List of Canadian writers
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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 removed
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- 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
[edit] B
- Ken Babstock
- R. Scott Bakker
- Himani Bannerji
- Bruce Barber
- 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), sailor, storyteller and nomad, author of adventure travel books about Indian and the Amazon
- 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- ) Category:Formalist poets
- 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- )
[edit] C
- 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
[edit] D
- 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- )
[edit] E
- 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
[edit] F
- 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
[edit] G
- 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
[edit] H
- 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- )
- Marjorie Harris
- Jill Hartman
- Kristen den Hartog
- Elisabeth Harvor
- 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
[edit] I
- Michael Ignatieff
- Susan Ioannou (1944- )
- Adel Iskandar (1977- ) media critic
[edit] J
- 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
[edit] K
- 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
- Raymond Knister
- Joy Kogawa, Obasan
- Gordon Korman
- Myrna Kostash
- Shane Koyczan
- Henry Kriesel
- John Krizanc
- Robert Kroetsch (1927- )
[edit] L
- 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")
[edit] M
- 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
- Bernice Morgan
- Dwayne Morgan
- Donna Morrissey
- Kim Morrissey
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses, Aboriginal poet and playwright
- Tara Moss (born 1973) - wrote Fetish
- Erin Moure
- Farley Mowat, (born 1921) Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
- 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
[edit] N
- Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), French-Canadian poet
- John Newlove
- bpNichol (1944-1988), poet
- Hal Niedzviecki
- Henri Nouwen
- Alden Nowlan (1933-1983)
[edit] O
- Sheldon Oberman
- Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ) wrote The English Patient (1993)
- Kenneth Oppel
- Stephen Osborne
[edit] P
- 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
[edit] Q
- Darlene Quaife
- Andy Quan (born 1969) Author of Calendar Boy, Slant and Six Positions
- Paul Quarrington (born 1953)
[edit] R
- 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
[edit] S
- Michelle Sagara West, fantasy author
- Rick Salutin (born 1942), political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul, (born 1947) businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)
- Andreas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- 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)
- Maggie Siggins
- Makeda Silvera
- Colin Simpson
- Jaspreet Singh
- Marsha Skrypuch
- Josef Skvorecky (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia, professor of English in Canada since 1969, but still writing his fiction in Czech), novelist, essayist, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984 Governor General's Award)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), sailor and author
- 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)
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Robert Sward
- George Swede
- Alastair Sweeny
- Scott Symons
- Guy Sylvestre journalist, author, critic
[edit] T
- 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
[edit] U
- Marie Uguay (1955-1981), francophone poet from the province of Quebec.
- Jane Urquhart (born 1949), novelist.
[edit] V
- 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
[edit] W
- 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
[edit] Y
- Scott Young (1918- ), novelist
- Terence Young (1953- ), poet/fiction writer
