List of Canadian writers Totally Explained

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This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Writers are only to be listed here if they already have a Wikipedia article. Dead links will be removedA

Milton Acorn (1923-1986) poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
Ken Adachi
Ian Adams (born 1937)
Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) (born 1941) romantic novels, expert on child abuse
Grant Allen (1848-1899), The Woman Who Did
Sidney Allinson
George Amabile (born 1936)
Patrick Anderson (born 1915)
Rod Anderson
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
Hubert Aquin (1929-1977) modernist Québécois novelist
Gilles Archambault (born 1933)
Nelly Arcan (born 1973)
Jeannette Armstrong (born 1948)
Kelley Armstrong
David Arnason
Joanne Arnott (born 1960)
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace, Surfacing
Phillipe-Ignace Francois Aubert du Gaspe (1814-1841), author of the first French Canadian novel.
Martin Avery (born 1955) poet, short story writer, novel marathoner, Canadian sports biographer
Margaret Avison (born 1918) poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry

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Gary Barwin (born 1964) novelist and children's author

Bill Bauer

Kevin Bazzana

Nancy Bauer

Doug Beardsley, poet and educator

D. Y. Béchard

Henry Beissel, (born 1929)

Ken Belford

William E. Bell (author)

Nigel Bennett

Pierre Berton (1920-2004) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality

Dennison Berwick (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction

Gerard Bessette (born 1920), Québécois author

Navtej Bharati Indo-Canadian poet

Dave Bidini, Canadian author and musician.

Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels

Earle Birney (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama

Bill Bissett (born 1939) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry

Lise Bissonnette

Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)

Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)

Clark Blaise (born 1940)

Christian Bök (born 1966), poet, author of Eunoia

Stephanie Bolster

Roo Borson, (born 1952)

Hédi Bouraoui

George Bowering (born 1935)

Marilyn Bowering (born 1949), poet and novelist

David Boyd

George Elroy Boyd

Harry J. Boyle

Karleen Bradford

Max Braithwaite (1911-1995) prairie depression era fiction

Shannon Bramer (born 1973), poet

Dionne Brand (1953- ) poet born in Trinidad and Tobago

Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic

Jacques Brault (1933- )

Nathan Braun, Good News for All Creation (co-author) and The History and Philosophy of Marriage (4th ed., editor)

Brian Brett

Robert Bringhurst (1946- ) poet, author, and typographer

David Bromige (1944- ) poet

Barry Broadfoot (1926-2003) interviewer, author

Bertram Brooker theosophist painter

Nicole Brossard (1943- )

Sigmund Brouwer

Andy Brown fiction writer and publisher of conundrum press

Nick Brune

Ernest Buckler (1908-1984), novelist

Robert Budde (1966- ) poet and novelist

Margaret Buffie

Bonnie Burnard (1945- ) novelist, The Good House

Mick Burrs

Sharon Butala (1940- )

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Stash Cairo (born 1961)

Barry Callaghan (born 1937) novelist and journalist

Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private Place

Anne Cameron, novelist/poet/short story writer

Elspeth Cameron, (born 1943) biographer

Silver Donald Cameron (born 1937)

Natalee Caple

Bliss Carman (1861-1929) poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre

David Carpenter

Roch Carrier (born 1937) French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote La Guerre, Yes Sir!, as well as the children's story The Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey)

Anne Carson, (born 1950)

Gillian Chan

Chris Chambers

Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)

Wayson Choy (born 1939)

Lesley Choyce (born 1951)

Greg Clark (1892-1977), humorist

Austin Clarke (born 1934)

George Elliott Clarke (born 1960) poet, U of T professor

Lynn Coady (born 1970)

Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet and singer

Matt Cohen (born 1942)

John Robert Colombo (born 1936), poet and compiler of reference books

Jan Conn (born 1952), poet and insect geneticist

Karen Connelly (born 1969)

Ralph Conner (also known as Charles William Gordon), The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days.

George Ramsay Cook (born 1931), historian

Hugh Cook (born 1942)

Michael Cook

Dennis Cooley (born 1944)

Douglas Cooper, novelist

Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965), historical fiction

Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Donald Creighton (1902-1979), historian

Octave Crémazie (1827-1879), French-Canadian poet

Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist

Lorna Crozier (born 1948)

Michael Crummey

Alan Cumyn (born 1960)

Richard Cumyn

Herb Curtis

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Paulo da Costa

Frank Davey (1940- )

Robertson Davies, (1913-1995) wrote Fifth Business (1970), publisher, professor, journalist

Lauren B. Davis, (1955- ), Novelist, short story writer

Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), first historian of New France.

Mazo de la Roche (1879-1961), Jalna saga

Charles de Lint

Sandra Dempsey

Barry Dempster

Alexander Dewdney computer science and philosophy

Christopher Dewdney (1951- )

Mary di Michele

Sean Dixon

Kildare Dobbs (1923- ) short story writer

Cory Doctorow (1971- )

Don Domanski (1950- )

Candas Dorsey (1960- )

Clive Doucet

Orville Lloyd Douglas (1976- ) Writer/poet

William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant

Marcel Dubé

Réjean Ducharme (1941- )

Louis Dudek (1918-2001), poet

Dave Duncan (1933- )

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Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), author

Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954), author

Louis Emond (born 1969)

Howard Engel (1931- ), mystery writer

Marian Engel (1933-1985), novelist

Yves Engler political writer and activist

Jon Evans (born 1973), novelist

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Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (1916-2003), historian, philosopher

Brian Fawcett

Trevor Ferguson (1947- )

Will Ferguson

Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), playwright

Charlotte Fielden (1932- )

Joy Fielding (1945- ), novelist

Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), The Wars, Pilgrim

Sheree Fitch

Judith Fitzgerald

Barbara Fletcher

Helen Forrester (1919- ), novelist

Cecil Foster

Tess Fragoulis

Brad Fraser

John Anderson Fraser (1944- ), author former editor of Saturday Night Magazine

Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.

Sylvia Fraser (1935- ), novelist

Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist

David French (1939- ), playwright

Patrick Friesen

Northrop Frye (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar

Robert Fulford autodictat, journalist

Nicola Furlong

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Mavis Gallant (born 1922)

Francois Xavier Garneau (1809-1866), writer and historian

Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943), poet

Hugh Garner (1913-1979), novelist

Pauline Gedge (born 1945), novelist

Camilla Gibb (born 1968), novelist

Graeme Gibson (born 1934), novelist

Margaret Gibson

William Gibson (born 1948) Pioneering cyberpunk author, Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties

Sky Gilbert

John Patrick Gillese

Joanna Glass

Susan Glickman (born 1953), poet, novelist, critic

Jacques Godbout

Glenda Goertzen (born 1967), novelist

Leona Gom

Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926), poet and science-fiction writer

Sondra Gotlieb (born 1936), newspaper columnist

Hiromi Goto

George R. D. Goulet (born1933), writer and historian

Katherine Govier (born 1948)

David Gow (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter "Steel Toes"

Lee Gowan

Barbara Gowdy (born 1950) The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories

Neile Graham

George Grant (1918-1988), historian

Ed Greenwood, fantasy novelist and Forgotten Realms creator

Grey Owl (1888-1938), conservationist

Frederick Phillip Grove (1879-1948)

Genni Gunn (born 1949)

Kristjana Gunnars

Ralph Gustafson (1909-1995), poet

Sandra Gwyn (born 1935), novelist

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Joan Haggerty

Roderick Haig-Brown (1941- )

Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)

Thomas Chandler Haliburton One of Canada's first authors, writer of The Clockmaker series

Jane Hamilton

Claire Harris (1937- )

Barbara Haworth-Attard (1953- )

Elliott Hayes (1956-1994)

Anne Hébert, Acadian author, educator Kamouraska

Steven Heighton

David Helwig

Louis Hémon (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine

John Herbert (playwright), author of Fortune and Men's Eyes

Sheila Heti

Tomson Highway (1951- ) native playwright Dry Lips Moved to Kapuskasing

Robert Hilles (1951- )

Jack Hodgins (1938- )

Greg Hollingshead (1947- )

Michael Honeth (1970- )

Hugh Hood (1928-2000), Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).

Cornelia Hoogland (1952- )

Nalo Hopkinson

Harold Horwood (1923- )

Tanya Huff

Matt Hughes

Bruce Hunter

Catherine Hunter

Maureen Hunter

Nancy Huston (born 1953)

Hazel Hutchins

Bruce Hutchison

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Michael Ignatieff

Susan Ioannou (1944- )

Adel Iskandar (1977- ) media critic

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Donald Jack (1924-2003)

J. Robert Janes (born 1932)

K.V. Johansen (1968- )

E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)

Wentworth M. Johnson (1939-)

Wayne Johnston

Andy Jones comedic playwright and performer

Terry Jordan

John Joyce

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Surjeet Kalsey

Smaro Kamboureli

Alan Kane (1954- ), Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies

Welwyn Wilton Katz

Guy Gavriel Kay (1954- ) fantasy genre fiction

Lionel Kearns (1937- )

Sean Kennedy (1973- )

Crawford Kilian

Crad Kilodney

Jack King

Thomas King (1943- )

Mark Kingwell

W.P. Kinsella (1935- ), writes novels about baseball and natives; Field of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Robert Kroetsch (1927- )

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Larissa Lai

Tim Lander

Patrick Lane (1939- ), poet

Evelyn Lau (1971- )

Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) novelist, wrote "The Stone Angel"

Paul Laurendeau

Eric Layman

Irving Layton (1912-2006)

Stephen Leacock, (1869-1944), McGill University economics and political science prof. text book writer and international renowned humorist

Dennis Lee (1939- ) - writer of children's poetry

John B. Lee

Sky Lee

Mark Leiren-Young (1962- )

John Lent

Shar Levine

Wyndham Lewis, writer and artist

Dorothy Livesay

Douglas Lochhead, poet

Pat Lowther, poet (1935-1975)

Malcolm Lowry, (1909-1957) wrote Under the Volcano in Canada (1947)

Ronald Lee (University of Toronto's New College lecturer, author of 1971 novel entitled "Goddam Gypsy")

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Agnes Maule Machar

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Bernell MacDonald, (born 1950)

Hugh MacDonald

Jake MacDonald

Maggie MacDonald

Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)

Rory Maclean, (born 1954)

Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising

Matt MacLennan

Michael MacLennan

Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936)

Elizabeth Macleod, biographer

Rick Maddocks

Antonine Maillet (born 1929), Acadian author, educator

Kevin Major (born 1949)

Eli Mandel

David Manicom (born 1960) poet, novelist, diplomat.

Lee Maracle (born 1950) poet/novelist from the Squamish First Nation. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.

Daphne Marlatt (born 1942)

Paul Marlowe

John Marlyn, (1912-1985)

David Margoshes (born 1941)

Nicole Markotic

Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner

Carol Matas (born 1949)

Shirlee Smith Matheson

Steve McCaffery

Nellie McClung, crusading journalist, MP

John McCrae, (1872-1918), ("In Flanders' Fields")

David McFadden

Leslie McFarlane, (1902-1977), aka Franklin W. Dixon who wrote the Hardy Boys novels.

James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history

Ami McKay, The Birth House

Don McKay poet

Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author

Susan McMaster

Sylvia McNicoll

John Melady

Judith Merril

John Metcalf (born 1938)

Anne Michaels

Roy Miki

Ron Miksha, (born 1954), Bad Beekeeping

Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance

Jared Mitchell

W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), Who has Seen the Wind

Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables

Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush

Brian Moore (1921-1999)

Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)

Lisa Moore

Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet

Pierre Morency (born 1942), poet and playwright

Daniel David Moses, Aboriginal poet and playwright

Tara Moss (born 1973) - wrote Fetish

Erin Moure

Farley Mowat, (born 1921) Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America

Robert Munsch (born 1945), American born writer of children's stories

Alice Munro, (born 1931)

Jim Munroe

John Murrell

Susan Musgrave (born 1951), poet and novelist

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Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), French-Canadian poet

John Newlove

bpNichol (1944-1988), poet

Hal Niedzviecki

Henri Nouwen

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983)

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Sheldon Oberman

Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ) wrote The English Patient (1993)

Kenneth Oppel

Stephen Osborne

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P.K. Page (born 1916)

Kevin Patterson

Michael Patterson

Raymond M Patterson

Sasenarine Persaud Essayist, short story writer, novelist, and poet (born Guyana)

Len Peterson

Ted Plantos

Daniel Poliquin

Sharon Pollock (born 1936)

Jacques Poulin, "The "Jimmy" Trilogy" (translated titled)

B.W. Powe

E.J. Pratt (1883-1964), poet

Robert Priest, poet

Al Purdy (born 1918), poet

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Darlene Quaife

Andy Quan (born 1969) Author of Calendar Boy, Slant and Six Positions

Paul Quarrington (born 1953)

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Thomas Raddall (1903-1994), historical novelist

Mark A. Rayner

Gurcharan Rampuri

Angela Rawlings

Wayne Ray short stories

Michael Redhill

Nino Ricci (born 1959)

David Adams Richards, (1950- )

Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)

Ringuet (Phllipe Panneton) (1895-1960)

Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943) author of a number of "animal stories"

Ken Roberts

Paul William Roberts

Lisa Robertson (poet)

Eden Robinson

Peter Robinson (1950-), English-born Canadian-based detective novelist

Ajmer Rode Indo-Canadian writer, bilingual, poet, playwright, translator

Spider Robinson American born Science-Fiction/humour writer, "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon"

Richard Rohmer (born 1924)

Linda Rogers

Leon Rooke (born 1934)

Patrick Roscoe

Sinclair Ross 1908-1996, renowned short story author

Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)The Tin Flute

Jane Rule (1931-2007) Desert of the Heart

George Ryga (1932-1987), playwright and novelist

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Michelle Sagara West, fantasy author

Rick Salutin (born 1942), political writer, essayist editor

John Ralston Saul, (born 1947) businessman, essayist, diplomat

Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)

Andreas Schroeder

Alvin Schwartz

Frank Scott (1899-1985), poet

Djanet Sears, playwright and actor

Benjamin Sehene (born 1959 in Rwanda novelist, essayist, and political writer

Shyam Selvadurai

Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet of the Yukon

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)

Mark Shainblum

Murphy O. Shewchuk

Carol Shields, (1935-2003)

Josef Skvorecky (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia, professor of English in Canada since 1969, but still writing his fiction in Czech), novelist, essayist, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984 Governor General's Award)

Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), sailor and author

Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)

Jean Edward Smith

Neil Smith

Russell Smith

Evan Solomon

J. Dewey Soper (1893-1982), Arctic birds and mammals

Raymond Souster (born 1921), poet

Esta Spalding

Birk Sproxton (1943- )

Edna Staebler

Harold Standish (1919-1972), poet and novelist

Richard Stevenson

Walter Stewart (1941-2004)

Anne Stone

Guy Sylvestre journalist, author, critic

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Timothy Taylor

John Terpstra (poet)

Yves Theriault (1915-1983)

Sharon Thesen

Audrey Thomas

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) wrote about the Canadian wilderness

John Thompson (poet)

Elizabeth Thornton

Miriam Toews

Morley Torgov (born 1927)

Catharine Parr Traill (nee Strickland) (1802-1899), Life in the Backwoods of Canada

Rhea Tregebov

Michel Tremblay (born 1942)

Élise Turcotte

Michael Turner

Michael Twist (born 1972), author, Highs & Lows

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Marie Uguay (1955-1981), francophone poet from the province of Quebec.

Jane Urquhart (born 1949), novelist.

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W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face

Pierre Vallières

Edo Van Belkom

Guy Vanderhaeghe (1951- )

Aritha Van Herk (1954- ),

A. E. van Vogt (1912-2000), science fiction writer

Jean Vanier

M.G. Vassanji

Paul Vermeersch

Margaret Visser

Élisabeth Vonarburg

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Fred Wah

Bronwen Wallace

Sabrina Ward Harrison author, artist

David Watmough

Sheila Watson (1909-1998),

Alison Wearing

John Weier

Elizabeth Wellburn

Zachariah Wells (1976- ), poet, critic

Dawud Wharnsby Ali (1972- ), poet, songwriter

Thomas Wharton

Rudy Wiebe (1934- ), novelist

Ethel Wilson (1888-1980), Swamp Angel, Hettie Dorval, "The Window"

Sheri-D Wilson

Rob Winger

Michael Winter

Adele Wiseman (1928-1992), novelist and poet

George Woodcock (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist, author of Anarchism

Marnie Woodrow

Lance Woolaver

Eric Wright (1929- ), mystery writer

L.R. Wright

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Scott Young (1918- ), novelist

Terence Young (1953- ), poet/fiction writer

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