list of Canadian writers
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This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
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| scope="row" | Irving Abella
| 1940 | 2022 | historian |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Jordan Abel
| | | poet, novelist | Empty Spaces, The Place of Scraps |
| scope="row" | Mark Abley
| 1955 | | poet, journalist | Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Marianne Ackerman
| 1952 | | playwright, novelist, journalist | |
| scope="row" | Janice Acoose
| 1954 | 2020 | journalist | Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak |
| scope="row" | Milton Acorn
| 1923 | 1986 | poet | The Island Means Minago |
| scope="row" | José Acquelin
| 1956 | | poet | Anarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable |
| scope="row" | Ken Adachi
| 1929 | 1989 | historian, critic | The Enemy That Never Was |
| scope="row" | Barry D. Adam
| 1952 | | sociologist | |
| scope="row" | Evan Adams
| 1966 | | dramatist | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River |
| scope="row" | Ian Adams
| 1937 | 2021 | novelist, non-fiction | Agent of Influence |
| scope="row" | Mary Electa Adams
| 1823 | 1898 | poet | From Distant Shores |
| scope="row" | Gil Adamson
| 1961 | | novelist, short stories, poet | The Outlander |
| scope="row" | Caroline Adderson
| 1963 | | novelist, short stories | Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice |
| scope="row" | Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
| | | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake |
| scope="row" | Marie-Célie Agnant
| 1953 | | poet, novelist | Le Silence comme le sang |
| scope="row" | Freda Ahenakew
| 1932 | 2011 | linguist, children's literature | |
| scope="row" | Jean Marc Ah-Sen
| | | novelist, short stories | Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| scope="row" | Kate Aitken
| 1891 | 1971 | journalist, cooking enthusiast | Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book |
| scope="row" | Kelley Aitken
| 1954 | | short stories | Love in a Warm Climate |
| scope="row" | Will Aitken
| 1949 | | novelist, journalist | Terre Haute, Realia |
| scope="row" | Donald Akenson
| 1941 | | novelist, historian | |
| scope="row" | Don Aker
| 1955 | | novelist, educator | Of Things Not Seen, The First Stone |
| scope="row" | Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
| 1965 | | poet | My Heart is a Stray Bullet |
| scope="row" | Omar El Akkad
| 1982 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Linda Aksomitis
| 1954 | | children's literature |
| scope="row" | Kamal Al-Solaylee
| 1964 | | journalist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes |
| scope="row" | Donald Alarie
| 1945 | | poet | Jérôme et les mots |
| scope="row" | Robert Arthur Alexie
| 1957 | 2014 | novelist | Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian |
| scope="row" | André Alexis
| 1957 | | novelist, journalist, short stories | Childhood, Asylum, Pastoral |
| scope="row" | Edna Alford
| 1947 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
| 1985 | | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy |
| scope="row" | Nada Alic
| 1986 | | short stories | Bad Thoughts |
| scope="row" | Sandra Alland
| 1973 | | poet, journalist | |
| scope="row" | Donna Allard
| 1956 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) | 1941 | 2023 | romantic novels, expert on child abuse | |
| scope="row" | Grant Allen
| 1848 | 1899 | science writer, novelist |
| scope="row" | Harper Allen
| | | romantic fiction | |
| scope="row" | Lillian Allen
| 1951 | | poet | Rhythm an' Hardtimes |
| scope="row" | Ralph Allen
| 1913 | 1966 | novelist, journalist | Peace River Country |
| scope="row" | Robert Thomas Allen
| 1911 | 1990 | humorist, children's literature | The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life |
| scope="row" | Tom Allen
| 1964 | | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Paul Almond
| 1931 | 2015 | novelist, screenwriter | |
| scope="row" | Anne-Marie Alonzo
| 1951 | 2005 | poet | Bleus de mine |
| scope="row" | Lisa Alward
| 1962 | | short stories | Cocktail |
| scope="row" | George Amabile
| 1936 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | William Lacey Amy
| 1877 | 1962 | writer | 'Blue Pete' series |
| scope="row" | Anahareo (Gertrude Moltke Bernard)
| 1906 | 1986 | autobiographer | Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl |
| scope="row" | Marguerite Andersen
| 1924 | 2022 | poet | Courts métrages et instantanés |
| scope="row" | Debra Anderson
| | | novelist, playwright | Code White |
| scope="row" | Doris Anderson
| 1921 | 2007 | journalist | The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter |
| scope="row" | Enza Anderson
| 1964 | | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Gordon Stewart Anderson
| 1958 | 1991 | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
| scope="row" | Hugh Anderson
| 1890 | 1965 | playwright |
| scope="row" | Patrick Anderson
| 1915 | 1979 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Rod Anderson
| 1935 | | poet, accounting texts | |
| scope="row" | Trevor Anderson
| 1972 | | screenwriter | |
| scope="row" | Gail Anderson-Dargatz
| 1963 | | novelist | The Cure for Death by Lightning |
| scope="row" | Maryse Andraos
| 1988 | | novelist | Sans refuge |
| scope="row" | Michael Andre
| 1946 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | François-Réal Angers
| 1812 | 1860 | legal texts | Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada |
| scope="row" | Vincent Anioke
| | | short stories | Perfect Little Angels |
| scope="row" | Trey Anthony
| 1974 | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Salvatore Antonio
| 1976 | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Marianne Apostolides
| | | novelist, memoirist | Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure |
| scope="row" | Lisa Appignanesi
| 1946 | | novelist, biographer | Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir |
| scope="row" | Emmanuel Aquin
| 1968 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Hubert Aquin
| 1929 | 1977 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Nelly Arcan
| 1973 | 2009 | novelist | Putain |
| scope="row" | Gilles Archambault
| 1933 | | novelist | L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions |
| scope="row" | Bert Archer
| 1968 | | journalist, essayist | The End of Gay |
| scope="row" | Richard Arès
| 1910 | 1989 | | |
| scope="row" | Faith Arkorful
| | | poet | The Seventh Town of Ghosts |
| scope="row" | Tammy Armstrong
| 1974 | | novelist, poet | Bogman's Music |
| scope="row" | Jeannette Armstrong
| 1948 | | novelist, poet | Slash |
| scope="row" | Kelley Armstrong
| 1968 | | horror fiction |
| scope="row" | Rebecca Agatha Armour
| 1845 | 1891 | novelist, local historian | Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton |
| scope="row" | David Arnason
| 1940 | | poet, novelist, historian | The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg |
| scope="row" | Daniel Arnold
| | | playwright, screenwriter | Lawrence & Holloman, Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience |
| scope="row" | Joanne Arnott
| 1960 | | poet, children's literature | Wiles of Girlhood |
| scope="row" | Lawrence Aronovitch
| 1974 | | playwright | |
| scope="row" | Nina Arsenault
| 1974 | | | |
| scope="row" | Ryad Assani-Razaki
| 1981 | | novels, short stories | Deux cercles, La main d'Iman |
| scope="row" | Bernard Assiniwi
| 1935 | 2000 | novelist, essayist, journalist | La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde |
| scope="row" | Damien Atkins
| 1975 | | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project |
| scope="row" | Diana Atkinson
| 1964 | | novelist | Highways and Dancehalls |
| scope="row" | Margaret Atwood
| 1939 | | novelist, poet, critic |
| scope="row" | Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé
| 1814 | 1841 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
| 1786 | 1871 | novelist, memoirist | |
| scope="row" | Aude (Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot)
| 1947 | 2012 | novelist, short stories | Cet imperceptible mouvement |
| scope="row" | Jean-Paul Audet
| 1918 | 1993 | theologian | |
| scope="row" | Noël Audet
| 1938 | 2005 | poet, novelist | Ah, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier |
| scope="row" | Larry Audlaluk
| 1953 | | memoirist | What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile |
| scope="row" | Ashley Audrain
| 1982 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Emily Austin
| | | novelist, poet | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space |
| scope="row" | Jonathan Auxier
| 1981 | | young adult literature | The Night Gardener |
| scope="row" | François Avard
| 1968 | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Susan Avingaq
| 1942 | | screenwriter, children's literature | Before Tomorrow, Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil |
| scope="row" | Margaret Avison
| 1918 | 2007 | poet | The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot |
| scope="row" | Mona Awad
| 1978 | | novelist, short stories | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl |
| scope="row" | Edem Awumey
| 1975 | | novelist | Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales |
| scope="row" | Makram Ayache
| 1990 | | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer |
| scope="row" | Malcolm Azania
| 1969 | | science fiction |
| scope="row" | Caroline Azar
| | | playwright | The Surreal Detective |
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| scope="row" | Todd Babiak
| | | novelist | The Garneau Block |
| scope="row" | Ken Babstock
| 1970 | | poet | Mean, Airstream Land Yacht |
| scope="row" | Mette Bach
| | | novelist, screenwriter | |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Bachinsky
| 1976 | | poet | |
| Aaron Badgley
|1964 | |non-fiction, biographer |Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label |
| scope="row" | Britta Badour
| | | poet | Wires That Sputter |
| scope="row" | Bruce Bagemihl
| 1962 | | science | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity |
| scope="row" | Valérie Bah
| | | novelist, short stories | Subterrane, The Rage Letters |
| scope="row" | Samantha M. Bailey
| | | novelist | Woman on the Edge, Watch Out for Her |
| scope="row" | Pierre Baillargeon
| 1916 | 1967 | novelist | Le scandale est nécessaire |
| scope="row" | Martha Baillie
| 1960 | | novelist | The Incident Report |
| scope="row" | Irene Baird
| 1901 | 1981 | novelist, poetry, journalist | Waste Heritage |
| scope="row" | Jacqueline Baker
| 1967 | | novelist, short stories | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours |
| scope="row" | R. Scott Bakker
| 1967 | | fantasy |
| scope="row" | Sharon Bala
| 1979 | | novelist, short stories | The Boat People |
| scope="row" | Shauna Singh Baldwin
| 1962 | | novelist | What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw |
| scope="row" | John Ballem
| 1925 | 2010 | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Winifred Bambrick
| 1892 | 1969 | novelist | Continental Revue |
| scope="row" | Catherine Banks
| c.1960 | | playwright | Bone Cage |
| scope="row" | Himani Bannerji
| 1942 | | poet, academic | Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism |
| scope="row" | Kaushalya Bannerji
| | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Gary Bannerman
| 1947 | 2011 | non-fiction | Squandering Billions |
| scope="row" | Nick Bantock
| 1949 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Simina Banu
| | | poet | Pop, I Will Get Up Off Of |
| scope="row" | Marius Barbeau
| 1883 | 1969 | academic, folklorist | |
| scope="row" | Raymond Barbeau
| 1930 | 1992 | essayist, literary critic | |
| scope="row" | Victor Barbeau
| 1896 | 1994 | | |
| scope="row" | Bruce Barber
| 1950 | | art critic | Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State |
| scope="row" | Joan Barfoot
| 1946 | | novelist | Dancing in the Dark, Luck |
| scope="row" | Keith Barker
| | | playwright | The Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here |
| scope="row" | Leslie Gordon Barnard
| 1890 | 1961 | short stories, fiction | |
| scope="row" | Robert Barr
| 1849 | 1912 | novelist, short stories, humorist | The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
| scope="row" | Laurent Barré
| 1886 | 1964 | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Joelle Barron
| | | poet | Ritual Lights |
| scope="row" | James Bartleman
| 1939 | 2023 | memoirist, young adult literature | Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow |
| scope="row" | John Barton
| 1957 | | poet | Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis |
| scope="row" | Gary Barwin
| 1964 | | novelist, children's literature, poet | Seeing Stars |
| scope="row" | Earl W. Bascom
| 1906 | 1995 | cowboy historian | The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding |
| scope="row" | Rodrigo Bascunan
| 1976 | | non-fiction | Enter The Babylon System |
| scope="row" | Jean Basile
| 1932 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
| scope="row" | Michel Basilières
| 1960 | | novelist | Black Bird |
| scope="row" | Gurjinder Basran
| 1972 | | novelist | Everything Was Good-bye |
| Karen Bass
|1962 | |young adult fiction |Graffiti Knight |
| scope="row" | Frédéric Bastien
| 1972 | | historian, journalist | La Bataille de Londres |
| scope="row" | Arjun Basu
| | | novelist, short stories | Squishy, Waiting for the Man |
| scope="row" | Andrew Battershill
| | | novelist | Pillow |
| scope="row" | Claire Battershill
| | | short stories | Circus |
| scope="row" | Bill Bauer
| 1932 | 2010 | poet | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
| scope="row" | Nancy Bauer
| 1934 | | arts journalist | Flora, Write This Down |
| scope="row" | Jeremy Bates
| 1978 | | novelist (suspense/horror) | Suicide Forest |
| scope="row" | Eli Baxter
| 1954 | | memoirist | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth |
| scope="row" | Kevin Bazzana
| 1963 | | music historian | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould |
| scope="row" | Tara Beagan
| 1975 | | playwright | Thy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace |
| scope="row" | Yves Beauchemin
| 1941 | | novelist | Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou |
| scope="row" | Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
| 1945 | 2025 | novelist, playwright | |
| scope="row" | Doug Beardsley
| 1941 | | poet | Dancing Star |
| scope="row" | Jeann Beattie
| 1922 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Blaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps |
| scope="row" | Deni Ellis Béchard
| 1974 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Peter Behrens
| 1954 | | novelist, screenwriter, short-stories |
| scope="row" | Henry Beissel
| 1929 | 2025 | non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator | Under Coyote's Eye |
| scope="row" | Jennifer Bélanger
| 1991 | | novelist | Menthol |
| scope="row" | Billy-Ray Belcourt
| | | poet, memoirist | This Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body |
| scope="row" | Ken Belford
| 1946 | 2020 | poet | Pathways into the Mountains |
| scope="row" | Donald Bell
| 1937 | 2003 | journalist, humorist | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
| scope="row" | William E. Bell
| 1945 | 2016 | children's literature |
| scope="row" | Winthrop Pickard Bell
| 1884 | 1965 | historian | The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia |
| scope="row" | Lesley Belleau
| | | poet | Indianland |
| scope="row" | Martin Bellemare
| | | playwright | Le chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral |
| scope="row" | Paul Bellini
| 1959 | | screenwriter, comedy | |
| scope="row" | John Bemrose
| 1947 | | journalist, novelist, playwright, poet | The Island Walkers |
| scope="row" | Gwen Benaway
| | | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage |
| scope="row" | Djemila Benhabib
| 1972 | | journalist, non-fiction | Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes |
| scope="row" | Nigel Bennett
| 1949 | | fantasy novelist | Keeper of the King, His Father's Son |
| scope="row" | Roxanna Bennett
| | | poet | Unmeaningable |
| scope="row" | David Bergen
| 1957 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | S. Bear Bergman
| 1974 | | playwright, poet | |
| scope="row" | David Berman
| 1962 | | non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Christophe Bernard
| 1982 | | novelist | La bête creuse |
| scope="row" | Jovette Bernier
| 1900 | 1981 | journalist, novelist, poet | Non Monsieur |
| scope="row" | Sarah Bernstein
| 1987 | | novelist | Study for Obedience |
| scope="row" | Kris Bertin
| | | short stories | Bad Things Happen |
| scope="row" | Pierre Berton
| 1920 | 2004 | historian, journalist, memoirist |
| scope="row" | Dennison Berwick
| 1956 | | adventure travel | Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges |
| scope="row" | Gérard Bessette
| 1920 | 2005 | novelist | Le libraire, Le Cycle |
| scope="row" | H. S. Bhabra
| 1955 | 2000 | novelist | The Adversary, Bad Money |
| scope="row" | Navtej Bharati
| | | poet, publisher Third Eye Press | Leela |
| scope="row" | Shashi Bhat
| | | novelist, short stories | The Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth |
| scope="row" | Dave Bidini
| 1963 | | journalist, non-fiction, songwriter | Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey |
| scope="row" | Anthony Bidulka
| 1962 | | mysteries | Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu |
| scope="row" | Nicolas Billon
| 1978 | | playwright, screenwriter | The Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher |
| scope="row" | Pierre Billon
| 1937 | | novelist, screenwriter | |
| scope="row" | Brandi Bird
| | | poet | The All + Flesh |
| scope="row" | Will R. Bird
| 1891 | 1984 | novelist, non-fiction | Here Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen |
| scope="row" | Sandra Birdsell
| 1942 | | novelist, short stories | The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf |
| scope="row" | Earle Birney
| 1904 | 1995 | poet, novelist, playwright, short stories | David and Other Poems, Turvey |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Biron
| 1990 | | novelist | Jardin radio |
| scope="row" | Carol Bishop-Gwyn
| | | biographer, arts journalist | The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca |
| scope="row" | Bill Bissett
| 1939 | | experimental poet | nobody owns th earth |
| scope="row" | Lise Bissonnette
| 1945 | | novelist, journalist | Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus |
| scope="row" | Neil Bissoondath
| 1955 | | novelist | A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions |
| scope="row" | Persimmon Blackbridge
| 1951 | | non-fiction, novelist | Prozac Highway |
| scope="row" | George G. Blackburn
| 1917 | 2006 | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Marthe Blackburn
| 1916 | 1991 | screenwriter, dramatist | A Scream from Silence, Beyond Forty, Le retour de l’âge |
| scope="row" | Peggy Blair
| | | non-fiction, novelist | Lament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera |
| scope="row" | Marie-Claire Blais
| 1939 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet |
| scope="row" | Clark Blaise
| 1940 | | novelist, short stories, memoirist | Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories |
| scope="row" | Cassandra Blanchard
| | | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes |
| scope="row" | Robin Blaser
| 1925 | 2009 | essayist, poet | |
| scope="row" | Christie Blatchford
| 1951 | 2020 | journalist, writer and broadcaster | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army |
| scope="row" | Lance Blomgren
| 1970 | | short stories, essays |
| scope="row" | Patricia Blondal
| 1926 | 1959 | fiction, poet | A Candle to Light the Sun |
| scope="row" | Lise Blouin
| 1944 | | novelist | L'Ors des fous |
| scope="row" | Michael Blouin
| 1960 | | novelist, poet | Chase and Haven, Wore Down Trust |
| scope="row" | Martha Blum
| 1913 | 2007 | historical fiction | The Walnut Tree, The Apothecary |
| scope="row" | Giles Blunt
| 1952 | | mysteries, screenwriter | Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season |
| scope="row" | Ali Blythe
| | | poet | Twoism |
| scope="row" | Selina Boan
| | | poet | Undoing Hours |
| scope="row" | Adam Bock
| 1961 | | playwright | The Receptionist, The Drunken City |
| scope="row" | Dennis Bock
| 1964 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Maxime Raymond Bock
| 1981 | | novelist, short stories | Atavismes, Les noyades secondaires |
| scope="row" | Michel Bock
| 1971 | | historian, non-fiction | Quand la nation débordait les frontières |
| scope="row" | Andrew Boden
| | | novelist, short stories | When We Were Ashes, The Secret History of My Hometown |
| scope="row" | Fred Bodsworth
| 1918 | 2012 | journalist, naturalist |
| scope="row" | Alice Boissonneau
| 1918 | 2007 | novelist, short stories, poetry, memoirs | Eileen McCullough, There Will Be Gardens |
| scope="row" | Christian Bök
| 1966 | | poet | Eunoia |
| scope="row" | Stephanie Bolster
| 1969 | | poet | White Stone: The Alice Poems |
| scope="row" | Carol Bolt
| 1941 | 2000 | playwright | Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists |
| scope="row" | Kenneth Bonert
| 1972 | | novelist, short stories | The Lion Seeker |
| scope="row" | Shane Book
| | | poet | Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic |
| scope="row" | Walter Borden
| 1942 | | playwright, poet | |
| scope="row" | Kathryn Borel
| 1979 | | memoirist | Corked |
| scope="row" | Roo Borson
| 1952 | | poet | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida |
| scope="row" | Monique Bosco
| 1927 | 2007 | journalist, novelist, poet, short stories | La femme de Loth |
| scope="row" | Gérard Bouchard
| 1943 | | non-fiction, novelist | Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde |
| scope="row" | Michel Marc Bouchard
| 1958 | | playwright | Lilies, The Orphan Muses |
| scope="row" | Paul Bouchard
| 1908 | 1997 | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Eddy Boudel Tan
| | | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide |
| scope="row" | Marsha Boulton
| 1952 | | humorist, journalist | Letters from the Country |
| scope="row" | Hédi Bouraoui
| 1932 | | poet, novelist | Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes |
| scope="row" | Pierre Bourgault
| 1934 | 2003 | essayist, journalist | |
| scope="row" | Arthur Bourinot
| 1893 | 1969 | poet | Under the Sun |
| scope="row" | Pan Bouyoucas
| 1946 | | novelist, playwright, poet | The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea |
| scope="row" | Gail Bowen
| 1942 | | novelist, playwright |Joanne Kilbourn series |
| scope="row" | George Bowering
| 1935 | | biographer, novelist, poet | The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water |
| scope="row" | Marilyn Bowering
| 1949 | | poet, novelist, playwright | Visible Worlds, Autobiography |
| scope="row" | Cedar Bowers
| | | novelist, short stories | Astra |
| scope="row" | Bonnie Bowman
| | | novelist | Skin |
| scope="row" | Randy Boyagoda
| 1976 | | novelist, non-fiction | Governor of the Northern Province |
| scope="row" | David Boyd
| 1951 | | children's literature | Bottom Drawer |
| scope="row" | George Boyd
| 1952 | 2020 | playwright, screenwriter | Consecrated Ground |
| scope="row" | Joseph Boyden
| 1966 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Frances Boyle
| | | poet, short stories | Seeking Shade |
| scope="row" | Harry J. Boyle
| 1915 | 2005 | humorist, novelist | Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish |
| scope="row" | D. M. Bradford
| | | poet | Dream of No One But Myself |
| scope="row" | Karleen Bradford
| 1936 | | children's literature | There Will Be Wolves |
| scope="row" | Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
| 1963 | 2008 | essayist, novelist, poet | |
| scope="row" | Max Braithwaite
| 1911 | 1995 | novelist, non-fiction | The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car |
| scope="row" | Shannon Bramer
| 1973 | | poet | The Refrigerator Memory |
| scope="row" | Alan Bradley
| 1938 | | mystery | Flavia de Luce series |
| scope="row" | Dionne Brand
| 1953 | | essayist, novelist, poet | What We All Long For, Land to Light On |
| scope="row" | Di Brandt
| 1952 | | poet, literary critic | Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care |
| scope="row" | Beth Brant
| 1941 | 2015 | | |
| scope="row" | André Brassard
| 1946 | 2022 | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Marie Brassard
| | | playwright | |
| scope="row" | Jacques Brault
| 1933 | 2022 | poet, translator | Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin |
| scope="row" | Lois Braun
| 1949 | | short stories | A Stone Watermelon |
| scope="row" | Morwyn Brebner
| | | playwright, television writer | Music for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope, Rookie Blue |
| scope="row" | Brian Brett
| 1950 | 2024 | novelist, memoirist, poet | Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden |
| scope="row" | Krista Bridge
| | | novelist, short stories | The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls |
| scope="row" | Robert Bringhurst
| 1946 | | poet, author, typographer | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major |
| scope="row" | Barry Broadfoot
| 1926 | 2003 | historian | Six War Years, The Immigrant Years |
| scope="row" | Hélène Brodeur
| 1923 | 2010 | historical fiction | Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario |
| scope="row" | Eve Brodlique
| 1867 | 1949 | author, journalist | A Training School for Lovers |
| scope="row" | David Bromige
| 1933 | 2009 | poet | My Poetry |
| scope="row" | Frances Brooke
| 1724 | 1789 | novelist, essayist |
| scope="row" | Bertram Brooker
| 1888 | 1955 | novelist, artist |
| scope="row" | Carellin Brooks
| | | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach |
| scope="row" | Nicole Brossard
| 1943 | | novelist, poet | Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse |
| scope="row" | Chrystine Brouillet
| 1958 | | novelist, children's literature | |
| scope="row" | Sigmund Brouwer
| 1959 | | children's literature | Watch Out for Joel! |
| scope="row" | Ian Brown
| 1954 | | journalist | Man Overboard, The Boy in the Moon |
| scope="row" | Loranne Brown
| 1955 | | novelist, short stories | The Handless Maiden |
| scope="row" | William J. Bruce III
| 1980 | | author | Penholder, Introduction for 150th Anniversary Edition of Demons |
| scope="row" | Charles Tory Bruce
| 1906 | 1971 | poet, novelist, journalist | The Mulgrave Road |
| scope="row" | Julie Bruck
| 1957 | | poet | The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch |
| scope="row" | Tyler Brûlé
| 1968 | | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Gaétan Brulotte
| 1945 | | academic, novelist, playwright, short stories | |
| scope="row" | Nick Brune
| 1952 | | historian | Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture |
| scope="row" | Carol Bruneau
| 1956 | | novelist | Purple for Sky |
| scope="row" | Louis-Ovide Brunet
| 1826 | 1876 | botany | |
| scope="row" | Michel Brunet
| 1917 | 1985 | historian | Les Canadiens après la conquête |
| scope="row" | Cathy Marie Buchanan
| 1963 | | novelist | The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls |
| scope="row" | Ernest Buckler
| 1908 | 1984 | novelist | The Mountain and the Valley |
| scope="row" | Margaret Buffie
| 1945 | | children's literature | Who Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher |
| scope="row" | Gilbert Buote
| 1833 | 1904 | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Kayt Burgess
| | | novelist | Heidegger Stairwell |
| scope="row" | Tony Burgess
| 1959 | | novelist, screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Nathan Burgoine
| | | novelist, short stories | Light |
| scope="row" | Ronnie Burkett
| 1957 | | playwright | Tinka's New Dress |
| scope="row" | Mabel Burkholder
| 1881 | 1973 | historian | Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories |
| scope="row" | Bonnie Burnard
| 1945 | 2017 | novelist | A Good House |
| scope="row" | Murdoch Burnett
| 1953 | 2015 | poet | Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans |
| scope="row" | Richard Burnett
| | | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Lawrence J. Burpee
| 1873 | 1946 | historian | The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History |
| scope="row" | Mick Burrs
| 1940 | 2021 | poet | Variations on the Birth of Jacob |
| scope="row" | Frank Christopher Busch
| 1978 | | novelist | Grey Eyes |
| scope="row" | Catherine Bush
| 1961 | | novelist | Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement |
| scope="row" | Arthur de Bussières
| 1877 | 1913 | poet | Les Bengalis |
| scope="row" | Sharon Butala
| 1940 | | novelist | The Perfection of the Morning |
| scope="row" | Alec Butler
| 1959 | | playwright | Black Friday |
| scope="row" | Michelle Butler Hallett
| 1971 | | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | This Marlowe, Constant Nobody |
| scope="row" | Jake Byrne
| | | poet | Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin, DADDY |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Charmaine Cadeau
| | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Heather Cadsby
| | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Cody Caetano
| | | memoirist | Half-Bads in White Regalia |
| scope="row" | Frank Oliver Call
| 1878 | 1956 | poet, travel | Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth |
| scope="row" | Barry Callaghan
| 1937 | | novelist, journalist | Barrelhouse Kings |
| scope="row" | Morley Callaghan
| 1903 | 1990 | novelist, short stories | A Fine and Private Place |
| scope="row" | Anne Cameron
| 1938 | 2022 | novelist, poet, short stories | Daughters of Copper Woman |
| scope="row" | Elspeth Cameron
| 1943 | | biographer | No Previous Experience |
| scope="row" | George Frederick Cameron
| 1854 | 1885 | poet, lawyer, journalist | Leo, the Royal Cadet (operetta) |
| scope="row" | Silver Donald Cameron
| 1937 | 2020 | non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist | Sailing Away From Winter |
| scope="row" | Curtis Campbell
| | | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay |
| scope="row" | Grace Campbell
| 1895 | 1963 | novelist | Thorn-apple Tree |
| scope="row" | Morgan Campbell
| 1976 | | sportswriter, memoirist | My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us |
| scope="row" | Nicola I. Campbell
| | | poetry, children's literature, memoir | Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe |
| scope="row" | Bridget Canning
| | | novelist | The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes |
| scope="row" | Natalee Caple
| 1970 | | novelist | The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World |
| scope="row" | Pat Capponi
| 1949 | 2020 | memoirist, mystery novelist | Upstairs in the Crazy House |
| scope="row" | Cliff Cardinal
| | | playwright | The Land Acknowledgement |
| scope="row" | Opal Carew
| 1956 | | romantic novelist | His To Possess |
| scope="row" | Dave Carley
| 1953 | | playwright | Writing With Our Feet |
| scope="row" | Louis Carmain
| 1983 | | novelist | Guano |
| scope="row" | Bliss Carman
| 1861 | 1929 | poet | Low Tide on Grand Pré |
| scope="row" | Jean-François Caron
| 1978 | | poet, novelist | De bois debout |
| scope="row" | Louis Caron
| 1942 | | novelist, television | L'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume |
| scope="row" | David Carpenter
| 1941 | | novelist, poet, essayist | A Hunter's Confession |
| scope="row" | Charlene Carr
| | | novelist | Hold My Girl, We Rip the World Apart |
| scope="row" | Emily Carr
| 1871 | 1945 | novelist, short stories | Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands |
| scope="row" | Roch Carrier
| 1937 | | novelist, short stories | La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey |
| scope="row" | Anne Carson
| 1950 | | poet |
| scope="row" | Anne Laurel Carter
| 1953 | | children's fiction |
| scope="row" | Allan Casey
| | | non-fiction | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada |
| scope="row" | Kate Cayley
| | | novelist, dramatist, poet | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova |
| scope="row" | Denys Chabot
| 1945 | 2025 | novelist, historian | L'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire |
| scope="row" | Sébastien Chabot
| 1976 | | novelist | Noir métal |
| scope="row" | Éric Chacour
| 1983 | | novelist | Ce que je sais de toi |
| scope="row" | Perry Chafe
| 1969 | | television writer, novelist | Republic of Doyle, Closer by Sea |
| scope="row" | Robert Chafe
| 1971 | | playwright | Afterimage, Tempting Providence |
| scope="row" | Soufiane Chakkouche
| 1977 | | novelist | Zahra |
| scope="row" | Francis Chalifour
| 1977 | | creative non-fiction | After |
| scope="row" | Gillian Chan
| 1954 | | children's literature | Glory Days and Other Stories |
| scope="row" | Robert Charbonneau
| 1911 | 1967 | novelist | Ils posséderont la terre, Fontile |
| scope="row" | David Chariandy
| 1969 | | novelist | Soucouyant, Brother |
| scope="row" | Lyne Charlebois
| | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
| 1682 | 1761 | historian | Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France |
| scope="row" | Normand Chaurette
| 1954 | 2022 | playwright | Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier |
| scope="row" | Évelyne de la Chenelière
| 1975 | | playwright, novelist | Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar |
| scope="row" | Herménégilde Chiasson
| 1946 | | poet, playwright | Conversations |
| scope="row" | Philip Child
| 1898 | 1978 | novelist | Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time |
| scope="row" | Anne Chislett
| 1942 | | playwright | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box |
| scope="row" | Ann Y. K. Choi
| | | author |
| scope="row" | Ins Choi
| 1974 | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Gabriel Cholette
| | | memoirist | Carnets de l'underground |
| scope="row" | Corinna Chong
| | | novelist, short stories | Bad Land |
| scope="row" | Denise Chong
| 1953 | | memoirist |
| scope="row" | Kevin Chong
| 1975 | | novelist, memoirist | My Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity |
| scope="row" | Wayson Choy
| 1939 | 2019 | novelist, memoirist |
| scope="row" | Lesley Choyce
| 1951 | | poet, novelist, non-fiction | The Republic of Nothing |
| scope="row" | Michael Christie
| | | short stories | The Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die |
| scope="row" | Jane Christmas
| 1954 | | travel, memoirist | And Then There Were Nuns |
| scope="row" | S. D. Chrostowska
| | | novelist, non-fiction, aphorist | Permission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book |
| scope="row" | Eliza Clark
| 1963 | | novelist | Bite the Stars |
| scope="row" | Greg Clark
| 1892 | 1977 | humorist | War Stories |
| scope="row" | Joan Clark
| 1934 |2023 | novelist | Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires |
| scope="row" | Austin Clarke
| 1934 | 2016 | novelist | The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack |
| scope="row" | George Elliott Clarke
| 1960 | | poet, novelist, dramatist | Whylah Falls, George and Rue, Black |
| scope="row" | Stéfanie Clermont
| 1988 | | novelist | Le jeu de la musique |
| scope="row" | David Clerson
| 1978 | | novelist | Frères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête |
| scope="row" | Mabel Clint
| 1874 | 1939 | novelist, nurse | Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister |
| scope="row" | Fabien Cloutier
| 1976 | | dramatist | Pour réussir un poulet |
| scope="row" | Lynn Coady
| 1970 | | novelist | Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven, Hellgoing |
| scope="row" | Mark Coakley
| | | true crime |
| scope="row" | Devon Code
| | | novelist, short stories | In a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| scope="row" | Lisa Codrington
| | | playwright | Cast Iron, Up the Garden Path |
| scope="row" | Fred Cogswell
| 1917 | 2004 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Leonard Cohen
| 1934 | 2016 | poet, novelist, singer-songwriter |
| scope="row" | Matt Cohen
| 1942 | 1999 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Susan G. Cole
| 1952 | | journalist | Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography |
| scope="row" | Trevor Cole
| 1960 | | novelist | The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean |
| scope="row" | Anne Coleman
| | | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Layne Coleman
| | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Victor Coleman
| 1944 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Don Coles
| 1927 | 2017 | poet | Forests of the Medieval World |
| scope="row" | Ruth Collie
| 1888 | 1936 | poet | Known as the Poem a Day Lady |
| scope="row" | John Robert Colombo
| 1936 | | poet, reference book compiler | Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References |
| scope="row" | Daria Colonna
| 1989 | | poet | Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse |
| scope="row" | Wayde Compton
| 1972 | | poet, essays, short fiction | |
| scope="row" | Bill Conall
| | | novelist, humorist | The Promised Land |
| scope="row" | Christy Ann Conlin
| | | novelist, short stories | Heave, The Memento, Watermark |
| scope="row" | Jan Conn
| 1952 | | poet, insect geneticist | South of the Tudo Bem Cafe |
| scope="row" | Karen Connelly
| 1969 | | travel, novelist, poet | Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage |
| scope="row" | Kevin Connolly
| 1962 | | poet, editor | Drift, Revolver |
| scope="row" | Ralph Connor (also known as Charles William Gordon)
| 1860 | 1937 | novelist, essayist | The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot |
| scope="row" | Darla Contois
| | | playwright | The War Being Waged |
| scope="row" | George Ramsay Cook
| 1931 | 2016 | historian | |
| scope="row" | Hugh Cook
| 1942 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Michael Cook
| 1933 | 1994 | playwright | Jacob's Wake |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Dennis Cooley
| 1944 | | poet | Irene |
| scope="row" | Beverley Cooper
| | | playwright | Thin Ice, Innocence Lost |
| scope="row" | Douglas Cooper
| 1960 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Paige Cooper
| | | short stories | Zolitude |
| scope="row" | Ann Copeland
| 1932 | | short stories | The Golden Thread |
| scope="row" | Judith Copithorne
| 1939 | 2025 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Carole Corbeil
| 1952 | 2000 | novelist, journalist | Voice-Over, In the Wings |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
| 1985 | | playwright | Scratch |
| scope="row" | Amanda Cordner
| | | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| scope="row" | David Cormican
| 1981 | | screenwriter, producer | Northern Rescue, Réveillon |
| scope="row" | Michael Cormican
| 1948 | 2023 | author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse | A Long Way From Tipperary |
| scope="row" | Thomas B. Costain
| 1885 | 1965 | historical fiction, non-fiction | Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice |
| scope="row" | Lawrence Moore Cosgrave
| 1890 | 1971 | non-fiction | Afterthoughts of Armageddon |
| scope="row" | Douglas Coupland
| 1961 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Kevin Courrier
| 1954 | 2018 | biographer, music and film critic | Randy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream |
| scope="row" | Maya Cousineau Mollen
| 1975 | | poet | Bréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen |
| scope="row" | Saros Cowasjee
| 1931 | 2019 | novelist | Goodbye to Elsa |
| scope="row" | Hugh Cowan
| 1867 | 1943 | historian | Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814 |
| scope="row" | James Alexander Cowan
| 1901 | 1978 | writer, columnist | |
| scope="row" | Daniel Allen Cox
| 1976 | | novelist | Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In |
| scope="row" | Ivan Coyote
| 1969 | | spoken-word poet, columnist | Bow Grip |
| scope="row" | Archie Crail
| 1944 | | playwright, short stories | Exile, The Bonus Deal |
| scope="row" | Isabella Valancy Crawford
| 1846 | 1887 | poet, freelance | Old Spookses' Pass |
| scope="row" | Donald Creighton
| 1902 | 1979 | historian | John A. Macdonald |
| scope="row" | Luella Creighton
| 1901 | 1996 | historical fiction, children's non-fiction | High Bright Buggy Wheels |
| scope="row" | Octave Crémazie
| 1827 | 1879 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Lesley Crewe
| 1955 | | | The Spoon Stealer |
| scope="row" | Eva Crocker
| | | short stories | Barrelling Forward |
| scope="row" | Lynn Crosbie
| 1963 | | poet, novelist | Life Is About Losing Everything |
| scope="row" | Caleigh Crow
| | | playwright | There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow |
| scope="row" | Lorna Crozier
| 1948 | | poet | Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light |
| scope="row" | Michael Crummey
| 1965 | | poet, novelist, non-fiction | Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents |
| scope="row" | Nancy Jo Cullen
| | | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary |
| scope="row" | Alan Cumyn
| 1960 | | novelist | The Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia |
| scope="row" | Peter Cureton
| 1965 | 1994 | playwright | Passages |
| scope="row" | Oisin Curran
| | | novelist | Blood Fable |
| scope="row" | Andrea Curtis
| | | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Herb Curtis
| 1949 | | novelist, humorist | The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles |
| scope="row" | Kayla Czaga
| 1989 | | poet | For Your Safety Please Hold On |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope=row | Antonio D'Alfonso
| 1953 | | poet, novelist, bilingual writer | The Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout |
| scope="row" | Michel Dallaire
| 1957 | 2017 | novelist, poet | Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne |
| scope="row" | Roméo Dallaire
| 1946 | | documentarian, memoirist, activist | Shake Hands with the Devil, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children |
| scope="row" | Anne Dandurand
| 1953 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Louis Dantin
| 1865 | 1945 | poet, critic | Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques |
| scope="row" | Jean-Paul Daoust
| 1946 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva |
| scope="row" | Peter Darbyshire
| | | novelist | Please |
| scope="row" | Jill Daum
| | | playwright | Forget About Tomorrow |
| scope="row" | Frank Davey
| 1940 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Craig Davidson
|1976 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | True Davidson
| 1901 | 1978 | poet, fiction, non-fiction | The Golden Strings |
| scope="row" | Blodwen Davies
| 1897 | 1966 | historian | A Study of Tom Thomson |
| scope="row" | Lynn Davies
| 1954 | | poet | The Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools |
| scope="row" | Robertson Davies
| 1913 | 1995 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Lauren B. Davis
| 1955 | | novelist, short stories |Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market |
| scope="row" | Amber Dawn
| | | novelist, anthologist | Sub Rosa |
| scope="row" | Caroline Dawson
| 1979 | 2024 | novelist, poet, children's literature | Là où je me terre |
| scope="row" | Nicholas Dawson
| 1982 | | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure |
| scope="row" | Frank Parker Day
| 1881 | 1950 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Claire Dé
| 1953 | | novelist, short stories | Bonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel |
| scope="row" | Alfred Duclos DeCelles
| 1843 | 1925 | journalist, librarian | The 'Patriotes' of ’37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion |
| scope="row" | Mazo de la Roche
| 1879 | 1961 | novelist | Jalna |
| scope="row" | Charles de Lint
| 1951 | | fantasy | |
| scope="row" | Elisabeth de Mariaffi
| | | short stories, poet | How to Get Along With Women |
| scope="row" | Sadiqa de Meijer
| 1977 | | short stories, poet | Leaving Howe Island |
| scope="row" | James de Mille
| 1833 | 1880 | novelist |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Marq de Villiers
| 1940 | | journalist, magazine editor, science | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource |
| scope="row" | Anthony de Sa
| | | novelist, short stories | Barnacle Love |
| scope="row" | Patrick deWitt
| 1975 | | novelist | The Sisters Brothers |
| scope="row" | Michael Delisle
| 1959 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père |
| scope="row" | Martine Delvaux
| 1968 | | novelist, non-fiction | Blanc dehors |
| scope="row" | David Demchuk
| | | playwright, novelist | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise |
| scope="row" | John DeMont
| | | journalist, non-fiction | Coal Black Heart, The Long Way Home |
| scope="row" | Sandra Dempsey
| 1956 | | | |
| scope="row" | Barry Dempster
| 1952 | | | |
| scope="row" | Dennis Denisoff
| | | novelist, poet, academic | Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories |
| scope="row" | Randall Denley
| | | journalist, novelist | The Perfect Candidate |
| scope="row" | Adebe DeRango-Adem
| | | poet | Terra Incognita, Vox Humana |
| scope="row" | Martine Desjardins
| 1957 | | novelist | Le Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium |
| scope="row" | Roxane Desjardins
| 1991 | | writer, editor | Ciseaux |
| scope="row" | Léo-Paul Desrosiers
| 1896 | 1967 | journalist, novelist | Les Engagés du Grand Portage |
| scope="row" | Henriette Dessaulles
| 1860 | 1946 | journalist, diarist | Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881 |
| scope="row" | William Deverell
| 1937 | | mysteries, screenwriter | Trial of Passion, April Fool |
| scope="row" | Alexander Dewdney
| 1941 | 2024 | computer science, philosophy | |
| scope="row" | Christopher Dewdney
| 1951 | | | |
| scope="row" | Selwyn Hanington Dewdney
| 1909 | 1979 | novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author | Wind Without Rain |
| scope="row" | Myrna Dey
| | | novelist, journalist | Extensions |
| scope="row" | Ranj Dhaliwal
| 1976 | | novelist |
| scope=row | Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
| 1949 | 2019 | poet | The Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise |
| scope="row" | David Di Giovanni
| | | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| scope="row" | Mary di Michele
| 1949 | | poet, novelist | Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love |
| scope="row" | Ann Diamond
| 1951 | | poet, novelist, short stories | A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye |
| scope="row" | Don Dickinson
| 1947 | | novelist, short stories | Blue Husbands, The Crew |
| scope="row" | Nicolas Dickner
| 1972 | | novelist, short stories | Nikolski |
| scope="row" | Cherie Dimaline
| 1975 | | novelist, short stories | The Marrow Thieves |
| scope="row" | Christopher DiRaddo
| 1974 | | novelist | The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way |
| scope="row" | Dorothy Dittrich
| | | playwright | The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher |
| scope="row" | Sean Dixon
| | | playwright | 1492, A God in Need of Help |
| scope="row" | Sandra Djwa
| 1939 | | biography, literary criticism | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page |
| scope="row" | Kildare Dobbs
| 1923 | 2013 | short stories | |
| scope="row" | Farzana Doctor
| | | novelist | Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement |
| scope="row" | Cory Doctorow
| 1971 | | science fiction | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother |
| scope="row" | Jeramy Dodds
| 1974 | | poet | Crabwise to the Hounds |
| scope="row" | M. T. Dohaney
| 1930 | | novelist, short stories | The Corrigan Women |
| scope="row" | Bob Dolman
| 1949 | | screenwriter | SCTV |
| scope="row" | Don Domanski
| 1950 | 2020 | | |
| scope="row" | Fernand Dorais
| 1928 | 2003 | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
| scope="row" | Candas Jane Dorsey
| 1952 | | science fiction | Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth |
| scope="row" | Clive Doucet
| 1946 | | |
| scope="row" | Lily Dougall
| 1858 | 1923 | author | A Question of Faith |
| scope="row" | Arthur Doughty
| 1860 | 1936 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
| scope="row" | Orville Lloyd Douglas
| 1976 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | James Doull
| 1918 | 2001 | philosopher | |
| scope="row" | Philippa Dowding
| | | children's literature | Oculum, Firefly |
| scope="row" | Glen Downey
| 1969 | | children's literature | |
| scope="row" | Brian Doyle
| 1935 | | young adult fiction | |
| scope="row" | Brian Drader
| 1960 | | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals |
| scope="row" | Stan Dragland
| 1942 | 2022 | fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays | Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys |
| scope="row" | Sylvie Drapeau
| 1962 | | novelist | Le Fleuve, La Terre |
| scope="row" | Don Druick
| 1945 | | playwright | Where Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes |
| scope="row" | William Henry Drummond
| 1854 | 1907 | poet | The Habitant |
| scope="row" | Klara du Plessis
| | | poet | Ekke |
| scope="row" | Marcel Dubé
| 1930 | 2016 | | |
| scope="row" | Peter Dubé
| | | novelist, short stories | Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky |
| scope="row" | Réjean Ducharme
| 1941 | 2017 | | |
| scope="row" | Louis Dudek
| 1918 | 2001 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Margaret Duley
| 1894 | 1968 | novelist | The Eyes of the Gull |
| scope="row" | Dawn Dumont
| | | novelist, short stories | Nobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run |
| scope="row" | Dave Duncan
| 1933 |2018 | | |
| scope="row" | Sandy Frances Duncan
| 1942 | | novels, short fiction, mysteries | Cariboo Runaway, Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island |
| scope="row" | Sara Jeannette Duncan
| 1861 | 1922 | novelist, journalist | The Imperialist |
| scope="row" | Warren Dunford
| 1963 | | novelist | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer |
| scope="row" | Nina Dunic
| | | short stories, novelist | The Clarion |
| scope="row" | Norma Dunning
| | | short stories | Annie Muktuk and Other Stories |
| scope="row" | Kristyn Dunnion
| 1969 | | novelist, short stories | Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles |
| scope="row" | Éric Dupont
| 1970 | | novelist | La Logeuse, La fiancée américaine |
| scope="row" | Douglas Durkin
| 1884 | 1967 | novelist, screenwriter | The Magpie |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Lawrence Earl
| 1915 | 2005 | novelist, journalist | Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass |
| scope="row" | Edith Maude Eaton
| 1865 | 1914 | short stories |
| scope="row" | Evelyn Eaton
| 1902 | 1983 | novelist, poet | Quietly My Captain Waits |
| scope="row" | Chris Eaton
| 1971 | | novelist, music | The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect |
| scope="row" | Winnifred Eaton
| 1875 | 1954 | novelist | A Japanese Nightingale |
| scope="row" | James Eayrs
| 1926 | 2021 | historian | In Defence of Canada |
| scope="row" | Kim Echlin
| 1955 | | novelist | The Disappeared |
| scope="row" | David Eddie
| | | novelist, humorist | Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control |
| scope="row" | Esi Edugyan
| 1978 | | novelist | The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black |
| scope=row | Caterina Edwards
| 1948 | | novelist, playwright, short story writer | The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Francesca Ekwuyasi
| | | novelist | Butter Honey Pig Bread |
| scope="row" | Rima Elkouri
| | | novelist, journalist | Manam |
| scope="row" | George Elliott
| 1923 | 1996 | short stories | The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys |
| scope="row" | Deborah Ellis
| 1960 | | non-fiction, young adult fiction |
| Sarah Ellis
| 1952 | | children's literature | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks |
| scope="row" | Louis Émond
| 1969 | | novelist | The Manuscript |
| scope="row" | Marina Endicott
| 1958 | | novelist | Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference |
| scope="row" | Howard Engel
| 1931 | 2019 | mysteries | The Suicide Murders |
| scope="row" | Marian Engel
| 1933 | 1985 | novelist | Bear |
| scope="row" | Yves Engler
| 1979 | | politics, activist | Playing Left Wing |
| scope="row" | Sharon English
| 1965 | | short stories | Zero Gravity |
| scope="row" | Karen Enns
| | | poet | That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics |
| scope="row" | Steven Erikson
| 1959 | | novelist | Malazan Book of the Fallen series |
| scope="row" | Ann Eriksson
| 1956 | | novelist | In the Hands of Anubis |
| scope="row" | Thom Ernst
| | | film critic, memoirist | The Wild Boy of Waubamik |
| scope="row" | Gloria Escomel
| 1941 | | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion |
| scope="row" | Robin Esrock
| 1974 | | travel writer | The Great Canadian Bucket List,The Great Global Bucket List |
| scope="row" | Michael Estok
| 1939 | 1989 | poet | A Plague Year Journal |
| scope="row" | Hubert Evans
| 1892 | 1986 | novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature | Mist on the River |
| scope="row" | Jon Evans
| 1973 | | novelist | Dark Places |
| scope="row" | Stanley Evans
| 1931 | | novelist | Seaweed series of crime fiction |
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|---|
| scope="row" | Emil Fackenheim
| 1916 | 2003 | historian, philosopher | |
| scope="row" | Jean Mohsen Fahmy
| 1942 | | novelist, short stories, literary criticism | L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée |
| scope="row" | Terry Fallis
| 1959 | | humorist | The Best Laid Plans |
| scope="row" | Alain Farah
| 1979 | | novelist, poet | Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne |
| scope="row" | Abla Farhoud
| 1945 | 2021 | novelist, playwright | Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince |
| scope="row" | Edmundo Farolan
| 1943 | 2023 | poet, playwright, novelist | Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Charles Fenerty
| 1821 | 1892 | poet, journalist, inventor | Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress |
| scope="row" | Linda Rui Feng
| | | novelist | Swimming Back to Trout River |
| scope="row" | Ian Ferguson
| | | playwright, humorist | Village of the Small Houses |
| scope="row" | Max Ferguson
| 1924 | 2013 | humorist | And Now... Here's Max |
| scope="row" | Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow
| 1947 | | novelist, playwright | |
| scope="row" | Will Ferguson
| 1964 | | humorist, novelist, travel writer | Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419 |
| scope="row" | Raoul Fernandes
| | | poet | Transmitter and Receiver |
| scope="row" | Paola Ferrante
| | | poet, short stories | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals |
| scope="row" | Jacques Ferron
| 1921 | 1985 | playwright | |
| scope="row" | Madeleine Ferron
| 1922 | 2010 | novelist | La fin des loups-garous |
| scope="row" | George Fetherling
| 1949 | | | |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Fielden
| 1932 | 2021 | | |
| scope="row" | Joy Fielding
| 1945 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Connie Fife
| 1961 | 2017 | poet | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World |
| scope="row" | Timothy Findley
| 1930 | 2002 | novelist, dramatist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Lois Fine
| | | playwright | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week |
| scope="row" | Larry Fineberg
| 1945 | | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve |
| scope="row" | Joe Fiorito
| 1948 | | novelist, columnist, memoirist | The Song Beneath the Ice |
| scope="row" | Sheree Fitch
| 1956 | | poet, novelist, children's fiction | Mabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Judith Fitzgerald
| 1952 | 2015 | | |
| scope="row" | Polly Fleck
| 1933 | 2019 | poet | The Chinese Execution |
| scope="row" | Anne Fleming
| 1964 | | | |
| scope="row" | May Agnes Fleming
| 1840 | 1880 | novelist | The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman |
| scope="row" | Cynthia Flood
| 1940 | | novelist, short stories | My Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy |
| scope="row" | Lisa Foad
| | | short stories, journalist | The Night Is a Mouth |
| scope="row" | Waawaate Fobister
| | | playwright | Agokwe |
| scope="row" | Jacques Folch-Ribas
| 1928 | | novelist | Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur |
| scope="row" | Naomi Fontaine
| 1987 | | novelist | Kuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni |
| scope="row" | Dennis Foon
| 1951 | | | |
| scope="row" | Charles Foran
| 1960 | | novelist | Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire |
| scope="row" | John-James Ford
| 1972 | | | |
| scope="row" | Paul Serge Forest
| | | novelist | Tout est ori |
| scope="row" | André Forget
| | | novelist | In the City of Pigs |
| scope="row" | Helen Forrester
| 1919 | 2011 | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Dominique Fortier
| 1972 | | novelist | Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer |
| scope="row" | Carley Fortune
| 1985 | | novelist | Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake |
| scope="row" | Cecil Foster
| 1954 | | | |
| scope="row" | Marion Foster
| 1924 | 1997 | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender |
| scope="row" | Martin Fournier
| 1954 | | historian, young adult literature | The Adventures of Radisson |
| scope="row" | Roger Fournier
| 1929 | 2012 | novelist, screenwriter | Le cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi |
| scope="row" | Barbara Fradkin
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Tess Fragoulis
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Brian Francis
| 1971 | | novelist | Fruit |
| scope="row" | Brad Fraser
| 1959 | | playwright |
| John Anderson Fraser
| 1866 | 1960 | | |
| scope="row" | Keath Fraser
| 1944 | | | |
| scope="row" | Raymond Fraser
| 1941 | 2018 | | Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life |
| scope="row" | Sylvia Fraser
| 1935 | 2022 | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Louis Fréchette
| 1839 | 1908 | poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist | |
| scope="row" | Pauline Fréchette
| 1889 | 1943 | poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun | |
| scope="row" | David French
| 1939 | 2010 | playwright | |
| scope="row" | Maida Parlow French
| | | novelist, artist, biographer | |
| scope="row" | Kathy Friedman
| | | short stories | All the Shining People |
| scope="row" | Patrick Friesen
| 1946 | | | |
| scope="row" | Mark Frutkin
| 1948 | | | |
| scope="row" | Northrop Frye
| 1912 | 1991 | critic |
| scope="row" | Kim Fu
| 1987 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Robert Fulford
| 1932 | 2024 | journalist | |
| Janine Fuller
| 1958 | | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
| Pik-Shuen Fung
| | | novelist | Ghost Forest |
| scope="row" | Wes Funk
| 1969 | 2015 | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Baggage |
| scope="row" | Nicola Furlong
| | | | |
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|---|
| scope="row" | Brendan Gall
| 1978 | | playwright, screenwriter | Wide Awake Hearts |
| scope="row" | Mavis Gallant
| 1922 | 2014 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
| scope="row" | Steven Galloway
| 1975 | | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| scope="row" | François-Xavier Garneau
| 1809 | 1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Hugh Garner
| 1913 | 1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
| scope="row" | Alfred Garrioch
| 1848 | 1934 | novelist | First Furrows |
| scope="row" | Elyse Gasco
| 1967 | | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? |
| scope="row" | Bill Gaston
| 1953 | | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite |
| scope="row" | C. E. Gatchalian
| 1974 | | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time |
| scope="row" | Connie Gault
| 1949 | | playwright, novelist, short stories | Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty |
| scope="row" | Daniel Gawthrop
| 1963 | | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter |
| scope="row" | Pauline Gedge
| 1945 | | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions |
| scope="row" | John Geiger
| | | non-fiction author | The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition |
| scope="row" | Karoline Georges
| 1970 | | novelist, poet | De synthèse |
| scope="row" | Shree Ghatage
| 1957 | | novelist, short story writer | Awake When All the World Is Asleep |
| scope="row" | Camilla Gibb
| 1968 | | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly |
| scope="row" | John Murray Gibbon
| 1875 | 1952 | non-fiction, novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
| scope="row" | Chantal Gibson
| | | poet | How She Read |
| scope="row" | Douglas Gibson
| 1943 | | editor, publisher, memoirist | Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others |
| scope="row" | Graeme Gibson
| 1934 | 2019 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
| scope="row" | Margaret Gibson
| 1948 | 2006 | novelist, short stories | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
| scope="row" | William Gibson
| 1948 | | science fiction |
| scope="row" | Sky Gilbert
| 1952 | | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Gill
| | | short stories, non-fiction | Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe |
| scope="row" | John Patrick Gillese
| 1926 | 1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | David Gilmour
| 1949 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | M-E Girard
| | | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up |
| scope="row" | Malcolm Gladwell
| 1963 | | journalist, sociologist |
| scope="row" | Joanna Glass
| 1936 | | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying |
| scope="row" | John Glassco
| 1909 | 1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
| scope="row" | Paul Glennon
| | | short stories, young adult literature | The Dodecahedron, Bookweird |
| scope="row" | Susan Glickman
| 1953 | | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape |
| scope="row" | Douglas Glover
| 1948 | | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N |
| scope="row" | Jacques Godbout
| 1933 | | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine |
| scope="row" | Dave Godfrey
| 1938 | 2015 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
| scope="row" | Martyn Godfrey
| 1949 | 2000 | writer, teacher, writer in residence | Ms. Teeny-Wonderful Series, Can You Teach Me To Pick My Nose? |
| scope="row" | Philip H. Godsell
| 1889 | 1961 | writer | Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company |
| scope="row" | 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) |
| scope="row" | Oliver Goldsmith
| 1794 | 1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
| scope="row" | Gabriella Goliger
| 1949 | | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped |
| scope="row" | Leona Gom
| 1946 | | novelist, mysteries, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame |
| scope="row" | Michelle Good
| | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Alison Gordon
| 1943 | 2015 | sports journalist, mysteries | The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball |
| scope="row" | Charles Gordon
| 1940 | | newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist | The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip |
| scope="row" | Phyllis Gotlieb
| 1926 | 2009 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
| scope="row" | Sondra Gotlieb
| 1936 | | newspaper columnist | True Confections |
| scope="row" | Hiromi Goto
| 1966 | | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child |
| scope="row" | John Gould
| | | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions |
| scope="row" | Nora Gould
| | | poet | I see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Katherine Govier
| 1948 | | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
| scope="row" | Lee Gowan
| 1961 | | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy |
| scope="row" | Barbara Gowdy
| 1950 | | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone |
| scope="row" | Wayne Grady
| 1948 | | novelist, memoir, science | Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café |
| scope="row" | Gwethalyn Graham
| 1913 | 1965 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Neile Graham
| 1958 | | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory |
| scope="row" | Martin Allerdale Grainger
| 1874 | 1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
| scope="row" | Marlowe Granados
| | | novelist, screenwriter | Happy Hour |
| scope="row" | Jack Granatstein
| 1939 | | historian | |
| {{Sortname|Linda|Granfield}}
|1950 | |children's literature |In Flanders Fields |
| scope="row" | E. M. Granger Bennett
| | 1988 | historical fiction | Short of the Glory |
| scope="row" | George Grant
| 1918 | 1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
| scope="row" | Hilda Kay Grant
| 1910 | 1996 | writer, artist | The Salt Box |
| scope="row" | Jessica Grant
| 1972 | | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise |
| scope="row" | Élise Gravel
| 1977 | | children's literature, graphic novels | Le Grand Antonio, La clé à molette |
| scope="row" | François Gravel
| 1951 | | novelist | Ostende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker |
| scope="row" | Charlotte Gray
| 1948 | | novelist, non-fiction |
| scope="row" | R. W. Gray
| | | short stories | Crisp, Entropic |
| scope="row" | Ethel Grayson
| 1890 | 1980 | novelist, poet | |
| Lowell Green
|1936 | |history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism |Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada! |
| scope="row" | Nick Green
| | | playwright | Body Politic |
| scope="row" | Robert Joseph Greene
| 1973 | | children's literature, romantic fiction | This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World |
| scope="row" | Ed Greenwood
| 1959 | | fantasy |
| scope="row" | Darren Greer
| 1968 | | novelist | Still Life with June, Just Beneath My Skin |
| scope="row" | James Gregor
| | | novelist | Going Dutch |
| scope="row" | Doris Gregory
| | | autobiographer | How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story |
| scope="row" | Daniel Grenier
| 1980 | | novelist, short stories | L’année la plus longue |
| scope="row" | Taras Grescoe
| | | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Grey Owl
| 1888 | 1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
| scope="row" | Francis William Grey
| 1860 | 1939 | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Curé of St. Philippe |
| scope="row" | Claude-Henri Grignon
| 1894 | 1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
| scope="row" | G. A. Grisenthwaite
| | | novelist, short stories, poet | Home Waltz |
| scope="row" | Lionel Groulx
| 1878 | 1967 | historian |
| scope="row" | Frederick Phillip Grove
| 1879 | 1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
| scope="row" | Brett Josef Grubisic
| 1963 | | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities |
| scope="row" | Katia Grubisic
| 1978 | | poet, short stories | what if red ran out |
| scope="row" | Agnès Gruda
| | | journalist, short story writer | Onze petites trahisons |
| scope="row" | Christian Guay-Poliquin
| 1982 | | novelist | Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige |
| scope="row" | Germaine Guèvremont
| 1893 | 1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
| scope="row" | Genni Gunn
| 1949 | | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless |
| scope="row" | Kristjana Gunnars
| 1948 | | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps |
| scope="row" | Stephen Guppy
| 1951 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy |
| scope="row" | David Gurr
| 1936 | | novelist, playwright | The Ring Master |
| scope="row" | Ralph Gustafson
| 1909 | 1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
| scope="row" | Don Gutteridge
| 1937 | | poet, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Guy Lawson
| 1963 | | journalist | War Dogs |
| scope="row" | Sandra Gwyn
| 1935 | 2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
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|---|
| scope="row" | Samra Habib
| | | photographer, memoirist | We Have Always Been Here |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Rawi Hage
| 1964 | | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach, Carnival |
| scope="row" | Joan Haggerty
| 1940 | | | |
| scope="row" | Medina Hahn
| | | playwright | Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience |
| scope="row" | Roderick Haig-Brown
| 1908 | 1976 | | |
| scope="row" | Ken Haigh
| 1962 | | memoirist | Under the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury |
| scope="row" | Arthur Hailey
| 1920 | 2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
| scope="row" | Susan Haley
| 1949 | | novelist | A Nest of Singing Birds, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump |
| scope="row" | Thomas Chandler Haliburton
| 1796 | 1865 | | The Clockmaker |
| scope="row" | Phil Hall
| 1953 | | poet | Killdeer |
| scope="row" | Louis Hamelin
| 1959 | | novelist, short stories, literary critic | La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx |
| scope="row" | Ian Hamilton
| 1946 | | journalist, mysteries | The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan |
| scope="row" | Jane Eaton Hamilton
| 1954 | | | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger |
| scope="row" | Lyn Hancock
| 1938 | | | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon |
| scope="row" | Angeline Hango
| 1909 | 1995 | novelist, journalist | Truthfully Yours |
| scope="row" | Catherine Hanrahan
| | | novelist | Lost Girls and Love Hotels |
| scope="row" | Kevin Hardcastle
| 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Debris |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Robert Harlow
| 1923 | | novelist | Scann |
| scope="row" | Liz Harmer
| | | novelist | The Amateurs |
| scope="row" | Jennica Harper
| | | poet, television writer | Wood, Bounce House, Jann |
| scope="row" | Alexander Harris
| 1805 | 1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
| scope="row" | Claire Harris
| 1937 | 2018 | | |
| scope="row" | Dorothy Joan Harris
| 1931 | | children's literature | |
| scope="row" | Marjorie Harris
| 1937 | | gardening | Seasons of My Garden |
| scope="row" | Michael Harris
| 1944 | | poet | Circus |
| scope="row" | Michael Harris
| 1948 | | journalist | Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall |
| scope="row" | Michael Harris
| 1980 | | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection |
| scope="row" | Keith Harrison
| 1945 | 2019 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
| scope="row" | Jill Hartman
| 1974 | | | |
| scope="row" | Diana Hartog
| 1942 | | poet, novelist | Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts |
| scope="row" | Kristen den Hartog
| 1965 | | | |
| scope="row" | Kenneth J. Harvey
| 1962 | | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco |
| scope="row" | Kim Senklip Harvey
| | | playwright | Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story |
| scope="row" | Elisabeth Harvor
| 1936 | 2024 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart |
| scope="row" | Erum Shazia Hasan
| | | novelist | We Meant Well |
| scope="row" | Liedewy Hawke
| | | translator | |
| scope="row" | Barbara Haworth-Attard
| 1953 | | | |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Hay
| 1951 | | novelist, non-fiction | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana |
| scope="row" | Elliott Hayes
| 1956 | 1994 | | |
| scope="row" | Matthew Hays
| | | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers |
| scope="row" | Steven Hayward
| | | novelist, short stories | Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke |
| scope="row" | Charles Heavysege
| 1816 | 1876 | poet | Saul |
| scope="row" | Anne Hébert
| 1916 | 2000 |novelist, poet, short stories, novellas | Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent |
| scope="row" | Maurice Hébert
| 1888 | 1960 | novelist, poet | Le Cycle de Don Juan |
| scope="row" | Steven Heighton
| 1961 | 2022 | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer |
| scope="row" | Sydney Hegele
| | | short stories | The Pump |
| scope="row" | William C. Heine
| 1919 | 1991 | novelist, newspaper editor |
| scope="row" | Matthew Heiti
| | | novelist, screenwriter, playwright | Son of the Sunshine, The City Still Breathing |
| scope="row" | Tyler Hellard
| | | novelist | Searching for Terry Punchout |
| scope="row" | Michael Helm
| 1961 | | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things |
| scope="row" | David Helwig
| 1938 | 2018 | novelist, poet | Figures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter |
| scope="row" | Maggie Helwig
| 1961 | | | |
| scope="row" | Louis Hémon
| 1880 | 1913 | novelist, journalist |
| scope="row" | Lee Henderson
| | | novelist, short stories | The Broken Record Technique, The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts |
| scope="row" | Maurice Henrie
| 1936 | 2024 | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | Le Balcon dans le ciel |
| scope="row" | Sarah Henstra
| | | novelist | Mad Miss Mimic, The Red Word |
| scope="row" | John Herbert
| 1926 | 2001 | playwright |
| scope="row" | Sarah Herbert
| 1824 | 1846 | publisher, writer, poet | The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems |
| scope="row" | Catherine Hernandez
| | | playwright, novelist |
| scope="row" | Nicholas Herring
| | | novelist | Some Hellish |
| scope="row" | Trevor Herriot
| | | naturalist | River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds |
| scope="row" | Benjamin Hertwig
| | | poet | Slow War |
| scope="row" | Sheila Heti
| 1976 | | novelist, short stories | How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor |
| scope="row" | Paul Hiebert
| 1892 | 1987 | novelist, humorist |
| scope="row" | Tomson Highway
| 1951 | | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| scope="row" | Lawrence Hill
| 1957 | | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes |
| scope="row" | Ernest Hillen
| | | journalist, memoirist | The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies |
| scope="row" | Robert Hilles
| 1951 | |poet and novelist |Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild |
| scope="row" | Jack Hodgins
| 1938 | | | |
| scope="row" | Robert Hogg
| 1942 | 2022 | poet, critic | The Connexions |
| Nadia L. Hohn
| | |children's literature |Malaika's Costume |
| scope="row" | Susan Holbrook
| | | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes |
| scope="row" | Arthur Holden
| 1959 | | playwright, television | Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob |
| scope="row" | Clive Holden
| | | poet |
| scope="row" | Claire Holden Rothman
| 1958 | | novelist, short stories | The Heart Specialist, My October |
| scope="row" | Pauline Holdstock
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Norah M. Holland
| 1876 | 1925 | poet, playwright, journalist, editor | Spun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems |
| scope="row" | Greg Hollingshead
| 1947 | | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer |
| scope="row" | Margaret Hollingsworth
| 1942 | | playwright | Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands |
| scope="row" | Michael Hollingsworth
| 1950 | | playwright | The History of the Village of the Small Huts |
| scope="row" | Nancy Holmes
| 1959 | | poet | The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | David Homel
| 1952 | | novelist, translator | Electrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown |
| scope="row" | Hugh Hood
| 1928 | 2000 | novelist | The New Age |
| scope="row" | Cornelia Hoogland
| 1952 | | | |
| scope="row" | Hilda Mary Hooke
| 1898 | 1978 | poet, dramatist | |
| scope="row" | Emma Hooper
| 1980 | | novelist | Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs |
| scope="row" | Nalo Hopkinson
| 1960 | | science fiction, fantasy |
| scope="row" | Leah Horlick
| | | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good |
| scope="row" | Harold Horwood
| 1923 | 2006 | | |
| scope="row" | Karen Houle
| | | poet | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology |
| scope="row" | Liz Howard
| | | poet | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent |
| scope="row" | Stevie Howell
| | | poet | Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose |
| scope="row" | Nazanine Hozar
| 1978 | | novelist | Aria |
| scope="row" | David Huebert
| | | short stories, poetry | Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley |
| scope="row" | Annie Campbell Huestis
| 1878 | 1960 | short stories, poetry | Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp |
| scope="row" | Tanya Huff
| 1957 | | fantasy | |
| scope="row" | Matt Hughes
| 1949 | | | |
| scope="row" | Helen Humphreys
| 1961 | | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus |
| scope="row" | Aislinn Hunter
| | | | |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Catherine Hunter
| 1957 | | | |
| scope="row" | Maureen Hunter
| 1948 | | | |
| scope="row" | Mervyn Huston
| 1912 | 2001 | humorist | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes |
| scope="row" | Nancy Huston
| 1953 | | novelist, translator | |
| scope="row" | Linda Hutcheon
| 1947 | | critic, academic | The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation. |
| scope="row" | Hazel Hutchins
| | | | |
| Chris Hutchinson
|1972 | |poet, novelist, academic |Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames |
| scope="row" | Bruce Hutchison
| 1901 | 1992 | | |
| scope="row" | Céline Huyghebaert
| | | novelist | Le drap blanc |
| scope="row" | Joel Thomas Hynes
| 1976 | | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday |
| scope="row" | Maureen Hynes
| | | poet | Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Ameer Idreis
| 1999 | | novelist | The Ewald Series |
| scope="row" | Michael Ignatieff
| 1947 | | novelist, academic | Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging |
| scope="row" | George K. Ilsley
| 1958 | | novelist, short stories | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug |
| scope="row" | Neamat Imam
| 1971 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Susan Ioannou
| 1944 | | poet | Clarity Between Clouds |
| scope="row" | Anosh Irani
| 1974 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Ann Ireland
| 1953 | 2018 | novelist | Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi |
| scope="row" | Dionne Irving
| | | novelist, short stories | Quint, The Islands |
| scope="row" | Brian Thomas Isaac
| 1950 | | novelist | All the Quiet Places |
| scope="row" | Adel Iskandar
| 1977 | | media critic | Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism |
| scope="row" | Doyali Islam
| | | poet | Yusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft |
| scope="row" | Frances Itani
| 1942 | | novelist | Deafening |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" 1983 style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works Dragons of Nesbit |
|---|
| scope="row" | Donald Jack
| 1924 | 2003 | novelist, playwright | The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses |
| scope="row" | Suzanne Jacob
| 1953 | | novelist, poet | Laura Laur, La Part de feu |
| scope="row" | Heidi L. M. Jacobs
| | | novelist | Molly of the Mall |
| scope="row" | Maria Jacobs
| 1930 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Michael Jacot
| 1924 | 2006 | novelist, screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Simone St. James
| | | novelist | The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls |
| scope="row" | Anna Brownell Jameson
| 1794 | 1860 | | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada |
| scope="row" | J. Robert Janes
| 1935 | 2022 | mysteries | |
| scope="row" | Mark Anthony Jarman
| 1955 | | novelist, short stories | 19 Knives, My White Planet |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Claude Jasmin
| 1930 | 2021 | novelist, screenwriter, short stories | Éthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal |
| scope="row" | Michel Jean
| | | novelist, journalist | Kukum, Atuk |
| scope="row" | François Jeanneret
| 1890 | 1967 | historian | |
| scope="row" | E. A. Jenns
| 1860 | 1930 | poet | Evening to Morning, and Other Poems |
| scope="row" | Paulette Jiles
| 1943 | | novelist, poet | Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women |
| scope="row" | Gilles Jobidon
| 1950 | | novelist | La Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé |
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|1956 | |children's/young adult literature |Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series |
| scope="row" | K. V. Johansen
| 1968 | | fantasy, science fiction | Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus |
| scope="row" | Jessica Johns
| | | novelist, short stories | Bad Cree |
| scope="row" | Linda Johns
| 1945 | | non-fiction |
| scope="row" | E. Pauline Johnson
| 1861 | 1913 | poet | Canadian Born |
| scope="row" | Wentworth M. Johnson
| 1939 | 2014 | science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction | Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series |
| scope="row" | Aviaq Johnston
| 1992/1993 | | children's/young adult literature | Those Who Run in the Sky |
| scope="row" | Julie Johnston
| | | children's/young adult literature |
| scope="row" | Wayne Johnston
| 1958 | | novelist, non-fiction | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion |
| scope="row" | Sean Johnston
| 1966 | | novelist, short stories, poet | A Day Does Not Go By |
| scope="row" | Andy Jones
| 1948 | | playwright, screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Alice Jones
| 1853 | 1933 | novelist, essayist | Gabriel Praed's Castle |
| scope="row" | D. G. Jones
| 1929 | 2016 | poet, translator | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth |
| scope="row" | Scott Jones
| | | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You |
| scope="row" | Terry Jordan
| | | short stories | It's a Hard Cow |
| scope="row" | Eve Joseph
| 1953 | | poet | The Startled Heart, Quarrels |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Michael Kaan
| | | fiction | The Water Beetles |
| scope="row" | Joseph Kakwinokanasum
| | | fiction | My Indian Summer |
| scope="row" | Elaine Kalman Naves
| 1947 | | non-fiction | Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story |
| scope="row" | Surjeet Kalsey
| | | poet, drama, short stories, translator | FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart |
| scope="row" | Smaro Kamboureli
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Alan Kane
| 1954 | | |
| scope="row" | Donna Kane
| | | poet | Orrery |
| scope="row" | Adeena Karasick
| 1965 | | poet | This Poem |
| scope="row" | Ibi Kaslik
| 1973 | | novelist | Skinny, The Angel Riots |
| scope="row" | Welwyn Wilton Katz
| 1948 | | | |
| scope="row" | Aristote Kavungu
| 1962 | | fiction, poetry | Un train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi |
| scope="row" | Guy Gavriel Kay
| 1954 | | fantasy | The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan |
| scope="row" | Greg Kearney
| | | short stories, drama | Mommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun |
| scope="row" | Lionel Kearns
| 1937 | | fiction, essays, digital-word-art | Birth of God/uniVers (or BoG/uVr), Convergences |
| scope="row" | Diane Keating
| | | poet | No Birds or Flowers |
| scope="row" | Julie Keith
| | | short stories | The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There |
| scope="row" | Thomas P. Kelley
| 1910 | 1982 | pulp, true crime | The Black Donnellys |
| scope="row" | Kaie Kellough
| 1975 | | poet, novelist, short stories | Magnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads |
| scope="row" | Cathal Kelly
| | | sportswriter, memoirist | Boy Wonders |
| scope="row" | M. T. Kelly
| 1946 | | novelist | A Dream Like Mine |
| scope="row" | Sean Kelly
| 1940 | 2022 | humor | Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon |
| scope="row" | Olivier Kemeid
| 1975 | | playwright | L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés |
| scope="row" | Oonya Kempadoo
| | | novelist | Naniki |
| scope="row" | Howard Angus Kennedy
| 1861 | 1938 | Historian, journalist | The Northwest Rebellion |
| scope="row" | Michael Kenyon
| | | novelist, short stories, poet | The Beautiful Children, Kleinberg |
| scope="row" | Conor Kerr
| 1988 | | novelist, poet | Avenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers |
| scope="row" | Susan Kerslake
| 1943 | | novelist, short stories | Middlewatch, The Book of Fears |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | William Kilbourn
| 1926 | 1995 | historian | The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion |
| scope="row" | Crawford Kilian
| 1941 | | |The Last Vikings |
| scope="row" | Crad Kilodney
| 1948 | 2014 | short stories | Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda |
| scope="row" | Deborah Kimmett
| | | playwright, humorist | Miracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy |
| scope="row" | Basil King
| 1859 | 1928 | novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association | The Inner Shrine (1909) |
| scope="row" | Thomas King
| 1943 | | novelist, non-fiction | Green Grass, Running Water |
| scope="row" | Wesley King
| 1987 | | novelist, fiction | OCDaniel, The Wizenard Series |
| scope="row" | Mark Kingwell
| 1963 | | philosopher | Dreams of Millennium |
| scope="row" | W.P. Kinsella
| 1935 | 2016 | novelist, short stories | Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside |
| scope="row" | William Kirby
| 1817 | 1906 | novelist, poet | The Golden Dog |
| scope="row" | Barbara Klar
| 1966 | | poet | The Night You Called Me a Shadow |
| scope="row" | Sarah Klassen
| 1932 | | novelist, poet | Journey to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs |
| scope="row" | A. M. Klein
| 1909 | 1972 | novelist, poet |
| scope="row" | Joshua Knelman
| | | creative non-fiction | Hot Art |
| scope="row" | Chelene Knight
| | | poet, creative non-fiction | Dear Current Occupant |
| scope="row" | Raymond Knister
| 1899 | 1932 | |Grapes (2006) |
| scope="row" | Alexander Knox
| 1907 | 1995 | actor, novelist |Night Of The White Bear |
| scope="row" | Tamai Kobayashi
| 1965 | | short stories, novelist | Prairie Ostrich |
| scope="row" | Eric Koch
| 1919 | 2018 | novelist |Premonitions: A novel |
| scope="row" | Joy Kogawa
| 1935 | | poet, novelist | Obasan, Itsuka |
| scope="row" | Miodrag Kojadinović
| 1961 | | short story writer, poet | Érotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies |
| scope="row" | Sergio Kokis
| 1944 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac |
| scope="row" | Pamela Korgemagi
| | | novelist | The Hunter and the Old Woman |
| scope="row" | Gordon Korman
| 1963 | | children's, young adult literature |
| scope="row" | Myrna Kostash
| 1944 | | |Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe |
| scope="row" | Shane Koyczan
| 1976 | | |Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty (2012, House of Parlance Media) |
| scope="row" | Greg Kramer
| 1961 | 2013 | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally |
| scope="row" | Philip Kreiner
| 1950 | | novelist, short stories | People Like Us in a Place Like This |
| scope="row" | Henry Kreisel
| 1922 | 1991 | novelist | The Rich Man |
| scope="row" | Aaron Kreuter
| | | poet, short stories | You and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome |
| scope="row" | John Krizanc
| 1956 | | playwright | Tamara |
| scope="row" | Robert Kroetsch
| 1927 | 2011 | novelist, poet | The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K |
| scope="row" | Daniel Krolik
| 1977 | | playwright | Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay |
| scope="row" | Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
| 1965 | | novelist, short stories | Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things |
| scope="row" | Janice Kulyk Keefer
| 1952 | | novelist, poet | Constellations, The Green Library |
| scope="row" | J. D. Kurtness
| | | fiction | De vengeance |
| scope="row" | Michael Kusugak
| 1948 | | children's literature | The Littlest Sled Dog |
| scope="row" | Lydia Kwa
| 1959 | | fiction, poet | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Sonnet L'Abbé
| | | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe |
| scope="row" | Carole Labarre
| 1966 | | novelist | L'Or des mélèzes |
| scope="row" | Richard Labonté
| 1949 | 2022 | critic, anthologist | First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series |
| scope="row" | Rosa Labordé
| | | playwright | Léo |
| scope="row" | Marie-Sissi Labrèche
| 1969 | | screenwriter, novelist |
| scope="row" | Marie-Ève Lacasse
| 1982 | | novelist | Autobiographie de l'étranger |
| scope="row" | Edward A. Lacey
| 1988 | 1995 | poet | The Forms of Life |
| scope="row" | Myriam Lacroix
| | | novelist | How It Works Out |
| scope="row" | Ben Ladouceur
| 1987 | | poet | Otter |
| scope="row" | Chloé LaDuchesse
| | | poet | Exosquelette |
| scope="row" | Steven Laffoley
| 1965 | | non-fiction, novelist | Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo |
| scope="row" | Marie-Pier Lafontaine
| | | novelist | Chienne |
| scope="row" | Larissa Lai
| 1967 | | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand |
| scope="row" | Angélique Lalonde
| | | short stories | Glorious Frazzled Beings |
| scope="row" | Kama La Mackerel
| | | poet | ZOM-FAM |
| scope="row" | Vincent Lam
| 1974 | | medicine, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Headmaster's Wager |
| scope="row" | Tsering Yangzom Lama
| | | novelist | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies |
| scope="row" | Guillaume Lambert
| 1984 | | novelist, screenwriter | Satyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara |
| scope="row" | Kevin Lambert
| 1992 | | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval |
| scope="row" | Gerald Lampert
| 1920s | 1978 | novelist, poet | Tangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus |
| scope="row" | Tim Lander
| 1938 | 2023 | poet | Street Heart Poems |
| scope="row" | Patrick Lane
| 1939 | 2019 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
| scope="row" | André Langevin
| 1927 | 2009 | novelist, playwright, journalist | Évadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc |
| scope="row" | Marisa Lankester
| 1963 | | writer | Dangerous Odds |
| scope="row" | Shari Lapena
| 1960 | | novelist | Happiness Economics, The Couple Next Door |
| scope="row" | Annette Lapointe
| 1978 | | novelist | Stolen |
| scope="row" | Gilbert La Rocque
| 1943 | 1984 | novelist, biographer | Les masques |
| scope="row" | Hubert LaRue
| 1833 | 1881 | writer, physician, scientist | Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean |
| scope="row" | Stéphane Larue
| 1983 | | novelist | Le Plongeur |
| scope="row" | Evelyn Lau
| 1971 | | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid |
| scope="row" | Margaret Laurence
| 1926 | 1987 | novelist |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Marie-Renée Lavoie
| 1974 | | novelist | La petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate |
| scope="row" | Karen Lawrence
| 1951 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Life of Helen Alone |
| scope="row" | R.D. Lawrence
| 1921 | 2003 | naturalist, nature writer | Cry Wild |
| scope="row" | Mary Lawson
| 1946 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Irving Layton
| 1912 | 2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
| scope="row" | Jack Layton
| 1950 | 2011 | non-fiction | Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis |
| scope="row" | Stephen Leacock
| 1869 | 1944 | humorist |
| scope="row" | Georgette LeBlanc
| 1977 | | poet, translator | Alma, Prudent |
| scope="row" | Gérald Leblanc
| 1945 | 2005 | poet | Complaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra |
| scope="row" | Perrine Leblanc
| 1980 | | novelist | L'homme blanc, Malabourg |
| scope="row" | D. M. LeBourdais
| 1887 | 1964 | journalist, historian | Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution |
| scope="row" | Isabel LeBourdais
| 1909 | 2003 | journalist |
| scope="row" | Félix Leclerc
| 1914 | 1988 | writer, poet, singer-songwriter | Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers |
| scope="row" | Dennis Lee
| 1939 | | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies |
| scope="row" | John Alan Lee
| 1933 | 2013 | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex |
| scope="row" | JJ Lee
| | | non-fiction | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit |
| scope="row" | Jen Sookfong Lee
| | | novelist | The End of East |
| scope="row" | John B. Lee
| 1951 | | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
| scope="row" | Nancy Lee
| 1970 | | short stories | Dead Girls |
| scope="row" | Ronald Lee
| 1934 | 2020 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
| scope="row" | Sky Lee
| 1952 | | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe |
| scope="row" | Mathyas Lefebure
| | | novelist | D'où viens tu, berger? |
| scope="row" | Lily Alice Lefevre
| 1854 | 1938 | poet | The Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By The Sea |
| scope="row" | Mark Leiren-Young
| 1962 | | playwright, novelist | Shylock (play), The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen |
| scope="row" | Roger Lemelin
| 1919 | 1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
| scope="row" | Matt Lennox
| 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead |
| scope="row" | John Lent
| 1948 | 2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
| scope="row" | Don LePan
| 1954 | | novelist | Animals: A Novel |
| scope="row" | Douglas LePan
| 1914 | 1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology" |
| scope="row" | Catherine Leroux
| 1979 | | novelist, short stories | Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria |
| scope="row" | Pierre Leroux
| 1958 | | novelist | Le Rire des femmes,, Cher éditeur |
| scope="row" | Alex Leslie
| | | poet, short stories | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You |
| scope="row" | Mark Leslie
| 1969 | | novelist, non-fiction, short stories | Haunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York |
| scope="row" | Sophie Létourneau
| 1980 | | novelist | Chasse à l'homme |
| scope="row" | Carrianne Leung
| | | novelist, short stories | The Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You |
| scope="row" | J. R. (Roger) Léveillé
| 1945 | | novelist, poet, non-fiction | The Setting Lake Sun |
| scope="row" | Yves Lever
| 1942 | 2020 | film critic, historian, biographer | Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec |
| scope="row" | Lilian Leveridge
| 1879 | 1953 | poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles | "Over the Hills of Home" |
| scope="row" | Norman Levine
| 1923 | 2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
| scope="row" | Shar Levine
| 1953 | | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope |
| scope="row" | Naomi K. Lewis
| 1976 | | novelist, non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers |
| scope="row" | Wyndham Lewis
| 1882 | 1957 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Katherine Leyton
| | | poet | All the Gold Hurts My Mouth |
| scope="row" | T. Liem
| | | poet | Obits |
| scope="row" | Hillar Liitoja
| | | playwright | The Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville |
| scope="row" | Thea Lim
| 1981 | | novelist | An Ocean of Minutes |
| scope="row" | Michael Lista
| 1983 | | poet | Bloom |
| scope="row" | Ashley Little
| 1983 | | children's, young adult literature | The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang |
| scope="row" | Jean Little
| 1932 | 2020 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
| scope="row" | Dorothy Livesay
| 1909 | 1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
| scope="row" | Billie Livingston
| 1965 | | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes |
| scope="row" | Douglas Lochhead
| 1922 | 2011 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
| scope="row" | Lynette Loeppky
| | | memoirist | Cease |
| scope="row" | John Lorinc
| | | journalist | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
| scope="row" | Kevin Loring
| 1974 | | playwright | Where the Blood Mixes |
| scope="row" | Jennifer LoveGrove
| | | poet, novelist | Watch How We Walk |
| scope="row" | Lezlie Lowe
| | | journalist, non-fiction | No Place to Go, The Volunteers |
| scope="row" | Malcolm Lowry
| 1909 | 1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
| scope="row" | Pat Lowther
| 1935 | 1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
| scope="row" | Canisia Lubrin
| | | poet, novelist | The Dyzgraphxst, Code Noir |
| scope="row" | Jack Ludwig
| 1922 | 2018 | novelist, short stories, sportswriter | Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration |
| scope="row" | Sidura Ludwig
| | | novelist, short stories | Holding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected |
| scope="row" | Pearl Luke
| 1958 | | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee |
| scope="row" | Janet Lunn
| 1928 | 2017 | children's literature |
| scope="row" | Laura Lush
| 1959 | | poet, short story writer | Hometown, Going to the Zoo |
| scope="row" | Richard Lush
| 1934 | | poet | A Manual for Lying Down |
| scope="row" | Michael Lynch
| 1944 | 1991 | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends |
| scope="row" | Annabel Lyon
| 1971 | | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean |
| scope="row" | Eswyn Lyster
| 1923 | 2009 | war brides, war | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Rozena Maart
| 1962 | | novelist, short stories | Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle |
| scope="row" | Patrick MacAdam
| 1934 | 2015 | | Gold Medal Misfits |
| scope="row" | Annick MacAskill
| | | poet | Shadow Blight |
| scope="row" | Ann-Marie MacDonald
| 1958 | | novelist, playwright | Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) |
| scope="row" | Bryden MacDonald
| 1960 | | playwright | Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath |
| scope="row" | D. R. MacDonald
| 1939 | | novelist, short stories | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart |
| scope="row" | Dawn Macdonald
| | | poet | Northerny |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
| 1864 | 1922 | poet, children's literature, short stories, essays | |
| scope="row" | Hugh MacDonald
| 1945 | | |This is a Love Song |
| scope="row" | Jake MacDonald
| 1949 | 2020 | |The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country |
| scope="row" | Janice MacDonald
| 1959 | | novelist, children's literature, short stories | Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out |
| scope="row" | Maggie MacDonald
| 1979 | | | |
| scope="row" | Wilson MacDonald
| 1880 | 1967 | poet | Song of the Prairie Land |
| scope="row" | Lee MacDougall
| | | playwright | High Life |
| scope="row" | Gwendolyn MacEwen
| 1941 | 1987 | poet, novelist | Julian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams |
| scope="row" | Mary Esther MacGregor
| 1872 | 1961 | novelist, non-fiction | A Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley. |
| scope="row" | Roy MacGregor
| 1948 | | journalist, non-fiction | Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey |
| scope="row" | Agnes Maule Machar
| 1837 | 1927 | | |
| scope="row" | Linden MacIntyre
| 1943 | | novelist, journalist |
| scope="row" | Matthew MacKenzie
| | | playwright | Bears, The First Métis Man of Odesa |
| scope="row" | Rory Maclean
| 1954 | | | |
| scope="row" | Hugh MacLennan
| 1907 | 1990 | novelist, essayist |
| scope="row" | Matt MacLennan
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Michael MacLennan
| 1968 | | | |
| scope="row" | Alexander MacLeod
| 1972 | | short stories | Light Lifting |
| scope="row" | Alison MacLeod
| | | fiction | Unexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts |
| scope="row" | Alistair MacLeod
| 1936 | 2014 | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Macleod
| | | biographer | |
| scope="row" | Joan MacLeod
| 1954 | | playwright | Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl |
| scope="row" | Rick Maddocks
| 1970 | | short stories | Sputnik Diner |
| scope="row" | Adriana Maggs
| | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Randall Maggs
| | | poet | Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems |
| scope="row" | Michèle Magny
| 1944 | | playwright | Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel |
| scope="row" | Anand Mahadevan
| 1979 | | novelist | The Strike |
| scope="row" | Rabindranath Maharaj
| 1955 | | novelist, short stories | The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice |
| scope="row" | Louise Maheux-Forcier
| 1929 | 2015 | novelist, radio and television drama | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Antonine Maillet
| 1929 | 2025 | novelist, playwright |
| scope="row" | André Major
| 1942 | | poet, novelist | Les Rescapés |
| scope="row" | Kevin Major
| 1949 | | | |
| scope="row" | Pasha Malla
| | | short stories, journalism | The Withdrawal Method |
| scope="row" | Donato Mancini
| | | poet | Ligature, Æthel, Same Diff |
| scope="row" | Eli Mandel
| 1922 | 1992 | poet | Trio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance |
| scope="row" | Miriam Mandel
| 1930 | 1982 | poet | Lions at Her Face, Station 14 |
| scope="row" | Avner Mandelman
| | | novelist, finance | The Debba |
| scope="row" | David Manicom
| 1960 | | poet, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Lee Maracle
| 1950 | 2021 | poet, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Blaine Marchand
| 1949 | | poet, non-fiction, novelist | A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives |
| scope="row" | Jovette Marchessault
| 1938 | 2012 | novelist, playwright | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien |
| scope="row" | Hubert Marcoux
| 1941 | 2009 | non-fiction, adventure travel | Around the World in 18 Years |
| scope="row" | Michèle Marineau
| 1955 | | novelist, translator | La Route de Chlifa |
| scope="row" | Robert Marinier
| 1954 | | playwright, television | L'Insomnie, Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville |
| scope="row" | Daphne Marlatt
| 1942 | | | |
| scope="row" | Paul Marlowe
| | | novelist, short stories | Sporeville |
| scope="row" | John Marlyn
| 1912 | 1985 | | |
| scope="row" | Nicole Markotic
| 1962 | | | |
| scope="row" | Tom Marshall
| 1938 | 1993 | poet, novelist, critic |
| scope="row" | Yolanda T. Marshall
| 1978 | | children's literature | My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans |
| scope="row" | Émile Martel
| 1941 | 2023 | poet, short stories | Pour orchestre et poète seul |
| scope="row" | Yann Martel
| 1963 | | novelist, short stories | Life of Pi, The High Mountains of Portugal |
| scope="row" | Camille Martin
| 1956 | | poet, collage artist | Sonnets, Looms |
| scope="row" | Claire Martin
| 1914 | 2014 | | La joue droite |
| scope="row" | Paul Nicholas Mason
| 1958 | | novelist, playwright | Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave, The Night Drummer, To Our Graves |
| scope="row" | Vincent Massey
| 1887 | 1967 | historian | On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march |
| scope="row" | Elan Mastai
| | | screenwriter, novelist |
| scope="row" | Carol Matas
| 1949 | | novelist | After the War, Daniel's Story |
| scope="row" | Shirlee Smith Matheson
| 1943 | | | |
| scope="row" | Suzette Mayr
| 1967 | | novelist | Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter |
| scope="row" | John Bentley Mays
| 1941 | 2016 | journalist, novelist, memoirist | In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood |
| scope="row" | Susan Mayse
| 1948 | | creative non-fiction | Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web |
| scope="row" | Julie Mazzieri
| 1975 | | novelist | Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco |
| scope="row" | Melchior Mbonimpa
| 1955 | | novelist, non-fiction | Les morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel |
| scope="row" | Tawiah M'carthy
| | | playwright | Obaaberima |
| scope="row" | Colin McAdam
| | | novelist | Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth |
| scope="row" | Steve McCaffery
| 1947 | | | |
| scope="row" | Julia McCarthy
| | | poet | Return from Erebus, All the Names Between |
| scope="row" | Nellie McClung
| 1873 | 1951 | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Kathleen McConnell (a/k/a Kathy Mac)
| | | poet, academic | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers |
| scope="row" | Derek McCormack
| 1969 | | novelist, short stories | Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly |
| scope="row" | Eric McCormack
| 1938 | 2023 | novelist | The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
| scope="row" | Edward McCourt
| 1907 | 1972 | novelist, non-fiction | Music at the Close |
| scope="row" | John McCrae
| 1872 | 1918 | poet |
| scope="row" | Kathleen McCracken
| 1960 | | poet | Blue Light, Bay and College |
| scope="row" | Derek McCulloch
| 1964 | | graphic novelist |
| scope="row" | Thomas McCulloch
| 1776 | 1843 | humourist | The Stepsure Letters |
| scope="row" | Colin McDougall
| 1917 | 1984 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Franklin D. McDowell
| 1888 | 1965 | novelist | The Champlain Road |
| scope="row" | Jim McEwen
| | | novelist | Fearnoch |
| scope="row" | David McFadden
| 1940 | 2018 | poet, novelist, short stories | The Art of Darkness, What's the Score? |
| scope="row" | Donna McFarlane
| 1958 | | novelist | Division of Surgery |
| scope="row" | Leslie McFarlane (a/k/a Franklin W. Dixon)
| 1902 | 1977 | children's literature |
| scope="row" | Sheryl McFarlane
| 1954 | | children's literature, young adult fiction | Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog |
| scope="row" | Oonah McFee
| 1916 | 2006 | novels, short stories | Sandbars |
| scope="row" | Peter McGehee
| 1955 | 1991 | novels, short stories | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart |
| scope="row" | Robin McGrath
| 1949 | | novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction | Escaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt |
| scope="row" | Jean McIlwraith
| 1858 | 1938 | novelist, biographer | |
| scope="row" | Edgar McInnis
| 1899 | 1973 | poet, historian | The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War |
| scope="row" | James McIntyre
| 1827 | 1906 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Ami McKay
| 1968 | | | The Birth House |
| scope="row" | Don McKay
| 1942 | | poet, essayist | |
| scope="row" | Leo McKay, Jr.
| 1964 | | novelist, short stories | Twenty-Six, Like This |
| scope="row" | Bruce Alistair McKelvie
| 1889 | 1960 | journalist, historian | Magic, Murder and Mystery |
| scope="row" | Ian McLachlan
| | | novelist, playwright | The Seventh Hexagram |
| scope="row" | Stuart McLean
| 1948 | 2017 | humorist, short stories | Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe |
| scope="row" | Marshall McLuhan
| 1911 | 1980 | academic | |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Sylvia McNicoll
| 1954 | | | |
| scope="row" | Florence McNeil
| 1932 | 2013 | poet, playwright | Overlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me |
| scope="row" | Marie McPhedran
| 1904 | 1974 | novelist | Cargoes on the Great Lakes |
| scope="row" | Christopher Meades
| 1974 | | novelist, short stories | The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary |
| scope="row" | John Melady
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Lee Mellor
| 1982 | | true crime, music critic | Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder |
| scope="row" | Rick Mercer
| 1969 | | comedian, television personality & writer, political satirist, and author | Rick Mercer Report, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, A Nation Worth Ranting About |
| scope="row" | Judith Merril
| 1923 | 1997 | science fiction, editor | |
| scope="row" | Mireille Messier
| 1971 | | children's literature | The Branch, The Magic Cap |
| scope="row" | Edmund Metatawabin
| 1948 | | memoirist | Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History |
| scope="row" | John Metcalf
| 1938 | | | |
| scope="row" | Stéfani Meunier
| 1971 | | novelist, short stories | Une carte postale de l'océan |
| scope="row" | Sarah Mian
| | | poet, novelist, short stories | When the Saints |
| scope="row" | Shayne Michael
| | | poet | Fif et sauvage |
| scope="row" | Anne Michaels
| 1958 | | poet, novelist |
| scope="row" | Sean Michaels
| 1982 | | novelist, music critic |
| scope="row" | Andrée A. Michaud
| 1957 | | novelist, playwright | Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée |
| scope="row" | Marianne Micros
| 1943 | | short stories, poet | Eye |
| scope="row" | Jesse Edgar Middleton
| 1872 | 1960 | journalist, historian, songwriter |
| scope="row" | Stevie Mikayne
| | | mystery novelist, children's literature | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts |
| scope="row" | Roy Miki
| 1942 | 2024 | | |
| scope="row" | Ron Miksha
| 1954 | | | Bad Beekeeping |
| scope="row" | Eleanor Millard
| 1942 | | novelist, memoirist, short stories | River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow |
| scope="row" | John Miller
| 1968 | | novelist | The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath |
| scope="row" | Orlo Miller
| 1911 | 1993 | historian, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Kenneth G. Mills
| 1923 | 2004 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Christine Miscione
| | | novelist, short stories | Auxiliary Skins, Carafola |
| scope="row" | Christian Mistral
| 1964 | | novelist, poet, songwriter | Vamp |
| scope="row" | Rohinton Mistry
| 1952 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Jared Mitchell
| 1955 | | | |
| scope="row" | John Wendell Mitchell
| 1882 | 1951 | novelist | The Yellow Briar |
| scope="row" | W. O. Mitchell
| 1914 | 1998 | novelist, short stories | Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid |
| scope="row" | Rick Mofina
| 1959 | | mystery, thriller | Blood of Others |
| scope="row" | Lucy Maud Montgomery
| 1874 | 1942 | novelist, children's literature |
| scope="row" | Susanna Moodie
| 1803 | 1885 | memoirist | Roughing it in the Bush |
| scope="row" | Brian Moore
| 1921 | 1999 | | Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
| scope="row" | Christopher G. Moore
| 1952 | | novelist, short stories | Vincent Calvino Private Eye series |
| scope="row" | Lisa Moore
| 1964 | | | short stories, novelist |
| scope="row" | Jeffrey Moore
| | | novelist | scope="row" | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists,The Extinction Club |
| scope="row" | Shani Mootoo
| 1958 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
| | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Pierre Morency
| 1942 | | poet, playwright | |
| scope="row" | Bernice Morgan
| 1935 | | | |
| scope="row" | Dwayne Morgan
| 1974 | | | |
| scope="row" | Grace Jones Morgan
| 1884 | 1977 | pulp | |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Tara Lee Morin
| | | poet, memoirist | As I Remember It |
| scope="row" | Guillaume Morissette
| 1983 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Kim Moritsugu
| | | novels | Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure |
| scope="row" | Donna Morrissey
| 1956 | | | |
| scope="row" | Kim Morrissey
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Garry Thomas Morse
| | | poet, novelist | Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour |
| scope="row" | Colin Morton
| 1948 | | |
| scope="row" | Marie Moser
| 1948 | | novelist, short stories | Counterpoint |
| scope="row" | Daniel David Moses
| 1952 | 2020 | poet and playwright | |
| scope="row" | Tara Moss
| 1973 | | novelist | Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess |
| scope="row" | Erín Moure
| 1955 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Farley Mowat
| 1921 | 2014 | novelist, naturalist | Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America |
| scope="row" | Claire Mulligan
| | | novelist, short stories | The Reckoning of Boston Jim |
| scope="row" | Alice Munro
| 1931 | 2024 | short stories | The Progress of Love, Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman |
| scope="row" | Jim Munroe
| 1945 | | science fiction | Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico |
| scope="row" | Robert Munsch
| 1945 | | children's literature | Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess |
| scope="row" | Janet Munsil
| | | playwright | Be Still, That Elusive Spark |
| scope="row" | Sachiko Murakami
| 1980 | | poet | The Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render |
| scope="row" | George Murray
| 1971 | | poet | The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms |
| scope="row" | Morgan Murray
| | | novelist | Dirty Birds |
| scope="row" | Sheila Murray
| | | novelist, short stories | Finding Edward |
| scope="row" | John Murrell
| 1945 | 2019 | playwright | |
| scope="row" | Susan Musgrave
| 1951 | | poet, novelist | The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids |
| scope="row" | Maria Mutch
| | | memoirist, short stories | Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours |
| scope="row" | Téa Mutonji
| | | short stories | Shut Up You're Pretty |
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! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Noor Naga
| | | novelist | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English |
| scope="row" | Hasan Namir
| 1987 | | novelist | God in Pink |
| scope="row" | Shenaaz Nanji
| 1954 | | young adult literature | Child of Dandelions |
| scope="row" | Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
| 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Sanaaq |
| scope="row" | Akhtar Naraghi
| | | novelist, poet | The Big Green House |
| scope="row" | André Narbonne
| | | novelist, poet, short stories | Twelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia |
| scope="row" | Angela Narth
| 1946 | | children's literature, non-fiction | Simon With Two Left Feet |
| scope="row" | Jim Nason
| | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow |
| scope="row" | Riel Nason
| | | young adult novelist |
| scope="row" | Dimitri Nasrallah
| 1977 | | novelist | Blackbodying, Hotline |
| scope="row" | Michael Nathanson
| | | playwright | Talk |
| scope="row" | Blaise Ndala
| | | novelist | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov |
| scope="row" | Jen Neale
| | | novelist | Land Mammals and Sea Creatures |
| scope="row" | Émile Nelligan
| 1879 | 1941 | poet | Émile Nelligan et son œuvre |
| scope="row" | Max Nemni
| | | political scientist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed |
| scope="row" | Monique Nemni
| 1936 | 2022 | linguist, biographer | Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed |
| scope="row" | Pierre Nepveu
| 1946 | | poet, novelist | Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques |
| scope="row" | Sylvain Neuvel
| 1973 | | science fiction | Sleeping Giants |
| scope="row" | John Newlove
| 1938 | 2003 | poet | Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled |
| scope="row" | Peter C. Newman
| 1929 | 2023 | journalist | The Canadian Establishment |
| scope="row" | B. P. Nichol
| 1944 | 1988 | poet | Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology |
| scope="row" | Cecily Nicholson
| | | poet | From the Poplars, Wayside Sang |
| scope="row" | Hal Niedzviecki
| 1971 | | novelist, critic | Ditch, We Want Some Too |
| scope="row" | Susin Nielsen
| | | children's and young adult literature |
| scope="row" | Frederick Niven
| 1878 | 1944 | novelist | The Flying Years |
| scope="row" | Fraser Nixon
| | | crime novelist | The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head |
| scope="row" | Francine Noël
| 1945 | | novelist, playwright | La Femme de ma vie |
| scope="row" | Henri Nouwen
| 1932 | 1996 | theologian | The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love |
| scope="row" | Mary Novik
| 1945 | | novelist | Conceit |
| scope="row" | Alden Nowlan
| 1933 | 1983 | poet | Bread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
O
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; line-height:18px; width:100%;" |
| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Keith Oatley
| 1939 | | novelist, psychology, scholar | The Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions |
| scope="row" | Sheldon Oberman
| 1949 | 2004 | children's literature | The Shaman's Nephew |
| scope="row" | Theodore Odrach
| 1912 | 1964 | novelist | Wave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories |
| scope="row" | Rohan O'Grady
| 1922 | 2014 | novelist | Let's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal |
| scope="row" | Howard O'Hagan
| 1902 | 1982 | novelist, short stories | Tay John |
| scope="row" | Alix Ohlin
| | | novelist, short stories | Inside, Signs and Wonders |
| scope="row" | Alexandra Oliver
| 1970 | | poet | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
| scope="row" | Tolu Oloruntoba
| | | poet | The Junta of Happenstance |
| scope="row" | Bryan Lee O'Malley
| 1979 | | graphic novelist |
| scope="row" | Heather O'Neill
| 1973 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Michael Ondaatje
| 1943 | | novelist, poet |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
| | | novelist | The Son of the House |
| scope="row" | Kenneth Oppel
| 1967 | | children's literature | Airborn Series, Silverwing saga |
| scope="row" | Stephen Osborne
| 1947 | | journalist | Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World |
| scope="row" | Gabriel Osson
| | | novelist, poet, memoirist | Le jour se lèvera |
| scope="row" | Martha Ostenso
| 1900 | 1963 | novelist, screenwriter | Wild Geese |
| scope="row" | Lawrence O'Toole
| | | film critic, memoirist | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home |
| scope="row" | Fernand Ouellette
| 1930 | | poet, novelist | Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures |
| scope="row" | Susan Ouriou
| 1955 | | novelist, short stories, translator | Damselfish |
| scope="row" | James Macdonald Oxley
| 1855 | 1907 | novelist (juvenile) | |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Frank L. Packard
| 1877 | 1942 | Novelist |
| scope="row" | Susan Paddon
| | | poet | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths |
| scope="row" | P. K. Page
| 1916 | 2010 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Basil Papademos
| 1957 | | erotica | Mount Royal |
| scope="row" | Aaron Paquette
| 1974 | | young adult literature, fantasy | Lightfinder |
| scope="row" | Jivesh Parasram
| | | playwright | Take d Milk, Nah? |
| scope="row" | Arleen Paré
| 1946 | | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains |
| scope="row" | Erna Paris
| | | literary non-fiction | Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History |
| scope="row" | Fawn Parker
| | | novelist, poet, short stories | What We Both Know |
| scope="row" | Gilbert Parker
| 1862 | 1932 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Amy Parkinson
| 1855 | 1938 | poet | Love Through All, Best |
| scope="row" | Jocelyn Parr
| | | fiction | Uncertain Weights and Measures |
| scope="row" | Amanda Parris
| | | playwright | Other Side of the Game |
| scope="row" | Markoosie Patsauq
| 1942 | 2020 | fiction | Harpoon of the Hunter |
| scope="row" | Kevin Patterson
| 1964 | | novelist, memoirist | Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between |
| scope="row" | Raymond M. Patterson
| 1898 | 1984 | | |
| scope="row" | Philip Kevin Paul
| | | poet | Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger |
| scope="row" | Loghan Paylor
| | | novelist, short stories | The Cure for Drowning |
| scope="row" | Joan Payzant
| 1925 | 2013 | columnist, historical, children's 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 |
| scope="row" | Soraya Peerbaye
| | | poet, dramatist | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell |
| scope="row" | Francine Pelletier
| 1959 | | science fiction, young adult literature | |
| scope="row" | Fred Pellerin
| 1976 | | short stories | |
| scope="row" | Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
| 1971 | | children's, memoirist, academic | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant |
| scope="row" | Louise Penny
| 1958 | | mysteries | Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month |
| scope="row" | H. R. Percy
| 1920 | 1997 | novelist, short stories | Painted Ladies |
| scope="row" | Susan Perly
| | | novelist, short stories | Love Street, Death Valley |
| scope="row" | Amanda Peters
| | | novelist, short stories | The Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon |
| scope="row" | Bradley Peters
| | | poet | Sonnets from a Cell |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Len Peterson
| 1917 | 2008 | | |
| scope="row" | Zoey Leigh Peterson
| | | novelist | Next Year, for Sure |
| scope="row" | Geneviève Pettersen
| 1982 | | novelist, blogger | La déesse des mouches à feu |
| scope="row" | Josephine Phelan
| 1905 | 1979 | History, biography | The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee |
| scope="row" | Edward O. Phillips
| 1931 | 2020 | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday |
| scope="row" | Wendy Phillips
| | | children's literature | Fishtailing |
| scope="row" | Lorne Pierce
| 1890 | 1961 | literary critic | |
| scope="row" | Joseph Jomo Pierre
| | | playwright | Shakespeare's Nigga |
| scope="row" | Emmanuelle Pierrot
| 1994 | | novelist | La version qui n'intéresse personne |
| scope="row" | Karen Pinchin
| | | non-fiction | Kings of Their Own Ocean |
| scope="row" | Leslie Hall Pinder
| 1948 | 2021 | fiction | On Double Tracks |
| scope="row" | Sarah Pinder
| | | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place |
| scope="row" | William Ping
| | | fiction | Hollow Bamboo |
| scope="row" | Joseph Pivato
| 1946 | | literary critic, editor | Echo: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing |
| scope="row" | Hazel Jane Plante
| | | novelist | Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City |
| scope="row" | Michel Pleau
| 1964 | | poet | La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit |
| scope="row" | Casey Plett
| 1987 | | short stories, novelist | A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of A Woman |
| scope="row" | Jacques Poitras
| | | journalist, non-fiction | Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future |
| scope="row" | Craig Poile
| | | poet | First Crack, True Concessions |
| scope="row" | Daniel Poliquin
| 1953 | | | |
| scope="row" | Sharon Pollock
| 1936 | 2021 | | |
| scope="row" | Michael Poole
| 1936 | 2010 | non-fiction |
| Helen Fogwill Porter
|1930 |2023 |non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright |Below the Bridge, Finishing School |
| Michelle Porter
| | |novelist, poet, non-fiction |Inquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story |
| scope="row" | Liza Potvin
| 1958 | | non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Gabrielle Poulin
| 1929 | 2015 | novelist, poet | La Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison |
| scope="row" | Jacques Poulin
| 1937 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Christine Pountney
| 1971 | | novelist | Last Chance Texaco |
| scope="row" | Joël Pourbaix
| 1958 | | poet | Le mal du pays est un art oublié |
| scope="row" | Steve Poutré
| 1979 | | novelist | Lait cru |
| scope="row" | B.W. Powe
| 1955 | | philosopher | A Canada of Light |
| scope="row" | Kerry Lee Powell
| | | poet, short stories | The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush |
| scope="row" | Craig Francis Power
| | | novelist | Blood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love |
| scope="row" | Paul David Power
| | | playwright | Crippled |
| scope="row" | Jen Powley
| 1977 | 2023 | non-fiction, interactive fiction | Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis |
| scope="row" | E. J. Pratt
| 1883 | 1964 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Steven Price
| | | poet, novelist | Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness |
| scope="row" | Robert Priest
| 1951 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Alex Pugsley
| 1963 | | novels, short stories, screenwriter | Dirty Singles, Aubrey McKee |
| scope="row" | Kate Pullinger
| 1961 | | novels, experimental/online fiction | The Mistress of Nothing |
| scope="row" | Al Purdy
| 1918 | 2000 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Andrew Pyper
| 1968 | 2025 | novelist | Lost Girls, The Trade Mission |
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| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; line-height:18px; width:100%;" |
| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
| | | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be |
| scope="row" | Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
| | | young adult literature | Skraelings, How Things Came to Be |
| scope="row" | Darlene Quaife
| 1948 | | novelist | Bone Bird |
| scope="row" | Andy Quan
| 1969 | | novelist | Calendar Boy, Slant, Six Positions |
| scope="row" | Paul Quarrington
| 1953 | 2010 | novelist, screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Meredith Quartermain
| 1950 | | poet, fiction | Vancouver Walking, Recipes from the Red Planet |
| scope="row" | Marion Quednau
| 1952 | | novelist, poet, short stories, children's literature | The Butterfly Chair, Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road |
| scope="row" | Sina Queyras
| 1963 | | poet, novelist | Lemon Hound, MxT, Autobiography of Childhood |
| scope="row" | Christine Quintana
| | | playwright | Selfie |
| scope="row" | Pascale Quiviger
| 1969 | | novelist | Le Cercle parfait |
| scope="row" | Anna Quon
| | | poet, novelist | |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Tom Rachman
| 1974 | | novelist | The Imperfectionists |
| scope="row" | Thomas Head Raddall
| 1903 | 1994 | novelist | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories |
| scope="row" | Kenneth Radu
| 1945 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Cost of Living, Distant Relations, A Private Performance |
| scope="row" | Nasrin Rahimieh
| | | Persian literature | Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage |
| scope="row" | Deepa Rajagopalan
| | | short stories | Peacocks of Instagram |
| scope="row" | Danny Ramadan
| 1984 | | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing |
| scope="row" | Menaka Raman-Wilms
| | | journalist, novelist | The Rooftop Garden |
| scope="row" | Gurcharan Rampuri
| 1929 | 2018 | | |
| scope="row" | Gord Rand
| | | playwright | Orgy in the Lighthouse, The Trouble with Mr. Adams |
| scope="row" | Edeet Ravel
| 1955 | | novelist | A Wall of Light, Ten Thousand Lovers |
| scope="row" | Angela Rawlings
| 1978 | | | |
| scope="row" | Ben Rayner
| | | music journalist | |
| scope="row" | Mark A. Rayner
| | | | |
| scope="row" | James Reaney
| 1926 | 2008 | poet, playwright | The Red Heart, A Suit of Nettles, Colours in the Dark, Black Donnelly's |
| scope="row" | Kelly Rebar
| 1956 | | playwright, screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Duke Redbird
| 1939 | | poet, academic, journalist | |
| scope="row" | Corey Redekop
| | | novelist, short stories | Husk |
| scope="row" | Michael Redhill
| 1966 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Beatrice Redpath
| 1886 | 1937 | poet, short stories | Drawn Shutters, White Lilac |
| scope="row" | Roberta Rees
| 1954 | | novelist, poet, short stories | Eyes Like Pigeons, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, Long After Fathers |
| scope="row" | Iain Reid
| 1980 | | novelist, memoirist | The Truth About Luck, I'm Thinking of Ending Things |
| scope="row" | Gayla Reid
| 1945 | | novels, short stories | To Be There With You |
| scope="row" | Raziel Reid
| 1990 | | young adult novelist |
| scope="row" | Stephen Reid
| 1950 | 2018 | memoirist, novelist | Jack Rabbit Parole |
| scope="row" | Zalika Reid-Benta
| | | short stories | Frying Plantain |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Maria Reva
| | | short stories | Good Citizens Need Not Fear |
| scope="row" | Shane Rhodes
| | | poet | The Holding Pattern, The Bindery |
| scope="row" | François Ricard
| 1947 | 2022 | biographer, essayist | La littérature contre elle-même, Gabrielle Roy, une vie |
| scope="row" | Nino Ricci
| 1959 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Waubgeshig Rice
| | | novelist, short stories | Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow |
| scope="row" | David Adams Richards
| 1950 | | novelist | The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Mercy Among the Children, Nights Below Station Street |
| scope="row" | Evelyn M. Richardson
| 1902 | 1976 | novelist | Desired Haven |
| scope="row" | Jael Richardson
| | | memoirist, playwright | The Stone Thrower |
| scope="row" | John Richardson
| 1796 | 1852 | novelist | Wacousta |
| scope="row" | Robin Richardson
| | | poet | Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Sit How You Want |
| scope="row" | Edward Riche
| 1961 | | novelist, screenwriter | Rare Birds |
| scope="row" | Daniel Richler
| 1957 | | novelist, journalist | Kicking Tomorrow |
| scope="row" | Emma Richler
| 1961 | | novelist, short stories | Sister Crazy, Feed My Dear Dogs |
| scope="row" | Jacob Richler
| | | journalist | |
| scope="row" | Mordecai Richler
| 1931 | 2001 | novelist | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now, Barney's Version |
| scope="row" | Nancy Richler
| 1957 | 2018 | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
| scope="row" | Noah Richler
| | | journalist | This Is My Country, What's Yours?, What We Talk About When We Talk About War |
| scope="row" | Emily Riddle
| | | poet | The Big Melt |
| scope="row" | Tanis Rideout
| | | poet, novelist | Above All Things |
| scope="row" | Sandra Ridley
| | | poet | Silvija, Vixen |
| scope="row" | T. F. Rigelhof
| 1944 | | novelist, memoirist, literary critic | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress |
| scope="row" | Sharon Riis
| 1947 | 2016 | novelist, short stories, screenwriter | The True Story of Ida Johnson, Savage Messiah |
| scope="row" | Ringuet (Phillipe Panneton)
| 1895 | 1960 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Charles Ritchie
| 1906 | 1995 | diarist | An Appetite for Life, The Siren Years |
| scope="row" | Thomas Beattie Roberton
| 1879 | 1936 | journalist, critic | TBR: Newspaper Pieces |
| scope="row" | Charles G.D. Roberts
| 1860 | 1943 | poet, novelist | The Tantramar Revisited, The Iceberg |
| scope="row" | Ken Roberts
| 1946 | | | |
| scope="row" | Paul William Roberts
| 1950 | 2019 | | |
| scope="row" | Bill Robertson
| | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Lisa Robertson
| 1961 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Margaret Murray Robertson
| 1823 | 1897 | novelist | |
| scope="row" | John Daniel Robins
| 1884 | 1952 | humorist | The Incomplete Anglers |
| scope="row" | Eden Robinson
| 1968 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | J. Jill Robinson
| 1955 | | short stories, creative non-fiction | Lovely in Her Bones, Residual Desire |
| scope="row" | Peter Robinson
| 1950 | 2022 | mystery | |
| scope="row" | Marc Robitaille
| | | novels, sports history, film | Histoires d'hiver, Un été sans point ni coup sûr, Il était une fois les Expos |
| scope="row" | Harriet A. Roche
| 1835 | 1921 | pioneer, traveler | On Trek in the Transvaal |
| scope="row" | Ajmer Rode
| | | poet, playwright, translator | |
| scope="row" | Spider Robinson
| 1948 | | science fiction, humorist |
| scope="row" | Grace Dean Rogers
| 1863 | 1958 | Novelist, historian | Stories of the Land of Evangeline |
| scope="row" | Ian Rogers
| 1976 | | supernatural and horror fiction | Every House Is Haunted |
| scope="row" | Linda Rogers
| 1944 | | | |
| scope="row" | Richard Rohmer
| 1924 | | | |
| scope="row" | Mathieu Rolland
| 1989 | | novelist | Souvenir de Night, De grandes personnes |
| scope="row" | Leon Rooke
| 1934 | | novelist | Shakespeare's Dog, A Bolt of White Cloth |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Rachel Rose
| 1970 | | poet | Song and Spectacle |
| scope="row" | Simon Rose
| 1961 | | science fiction and fantasy novelist | The Alchemist's Portrait, Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy |
| scope="row" | Rebecca Rosenblum
| 1978 | | short stories | Once |
| scope="row" | Leonard Rosmarin
| | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Oakland Ross
| 1952 | | journalist, short stories, novelist | Guerrilla Beach, A Fire on the Mountains |
| scope="row" | Sinclair Ross
| 1908 | 1996 | short stories, novelist |
| scope="row" | Stuart Ross
| 1959 | | poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent |
| scope="row" | Nancy-Gay Rotstein
| | | poet, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Jeffrey Round
| | | poet, mysteries | The P-Town Murders, Death in Key West, Lake on the Mountain |
| scope="row" | Andrea Routley
| | | short stories | Jane and the Whales |
| scope="row" | André Roy
| 1944 | | poet, critic | Action writing |
| scope="row" | Matthew J. Royal
| 1863 | 1900 | novelist and playwright | The Isle of the Virgins: A Romance, Aunt Hannah |
| scope="row" | Gabrielle Roy
| 1909 | 1983 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Holley Rubinsky
| 1943 | 2015 | novelist, short stories | At First I Hope For Rescue, Rapid Transits and Other Stores, Beyond This Point |
| scope="row" | Jane Rule
| 1931 | 2007 | novelist | Desert of the Heart |
| scope="row" | Alexei Maxim Russell
| 1976 | | novelist | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective |
| scope="row" | Harley Rustad
| 1985 | | non-fiction author, journalist | Big Lonely Doug, Lost in the Valley of Death |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Ruth
| 1968 | | novelist | Smoke |
| scope="row" | Naben Ruthnum
| | | novelist, non-fiction | Curry: Reading, Eating and Race, Find You in the Dark |
| scope="row" | Garry Ryan
| | | mysteries, historical fiction | The Lucky Elephant Restaurant, Malabarista, Blackbirds |
| scope="row" | George Ryga
| 1932 | 1987 | playwright and novelist |
| scope="row" | Geoff Ryman
| 1951 | | | |
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| scope="col" style="width:15%;"| Name
! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Michelle Sagara
| 1963 | | fantasy | |
| scope="row" | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
| | | playwright | Gas Girls, A Man A Fish |
| scope="row" | Rodney Saint-Éloi
| | | poet | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé |
| scope="row" | Kerri Sakamoto
| 1960 | | novelist | The Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts |
| scope="row" | Mark Sakamoto
| 1977 | | memoirist | Forgiveness |
| scope="row" | Trish Salah
| | | poet | Wanting in Arabic |
| scope="row" | Rebecca Salazar
| | | poet | sulphurtongue |
| scope="row" | G. Herbert Sallans
| 1895 | 1960 | novelist | Little Man |
| scope="row" | Rick Salutin
| 1942 | | columnist, novelist | A Man of Little Faith |
| scope="row" | Laura G. Salverson
| 1890 | 1970 | novelist | The Dark Weaver |
| scope="row" | Liselle Sambury
| | | fantasy, young adult | Blood Like Magic |
| scope="row" | Jacob Sampson
| 1988 | | playwright | Chasing Champions |
| scope="row" | Shelly Sanders
| 1964 | | novelist, journalist | The Rachel Trilogy |
| scope="row" | Susan Sanford Blades
| | | novelist | Fake It So Real |
| scope="row" | Robyn Sarah
| 1949 | | poet, short stories | Promise of Shelter, My Shoes Are Killing Me |
| scope="row" | Mairuth Sarsfield
| 1925 | 2013 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Jocelyne Saucier
| 1948 | | novelist | Il pleuvait des oiseaux |
| scope="row" | John Ralston Saul
| 1947 | | essayist, philosopher | The Unconscious Civilization |
| scope="row" | Gloria Sawai
| 1932 | 2011 | short stories, novelist | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
| scope="row" | Robert J. Sawyer
| 1960 | | science fiction | The Neanderthal Parallax, Calculating God, Flashforward, Rollback |
| scope="row" | Arthur Scaife
| 1855 | 1934 | short stories, novelist, poetry | Three Letters of Credit and Other Stories |
| scope="row" | Dominique Scali
| | | novelist | À la recherche de New Babylon |
| scope="row" | Alan Scarfe
| 1946 | 2024 | novelist | The Revelation of Jack the Ripper, The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez, The Demons of 9/11, The Mask of the Holy Spirit |
| scope="row" | Jacob Scheier
| 1980 | | poet | More to Keep Us Warm |
| scope="row" | Libby Scheier
| 1946 | 2000 | poet, short stories | Kaddish for My Father, Saints & Runners |
| scope="row" | Diane Schoemperlen
| 1954 | | novelist | In the Language of Love, Forms of Devotion |
| scope="row" | Stephen Scobie
| 1943 | | poet | McAlmon's Chinese Opera |
| scope="row" | Anakana Schofield
| 1971 | | novelist | Malarky |
| scope="row" | Adam Lewis Schroeder
| | | novelist, short stories | In the Fabled East |
| scope="row" | Andreas Schroeder
| 1946 | | | |
| scope="row" | Gregory Scofield
| 1966 | | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel |
| scope="row" | Chris Scott
| 1945 | | novelist | Antichthon, Jack |
| scope="row" | Duncan Campbell Scott
| 1862 | 1947 | poet | In the Village of Viger |
| scope="row" | Frank Scott
| 1899 | 1985 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Gail Scott
| 1945 | | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error |
| scope="row" | Jordan Scott
| | | poet | Silt, blert, Night & Ox |
| scope="row" | R.T.M. Scott
| 1882 | 1966 | novelist | Secret Service Smith |
| scope="row" | Richard Scrimger
| | | children's writer, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Jasmine Sealy
| | | novelist, short stories | The Island of Forgetting |
| scope="row" | Djanet Sears
| 1959 | | playwright | The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God |
| scope="row" | Paul Seesequasis
| | | novelist, journalist | Tobacco Wars, Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun |
| scope="row" | Benjamin Sehene
| 1959 | | novelist, essayist, political writer | |
| scope="row" | Sarah Selecky
| 1974 | | short stories |
| scope="row" | Bev Sellars
| | | memoirist | They Called Me Number One |
| scope="row" | Dollard Senécal
|1912 |2002 | | |
| scope="row" | Shyam Selvadurai
| 1965 | | novelist | Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens |
| scope="row" | Bruce Serafin
| | 2007 | creative non-fiction | Stardust |
| scope="row" | Robert W. Service
| 1874 | 1958 | poet |
| scope="row" | Ernest Thompson Seton
| 1860 | 1946 | | |
| scope="row" | Mark Shainblum
| 1963 | | | |
| scope="row" | Lionel Shapiro
| 1908 | 1958 | novelist, journalist | The Sixth Of June, They Left The Back Door Open |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Gaurav Sharma
| 1992 | | novelist, author | God of the Sullied, Gone are the Days, The Indian Story of an Author |
| scope="row" | Sarah Sheard
| 1953 | | | |
| scope="row" | Sheung-King
| | | novelist | You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. |
| scope="row" | Murphy O. Shewchuk
| 1943 | | writer, photographer | Okanagan Trips and Trails, Coquihalla Trips and Trails, Cariboo Trips and Trails |
| scope="row" | Francis Sherman
| 1871 | 1926 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Valerie Sherrard
| 1957 | | children's and young adult literature | The Glory Wind |
| scope="row" | Carol Shields
| 1935 | 2003 | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Erin Shields
| | | playwright | If We Were Birds |
| scope="row" | Aki Shimazaki
| 1954 | | | |
| scope="row" | Ann Shin
| | | poet, novelist, filmmaker | The Last Exiles |
| scope="row" | Adam Shortt
| 1859 | 1931 | historian | Canada and its Provinces, (23 vols) |
| scope="row" | Vivek Shraya
| 1981 | | short stories | God Loves Hair |
| scope="row" | Eric Siblin
| | | journalist, music writer | The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece |
| scope="row" | Maggie Siggins
| 1942 | | historian, biographies | Riel |
| scope="row" | Antanas Sileika
| 1953 | |novels, fiction, essays |Buying on Time, Woman in Bronze, Underground, The Barefoot Bingo Caller |
| scope="row" | Ana Siljak
| | | historian | Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World |
| scope="row" | Makeda Silvera
| 1955 | | | The Heart Does Not Bend |
| scope="row" | Louise Simard
| 1950 | | | |
| scope="row" | Jessie Sime
| 1868 | 1958 | Novelist | Our Little Life |
| scope="row" | Bren Simmers
| 1976 | | poet | Night Gears |
| scope="row" | Merilyn Simonds
| 1949 | | creative non-fiction, novelist, short stories, memoirist | The Convict Lover, The Valour and the Horror, The Paradise Project |
| scope="row" | Colin Simpson
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Bardia Sinaee
| | | poet | Intruder |
| scope="row" | Andy Sinclair
| | | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons |
| scope="row" | Jaspreet Singh
| 1969 | | | |
| scope="row" | Mark Sinnett
| | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore |
| scope="row" | George Sipos
| | | memoirist, poet | The Geography of Arrival, Anything But the Moon |
| scope="row" | Johanna Skibsrud
| 1980 | | novelist, poet |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Josef Skvorecky
| 1924 | 2012 | novelist, essayist | The Engineer of Human Souls |
| scope="row" | Joshua Slocum
| 1844 | 1909 | | |
| scope="row" | Carolyn Smart
| 1952 | | poet | Hooked |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Smart
| 1913 | 1986 | |
| scope="row" | Gwen Smid
| 1979 | | fiction, picture books | Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Ontario |
| scope="row" | Jean Edward Smith
| 1932 | 2019 | | |
| scope="row" | Michael V. Smith
| | | novelist | Cumberland |
| scope="row" | Neil Smith
| 1964 | | short stories | Bang Crunch |
| scope="row" | Russell Smith
| 1963 | | journalist, novelist | How Insensitive, Muriella Pent |
| scope="row" | Carrie Snyder
| | | short stories | Hair Hat, The Juliet Stories |
| scope="row" | Mary Soderstrom
| 1942 | | novelist, short stories, non-fiction | The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond |
| scope="row" | Caro Soles
| | | mystery, science fiction, fantasy, erotica | Drag Queen in the Court of Death |
| scope="row" | Evan Solomon
| 1968 | | journalist, novelist | Crossing the Distance |
| scope="row" | Madeline Sonik
| 1960 | | | |
| scope="row" | J. Dewey Soper
| 1893 | 1982 | naturalist | |
| scope="row" | Carolyn Marie Souaid
| 1959 | | poet, editor | Swimming into the Light, Blood is Blood |
| scope="row" | Gaétan Soucy
| 1958 | 2013 | novelist | L'Immaculée conception, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes |
| scope="row" | Raymond Souster
| 1921 | 2012 | poet | |
| scope="row" | Esta Spalding
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Linda Spalding
| 1943 | | | The Follow,The Purchase |
| scope="row" | Rae Spoon
| | | songwriter, short stories | First Spring Grass Fire |
| scope="row" | Michelle Spring
| 1947 | | sociologist, mystery fiction | Every Breath You Take, Standing in the Shadows, In the Midnight Hour |
| scope="row" | Birk Sproxton
| 1943 | 2007 | | |
| scope="row" | Amy Spurway
| | | novelist | Crow |
| scope="row" | Eva Stachniak
| 1952 | | novelist | Necessary Lies, The Winter Garden |
| scope="row" | Edna Staebler
| 1906 | 2006 | journalist, Mennonite cooking | Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series |
| scope="row" | Ted Staunton
| 1956 | | children's literature, picture books | Puddleman, Who I'm Not, Harry and Clare's Amazing Staycation |
| scope="row" | Robert Stead
| 1880 | 1959 | novelist, poet | Grain |
| scope="row" | John Steffler
| 1947 | | poet, novelist | The Afterlife of George Cartwright |
| scope="row" | Fred Stenson
| 1951 | | | |
| scope="row" | Alexander Maitland Stephen
| 1882 | 1942 | poet, novelist | The Rosary Of Pan, The Kingdom Of The Sun |
| scope="row" | Arran Stephens
| 1944 | | | The Compassionate Diet |
| scope="row" | Angela Sterritt
| | | journalist | Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls' |
| scope="row" | Richard Stevenson
| 1952 | 2023 | | |
| {{Sortname|Robin|Stevenson}}
| | |children's/young adult literature | |
| scope="row" | Shannon Stewart
| | | poet, children's literature | |
| scope="row" | Walter Stewart
| 1941 | 2004 | journalist, editor | |
| scope="row" | Bill Stilwell
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Kathy Stinson
| 1952 | | | |
| scope="row" | John Elizabeth Stintzi
| | | poet, novelist | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat |
| scope="row" | Cassie Stocks
| | | novelist | Dance, Gladys, Dance |
| scope="row" | Aryeh Lev Stollman
| 1954 | | novelist, short stories | The Far Euphrates, The Illuminated Soul |
| scope="row" | Anne Stone
| | | | Indelible |
| scope="row" | Arthur G. Storey
| 1915 | 2005 | novelist | Prairie Harvest |
| scope="row" | Allan Stratton
| 1951 | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
| 1874 | 1950 | screenwriter, novelist | |
| scope="row" | Cordelia Strube
| 1960 | | novelist, dramatist | Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, Lemon |
| scope="row" | Alan Sullivan
| 1868 | 1947 | poet, novelist | Three Came to Ville Marie |
| scope="row" | Moez Surani
| 1979 | | poet | Reticent Bodies |
| scope="row" | Rajiv Surendra
| 1989 | | memoirist | The Elephants in My Backyard |
| scope="row" | Joel A. Sutherland
| 1980 | | novelist, short stories | Frozen Blood |
| scope="row" | David Suzuki
| 1936 | | scientist, writer, environmental activist, television host | The Sacred Balance, Genethics, The Legacy: An Elder's vision for a sustainable future |
| scope="row" | Mary Swan
| 1953 | | novelist, short stories | The Boys in the Trees |
| scope="row" | Susan Swan
| 1945 | | | |
| scope="row" | Anna Swanson
| | | poet | The Nights Also |
| scope="row" | Robert Sward
| 1933 | 2022 | | |
| scope="row" | Margaret Sweatman
| 1953 | | novelist | Fox, The Players |
| scope="row" | George Swede
| 1940 | | | |
| scope="row" | Alastair Sweeny
| 1946 | | | |
| scope="row" | Michael Ernest Sweet
| 1979 | | | poetry, essay, nonfiction |
| scope="row" | Guy Sylvestre
| 1918 | 2010 | journalist, critic | |
| scope="row" | Olivier Sylvestre
| 1982 | | playwright, short stories | La beauté du monde, La loi de la gravité, Noms fictifs |
| scope="row" | Harry L. Symons
| 1892 | 1962 | novelist, humorist | Ojibway Melody |
| scope="row" | Scott Symons
| 1933 | 2009 | novelist, journalist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square |
| scope="row" | Shawn Syms
| 1970 | | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Gillian Sze
| | | poet | Quiet Night Think |
| scope="row" | Anne Szumigalski
| 1922 | 1999 | poet | Voice |
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! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Born ! scope="col" style="width:5%;"| Died ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Genre ! scope="col" style="width:45%;"| Notable works |
|---|
| scope="row" | Tanya Talaga
| | | journalist | Seven Fallen Feathers |
| scope="row" | Kenneth Tam
| 1984 | | novelist | Defense Command, His Majesty's New World, The Champions, Equation Series |
| scope="row" | Mariko Tamaki
| 1975 | | short fiction, plays, graphic novelist | Skim, Fake ID, (You) Set Me on Fire |
| scope="row" | Darcy Tamayose
| | | novelist, short stories | Odori, Ezra's Ghosts |
| scope="row" | Shelley Tanaka
| 1950 | | editor, children's non-fiction | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, On Board the Titanic |
| scope="row" | Jordan Tannahill
| 1988 | | playwright | Bravislovia, rihannaboi95, Late Company |
| scope="row" | Olivia Tapiero
| 1990 | | novelist | Les Murs, Rien du tout |
| scope="row" | Jules-Paul Tardivel
| 1851 | 1905 | | |
| scope="row" | Damian Tarnopolsky
| | | novelist, dramatist, short stories | Goya's Dog, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster |
| scope="row" | Jon Tattrie
| | | non-fiction, journalist | |
| Dennis E. Taylor
| | |novelist, short stories |Bobiverse Series, Outland, The Singularity Trap |
| scope="row" | Gladys Taylor
| 1917 | 2015 | novelist, memoirist, newspaper editor | Pine Roots, The King Tree, Alone in the Australian Outback, Alone in the Boardroom |
| scope="row" | Timothy Taylor
| 1963 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Saeed Teebi
| | | short stories | Her First Palestinian |
| scope="row" | Ningeokuluk Teevee
| 1963 | | children's literature | Alego |
| scope="row" | Wayne Tefs
| 1947 | 2014 | | |
| scope="row" | Richard Teleky
| 1944 | | novelist, poet, short stories, non-fiction | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon |
| scope="row" | Charles Templeton
| 1915 | 2001 | | |
| scope="row" | John Terpstra
| 1953 | | poet | |
| scope="row" | Bill Terry
| | | non-fiction, gardening | Blue Heaven |
| scope="row" | Adeline Margaret Tesky
| 1855 | 1924 | novelist, short stories | Where the Sugar Maple Grows |
| scope="row" | Alex Tétreault
| 1994 | | poet, playwright | Nickel City Fifs, Avert Your Gays |
| scope="row" | Souvankham Thammavongsa
| 1978 | | poet, short stories | Small Arguments, Light, How to Pronounce Knife |
| scope="row" | Yasuko Thanh
| 1971 | | novelist, short stories | Floating Like the Dead |
| scope="row" | France Théoret
| 1942 | | novelist, poet | L'homme qui peignait Staline, Cruauté du jeu |
| scope="row" | Denis Thériault
| 1959 | | | |
| scope="row" | Yves Thériault
| 1915 | 1983 | novelist, short stories | Agaguk, Ashini, Aaron, La Fille laide |
| scope="row" | Sharon Thesen
| 1946 | | poet | The Good Bacteria |
| scope="row" | Serge Patrice Thibodeau
| 1959 | | poet | Le Quatuor de l'errance, La Traversée du désert, Seul on est, Le cycle de Prague |
| scope="row" | Madeleine Thien
| 1974 | | short stories, novelist | Simple Recipes, Certainty, Dogs at the Perimeter |
| scope="row" | Kai Cheng Thom
| 1991 | | novelist, poet | a place called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars |
| scope="row" | Audrey Thomas
| 1935 | | novelist | Songs My Mother Taught Me, Coming Down from Wa |
| scope="row" | Colin Thomas
| 1939 | | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion |
| scope="row" | Joan Thomas
|1949 | | novelist | Reading by Lightning, Curiosity, The Opening Sky, Five Wives |
| scope="row" | Kai Thomas
| | | novelist | In the Upper Country |
| scope="row" | Clayton Thomas-Müller
| | | memoirist | Life in the City of Dirty Water |
| scope="row" | John Thompson
| 1938 | 1976 | | |
| scope="row" | Peggy Thompson
| 1901 | 2009 | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Jan Thornhill
| 1955 | | children's literature, science | I Found a Dead Bird, The Wildlife ABC |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Thornton
| 1940 | 2010 | | |
| scope="row" | Russell Thornton
| 1959 | | poet | House Built of Rain, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain |
| scope="row" | Kim Thúy
| 1968 | | novelist | Ru |
| scope="row" | Matthew Tierney
| 1970 | | poet | Probably Inevitable |
| scope="row" | Sara Tilley
| 1978 | | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke |
| scope="row" | Miriam Toews
| 1964 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Morley Torgov
| 1927 | | | |
| scope="row" | Lola Lemire Tostevin
| | | | |
| scope="row" | Gérald Tougas
| 1933 | 2019 | novelist, short stories | La Mauvaise foi, Le deuxième train de la nuit |
| scope="row" | Paul Toupin
| 1918 | 1993 | playwright, essayist, memoirist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain |
| scope="row" | William Toye
| 1926 | 2024 | author, editor | Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature with Eugene Benson |
| scope="row" | Kaleigh Trace
| 1986 | | writer, sex educator, therapist | Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex |
| scope="row" | Matthew J. Trafford
| | | short stories | The Divinity Gene |
| scope="row" | Michaël Trahan
| 1984 | | poet | Nœud coulant, La raison des fleurs |
| scope="row" | Catharine Parr Traill
| 1802 | 1899 | memoirist | Life in the Backwoods of Canada |
| scope="row" | Rhea Tregebov
| 1953 | | poet | Remembering History |
| scope="row" | Lise Tremblay
| 1957 | | | |
| scope="row" | Michel Tremblay
| 1942 | | playwright |
| scope="row" | Sylvain Trudel
| 1963 | | novelist | |
| scope="row" | Stuart Trueman
| 1911 | 1995 | journalist, humorist, historian | You're Only as Old as You Act |
| scope="row" | Brian Tucker
| | | novelist | Big White Knuckles |
| scope="row" | Aren X. Tulchinsky
| 1958 | | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything, In Her Nature |
| scope="row" | Élise Turcotte
| 1957 | | | |
| scope="row" | Roxane Turcotte
| 1952 | | children's and youth literature writer | Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre |
| scope="row" | Pierre Turgeon
| 1947 | | novelist, historian, essayist, scenarist, journalist, publisher | The First Person, Sweet Poison, Oberon Press 1983 |
| scope="row" | Chris Turner
| 1973 | | non-fiction | Planet Simpson, The Geography of Hope |
| scope="row" | Michael Turner
| 1962 | | novelist, songwriter | American Whiskey Bar, Hard Core Logo |
| scope="row" | Arielle Twist
| | | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate |
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|---|
| scope="row" | Andrew Unger
| 1979 | | novelist, satirist |
| scope="row" | Marie Uguay
| 1955 | 1981 | poet | Signe et rumeur |
| scope="row" | Chimwemwe Undi
| | | poet | Scientific Marvel |
| scope="row" | Priscila Uppal
| 1974 | 2018 | poet, novelist | The Divine Economy of Salvation |
| scope="row" | Emily Urquhart
| 1977 | | non-fiction | Beyond the Pale, Ordinary Wonder Tales, The Age of Creativity |
| scope="row" | Jane Urquhart
| 1949 | | novelist | Away, The Stone Carvers |
| scope="row" | Geoffrey Ursell
| 1943 | 2021 | novelist, playwright, poet | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost, Saskatoon Pie |
| scope="row" | David UU (David W. Harris)
| 1948 | 1994 | visual poet | Chopped Liver |
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|---|
| scope="row" | W. D. Valgardson
| 1939 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories |
| scope="row" | Pierre Vallières
| 1938 | 1998 | political essayist |
| scope="row" | Edo Van Belkom
| 1962 | | horror | Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf |
| scope="row" | Richard Van Camp
| 1971 | | novelist, short stories, children's literature |
| scope="row" | Guy Vanderhaeghe
| 1951 | | novelist, short stories |
| scope="row" | Aritha Van Herk
| 1954 | | novelist | Judith, No Fixed Address |
| scope="row" | Kasia Van Schaik
| | | novelist | We Have Never Lived on Earth |
| scope="row" | A. E. van Vogt
| 1912 | 2000 | science fiction |
| scope="row" | Jean Vanier
| 1928 | 2019 | theologian | Becoming Human |
| scope="row" | Anuja Varghese
| | | short stories | Chrysalis |
| scope="row" | Sugith Varughese
| 1957 | | playwright, film and television | The Postman, Entitlement, Kumar and Mr. Jones |
| scope="row" | M. G. Vassanji
| 1950 | | novelist |
| scope="row" | Caelum Vatnsdal
| 1970 | | film history | They Came From Within, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me |
| scope="row" | R. M. Vaughan
| 1965 | 2020 | novelist, poet | A Quilted Heart, Spells |
| scope="row" | Guillermo Verdecchia
| 1962 | | playwright | Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures |
| scope="row" | Robert Verdun
| | | non-fiction, investigative reporting | The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada |
| scope="row" | Paul Vermeersch
| 1973 | | poet | Burn |
| scope="row" | Katherena Vermette
|1977 | | poet, children's literature | North End Love Songs |
| scope="row" | Nancy Vickers
| 1946 | | novelist, poet | Capharnaum |
| scope="row" | Gilles Vigneault
| 1928 | | poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter | Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé |
| scope="row" | Margaret Visser
| 1940 | | philosopher | The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate |
| scope="row" | Claude Vivier
| 1948 | 1983 | composer, poet, librettist | Kopernikus, Lonely Child, Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire |
| scope="row" | Élisabeth Vonarburg
| 1947 | | science fiction | Chroniques du pays des mères |
| scope="row" | Garth Von Buchholz
| 1968 | | poet, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction | Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems |
| scope="row" | John Voss
| 1858 | 1922 | memoirs | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Caroline Vu
| 1959 | | fiction | Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown |
| scope="row" | Prvoslav Vujcic
| 1960 | | poet, author | Thoughts of a Corpse, Castration of the Wind |
| scope="row" | Dan Vyleta
| 1974 | | novelist, historian | Pavel & I, The Quiet Twin |
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|---|
| scope="row" | Marie Wadden
| | | non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan |
| scope="row" | Tracey Waddleton
| | | short stories | Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious |
| scope="row" | Mark Sweeten Wade
| 1858 | 1929 | historian | The Cariboo Road, The Overlanders of '62 |
| scope="row" | Richard Wagamese
| 1955 | 2017 | novelist | Indian Horse, Medicine Walk |
| scope="row" | Colleen Wagner
| 1949 | | playwright | The Monument |
| scope="row" | Fred Wah
| 1939 | | poet, novelist | Diamond Grill, Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
| scope="row" | David Walker
| 1911 | 1992 | novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
| scope="row" | Joan Walker
| | | novelist | Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure |
| scope="row" | Aimee Wall
| | | novelist | We, Jane |
| scope="row" | Bronwen Wallace
| 1945 | 1989 | poet, short stories | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To |
| scope="row" | Frederick William Wallace
| 1886 | 1958 | journalist, novelist | Wooden Ships and Iron Men |
| scope="row" | William Stewart Wallace
| 1884 | 1970 | historian | The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| scope="row" | Paul A. W. Wallace
| 1891 | 1967 | historian, anthropologist | Indians in Pennsylvania |
| scope="row" | Tom Walmsley
| 1948 | 2025 | novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin |
| scope="row" | Natalie Zina Walschots
| 1983 | | novelist, poet | Hench |
| scope="row" | Matthew Walsh
| | | poet | these are not the potatoes of my youth, Terrarium |
| scope="row" | Eric Walters
| 1957 | | novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run |
| scope="row" | John Leigh Walters
| 1933 | 2023 | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Michelle Wamboldt
| | | novelist | Birth Road |
| scope="row" | Jack Wang
| | | short stories | We Two Alone |
| scope="row" | Russell Wangersky
| | | novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica |
| scope="row" | Ryan Ward
| 1990 | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Sabrina Ward Harrison
| 1975 | | spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open |
| scope="row" | Dianne Warren
| 1950 | | playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water |
| scope="row" | David Watmough
| 1926 | 2017 | playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Sheila Watson
| 1909 | 1998 | novelist | The Double Hook |
| scope="row" | Alison Watt
| 1957 | | creative non-fiction, poet |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | David Weale
| 1942 | | non-fiction, children's literature | The True Meaning of Crumbfest |
| scope="row" | Alison Wearing
| 1967 | | travel | Honeymoon in Purdah |
| scope="row" | Jessica L. Webb
| | | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions |
| scope="row" | Barry Webster
| 1961 | | novels, short stories; magic realism | The Sound of All Flesh, The Lava in My Bones |
| scope="row" | Andrew Wedderburn
| | | novelist | The Milk Chicken Bomb |
| scope="row" | John Weier
| 1949 | | poet | Stand the Sacred Tree |
| scope="row" | Matthew James Weigel
| | | poet | Whitemud Walking |
| scope="row" | Steve Weiner
| 1947 | 2024 | novelist | The Museum of Love |
| scope="row" | William Weintraub
| 1926 | 2017 | | |
| scope="row" | Helen Weinzweig
| 1915 | 2010 | novelist, short stories | Basic Black with Pearls, A View from the Roof |
| scope="row" | Merrily Weisbord
| | | journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror |
| scope="row" | Elizabeth Wellburn
| 1955 | | children's literature | Echoes From the Square |
| scope="row" | Zachariah Wells
| 1976 | | poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
| scope="row" | Andrea Werhun
| | | memoirist | Modern Whore |
| scope="row" | Martin West
| | | novelist, short stories | Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, Long Ride Yellow |
| scope="row" | Andrew Westoll
| | | science, travel, non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Robert Paul Weston
| 1975 | | poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City |
| scope="row" | Michael Wex
| 1954 | | novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
| scope="row" | 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 |
| scope="row" | Dawud Wharnsby
| 1972 | | poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
| scope="row" | Thomas Wharton
| 1963 | | novelist | Salamander, Icefields |
| scope="row" | Sherry White
| | | screenwriter |
| scope="row" | Joshua Whitehead
| | | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed |
| scope="row" | William Whitehead
| 1931 | 2018 | documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
| scope="row" | Douglas Whiteway
| | |novelist, journalist | Father Christmas mysteries, Her Majesty Investigates mysteries, Paul is Dead |
| scope="row" | Zoe Whittall
| 1976 | | | |
| scope="row" | Armin Wiebe
| 1948 | | novelist, playwright | The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Tatsea |
| scope="row" | Rudy Wiebe
| 1934 | | novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many |
| scope="row" | Audrée Wilhelmy
| 1985 | | novelist | Oss, Les Sangs |
| scope="row" | Helen Waldstein Wilkes
| 1936 | | creative non-fiction |
| scope="row" | Elyse Willems
| 1986 | | children's literature | A Night in Halloween House |
| scope="row" | Fred Williams
| 1863 | 1944 | journalism, history | The Canadian Book of Days |
| scope="row" | Jeffery Williams
| 1920 | 2011 | military historian | Byng of Vimy, Far from Home |
| scope="row" | Deborah Willis
| 1982 | | fiction writer | Vanishing, The Dark and Other Love Stories |
| scope="row" | Jenny Heijun Wills
| | | memoirist | Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related |
| scope="row" | Alan R. Wilson
| | | novelist, poet | Before the Flood |
| scope="row" | Anne Elizabeth Wilson
| 1901 | 1946 | poet, short story writer, non-fiction writer | Eager Footsteps |
| scope="row" | Antoine Wilson
| 1971 | | novelist | Panorama City, Mouth to Mouth |
| scope="row" | Douglas Wilson
| 1950 | 1992 | novelist, poet | Labour of Love |
| scope="row" | Eric Wilson
| 1940 | | mysteries | Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books) |
| scope="row" | Ethel Wilson
| 1888 | 1980 | novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
| scope="row" | John Wilson
| 1951 | | historical fiction | Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning |
| scope="row" | Jonathan Wilson
| | | playwright | My Own Private Oshawa, Kilt |
| scope="row" | Robert Charles Wilson
| 1953 | | science fiction | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin |
| scope="row" | Sheri-D Wilson
| 1958 | | poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder |
| scope="row" | Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
| 1983 | | novelist | Small Beauty |
| scope="row" | Carol Windley
| 1947 | | novelist, short stories | Home Schooling |
| scope="row" | Rob Winger
| 1974 | | poet | Muybridge's Horse |
| scope="row" | Nicola Winstanley
| | | children's literature, short stories | How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps, Smoke |
| scope="row" | Kathleen Winter
| 1960 | | novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel |
| scope="row" | Michael Winter
| 1965 | | novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why |
| scope="row" | Kari-Lynn Winters
| 1969 | | children's literature, dramatist |
| scope="row" | Wyndham Wise
| 1947 | | film critic and historian | Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film |
| scope="row" | Adele Wiseman
| 1928 | 1992 | novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
| scope="row" | Christina Wong
| | | novelist, playwright | Denison Avenue |
| scope="row" | Lindsay Wong
| | | memoirist | The Woo Woo |
| scope="row" | Alan Woo
| 1977 | | children's literature, poet, short stories | Maggie's Chopsticks |
| scope="row" | Jaime Woo
| | | non-fiction | Meet Grindr |
| scope="row" | George Woodcock
| 1912 | 1995 | poet, critic | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
| scope="row" | Susan Wood
| 1948 | 1980 | critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | scope="row" | Energumen; criticism |
| scope="row" | Marnie Woodrow
| 1969 | | novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
| scope="row" | Grahame Woods
| 1934 | 2022 | novelist, screenwriter | Bloody Harvest, War Brides, Glory Enough for All |
| scope="row" | Lance Woolaver
| 1948 | | poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange |
| scope="row" | Eric Wright
| 1929 | 2015 | mysteries | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
| scope="row" | J. F. C. Wright
| 1904 | 1970 | journalist, historian | Slava Bohu, Saskatchewan: The History of a Province |
| scope="row" | L. R. Wright
| 1939 | 2001 | mysteries | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
| scope="row" | Richard B. Wright
| 1937 | 2017 | novelist |
| scope="row" | Sarah Wylie
| 1989 | | novelist, young adult literature | All These Lives |
| scope="row" | Tim Wynne-Jones
| 1948 | | novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
| scope="row" | Tim Wynveen
| | | novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |
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| scope="row" | Xiaowen Zeng
| | | journalist, short stories | |
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| scope="row" | Joel Yanofsky
| | | novelist | Jacob's Ladder |
| scope="row" | Pierre Yergeau
| 1957 | | novelist | L'écrivain public |
| scope="row" | Ying Chen
| 1961 | | novelist | L'ingratitude, Immobile |
| scope="row" | Jean Yoon
| 1962 | | poet, playwright | The Yoko Ono Project |
| scope="row" | Alissa York
| 1970 | | novelist, short stories | Effigy |
| scope="row" | Elwy Yost
| 1925 | 2011 | mysteries | White Shadows |
| scope="row" | Graham Yost
| 1959 | | screenwriter | Speed |
| scope="row" | David Young
| 1946 | | novelist, playwright | Inexpressible Island, Glenn |
| scope="row" | d'bi young
| 1977 | | poet, playwright | blood.claat: one womban story |
| scope="row" | Ian Young
| 1945 | | poet, non-fiction, journalist | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature |
| scope="row" | Patricia Young
| 1954 | | poet, short stories | Ruin & Beauty, More Watery Still, Airstream |
| scope="row" | Scott Young
| 1918 | 2005 | biographer, sportswriter, mysteries | A Writer's Life, Murder in a Cold Climate |
| scope="row" | Terence Young
| 1953 | | novelist, poet, short stories | The Island in Winter, Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake's |
| scope="row" | Josée Yvon
| 1950 | 1994 | poet, playwright | Danseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees |
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|---|
| 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 |
| scope="row" | David Zieroth
| 1946 | | poet | How I Joined Humanity at Last, The Fly in Autumn |
| scope="row" | Larry Zolf
| 1934 | 2011 | journalist | Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, Scorpions for Sale |
| scope="row" | Syd Zolf
| 1968 | | poet | Human Resources, Masque |
| scope="row" | Daniel Zomparelli
| | | poet, short stories | Davie Street Translations, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person |
| scope="row" | Carolyn Zonailo
| 1947 | | poet | The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems |
| scope="row" | Jan Zwicky
| 1955 | | poet, essayist | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth |
See also
- List of Canadian poets
- List of Canadian playwrights
- List of Canadian short story writers
- List of Canadian science fiction authors
- List of Canadian historians
- List of Canadian women writers in French
- List of Quebec writers
- List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
- List of famous Canadians
- Lists of authors
Further reading
- {{citation | last = Heath | first =Jeffrey M | year = 1991| title =Profiles in Canadian Literature, Volume 7
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=qmMRJzrllTwC&q=Canadian%20literature&pg=PP1 | publisher=Dundurn Press | isbn=1-55002-145-1 }}
- {{citation | last = Stouck| first =David | year =1988 | title =Major Canadian authors : a critical introduction to Canadian literature in English | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=R3tTsYA5DZ0C&q=Canadian&pg=PP1 | publisher= University of Nebraska Press | isbn=0-8032-4119-4| edition=2nd }}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110103231604/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/writers/index-e.html Introduction - Canadian Writers] - Library and Archives Canada
- [http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca Canadian Writers - Athabasca University]
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