
Elizabeth Wellburn
1955
children's literature
Echoes From the Square
Zachariah Wells
1976
poet, critic
Fool's Errand , Unsettled
Andrea Werhun
memoirist
Modern Whore
Martin West
novelist, short stories
Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands , Long Ride Yellow
Andrew Westoll
science, travel, non-fiction
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Robert Paul Weston
1975
poet, children's literature
Zorgamazoo , Dust City
Michael Wex
1954
novelist, playwright, non-fiction
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist
Ron Weyman
1915
2007
television, mystery, memoir
Sherlock Holmes and the Mark of the Beast , Sherlock Holmes and the Ultimate Disguise , Sherlock Holmes Travels in the Canadian West
Dawud Wharnsby
1972
poet, songwriter
Nasheed Artist
Thomas Wharton
1963
novelist
Salamander , Icefields
Sherry White
screenwriter
Crackie , Down to the Dirt
Joshua Whitehead
poet, novelist
Full-Metal Indigiqueer , Johnny Appleseed
William Whitehead
1931
2018
documentarian, memoirist
Words to Live By
Douglas Whiteway
novelist, journalist
Father Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead
Zoe Whittall
1976
Armin Wiebe
1948
novelist, playwright
The Salvation of Yasch Siemens , Tatsea
Rudy Wiebe
1934
novelist
A Discovery of Strangers , The Temptations of Big Bear , Peace Shall Destroy Many
Audrée Wilhelmy
1985
novelist
Oss , Les Sangs
Helen Waldstein Wilkes
1936
creative non-fiction
Letters from the Lost
Elyse Willems
1986
children's literature
A Night in Halloween House
Fred Williams
1863
1944
journalism, history
The Canadian Book of Days
Jeffery Williams
1920
2011
military historian
Byng of Vimy , Far from Home
Deborah Willis
1982
fiction writer
Vanishing , The Dark and Other Love Stories
Jenny Heijun Wills
memoirist
Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related
Alan R. Wilson
novelist, poet
Before the Flood
Anne Elizabeth Wilson
1901
1946
poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer
Eager Footsteps
Antoine Wilson
1971
novelist
Panorama City , Mouth to Mouth
Douglas Wilson
1950
1992
novelist, poet
Labour of Love
Eric Wilson
1940
mysteries
Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books)
Ethel Wilson
1888
1980
novelist
Swamp Angel , Hetty Dorval , The Window
John Wilson
1951
historical fiction
Four Steps to Death , Flames of the Tiger , And in the Morning
Jonathan Wilson
playwright
My Own Private Oshawa , Kilt
Robert Charles Wilson
1953
science fiction
Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America , Darwinia , Axis , Spin
Sheri-D Wilson
1958
poet, playwright
The Sweet Taste of Lightning , Boy Wonder
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
1983
novelist
Small Beauty
Carol Windley
1947
novelist, short stories
Home Schooling
Rob Winger
1974
poet
Muybridge's Horse
Kathleen Winter
1960
novelist, short stories
Boys , Annabel
Michael Winter
1965
novelist
This All Happened , The Big Why
Kari-Lynn Winters
1969
children's literature, dramatist
Jeffrey and Sloth , On My Walk
Wyndham Wise
1947
film critic and historian
Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Adele Wiseman
1928
1992
novelist, poet
The Sacrifice , Old Women at Play
Christina Wong
novelist, playwright
Denison Avenue
Lindsay Wong
memoirist
The Woo Woo
Alan Woo
1977
children's literature, poet, short stories
Maggie's Chopsticks
Jaime Woo
non-fiction
Meet Grindr
George Woodcock
1912
1995
poet, critic
Anarchism , The Crystal Spirit
Susan Wood
1948
1980
critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan
Energumen ; criticism
Marnie Woodrow
1969
novelist
Spelling Mississippi
Grahame Woods
1935
novelist, screenwriter
Bloody Harvest , War Brides , Glory Enough for All
Lance Woolaver
1948
poet, playwright
World Without Shadows , Lord Strange
Eric Wright
1929
2015
mysteries
The Night the Gods Smiled , Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man
J. F. C. Wright
1904
1970
journalist, historian
Slava Bohu , Saskatchewan: The History of a Province
L. R. Wright
1939
2001
mysteries
The Suspect , Strangers Among Us
Richard B. Wright
1937
2017
novelist
Clara Callan
Sarah Wylie
1989
novelist, young adult literature
All These Lives
Tim Wynne-Jones
1948
novelist, children's literature
Some of the Kinder Planets , Mischief City , The Maestro
Tim Wynveen
novelist
Angel Falls , Sweeter Life , Balloon
X
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Xiaowen Zeng
journalist, short stories
Y
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
Joel Yanofsky
novelist
Jacob's Ladder
Pierre Yergeau
1957
novelist
L'écrivain public
Ying Chen
1961
novelist
L'ingratitude , Immobile
Jean Yoon
1962
poet, playwright
The Yoko Ono Project
Alissa York
1970
novelist, short stories
Effigy
Elwy Yost
1925
2011
mysteries
White Shadows
Graham Yost
1959
screenwriter
Speed
David Young
1946
novelist, playwright
Inexpressible Island , Glenn
d'bi young
1977
poet, playwright
blood.claat: one womban story
Ian Young
1945
poet, non-fiction, journalist
The Gay Muse , The Male Homosexual in Literature
Patricia Young
1954
poet, short stories
Ruin & Beauty , More Watery Still , Airstream
Scott Young
1918
2005
biographer, sportswriter, mysteries
A Writer's Life , Murder in a Cold Climate
Terence Young
1953
novelist, poet, short stories
The Island in Winter , Rhymes with Useless , After Goodlake's
Josée Yvon
1950
1994
poet, playwright
Danseuse-mamelouk , Maîtresses-Cherokees
Z
Name
Born
Died
Genre
Notable works
A. Light Zachary
poet
More Sure
Eve Zaremba
1930
mysteries
A Reason to Kill , The Butterfly Effect
Robert Zend
1929
1985
poet, fiction, multimedia artist
Daymares , Oāb
Xiran Jay Zhao
Novelist
Iron Widow
David Zieroth
1946
poet
How I Joined Humanity at Last , The Fly in Autumn
Larry Zolf
1934
2011
journalist
Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate , Scorpions for Sale
Syd Zolf
1968
poet
Human Resources , Masque
Daniel Zomparelli
poet, short stories
Davie Street Translations , Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Carolyn Zonailo
1947
poet
The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems
Jan Zwicky
1955
poet, essayist
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
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