List of Canadian writers

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

A

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Louise Abbott	1950		non-fiction author, photographer, filmmaker	The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence
Jordan Abel			poet, novelist	Empty Spaces, The Place of Scraps
Irving Abella	1940	2022	historian	None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948
Mark Abley	1955		poet, journalist	Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Carolyn Abraham	1968		journalist, non-fiction	Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain, The Juggler's Children: A Journey Into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
Marianne Ackerman	1952		playwright, novelist, journalist
Janice Acoose	1954	2020	journalist	Iskwewak Kah Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak
Milton Acorn	1923	1986	poet	The Island Means Minago
José Acquelin	1956		poet	Anarchie de la lumière, L'Oiseau respirable
Ken Adachi	1929	1989	historian, critic	The Enemy That Never Was
Barry D. Adam	1952		sociologist
Evan Adams	1966		dramatist	Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River
Ian Adams	1937	2021	novelist, non-fiction	Agent of Influence
Mary Electa Adams	1823	1898	poet	From Distant Shores
Gil Adamson	1961		novelist, short stories, poet	The Outlander
Caroline Adderson	1963		novelist, short stories	Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler			horror	Wrist, Ghost Lake
Marie-Célie Agnant	1953		poet, novelist	Le Silence comme le sang
Freda Ahenakew	1932	2011	linguist, children's literature
Jean Marc Ah-Sen			novelist, short stories	Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration in Four Parts
Kate Aitken	1891	1971	journalist, cooking enthusiast	Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book
Kelley Aitken	1954		short stories	Love in a Warm Climate
Will Aitken	1949		novelist, journalist	Terre Haute, Realia
Donald Akenson	1941		novelist, historian
Don Aker	1955		novelist, educator	Of Things Not Seen, The First Stone
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm	1965		poet	My Heart is a Stray Bullet
Omar El Akkad	1982		novelist	American War, What Strange Paradise
Linda Aksomitis	1954		children's literature	Adeline's Dream
Kamal Al-Solaylee	1964		journalist	Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Donald Alarie	1945		poet	Jérôme et les mots
Robert Arthur Alexie	1957	2014	novelist	Porcupines and China Dolls, The Pale Indian
André Alexis	1957		novelist, journalist, short stories	Childhood, Asylum, Pastoral
Edna Alford	1947		poet
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali	1985		memoirist	Angry Queer Somali Boy
Nada Alic	1986		short stories	Bad Thoughts
Sandra Alland	1973		poet, journalist
Donna Allard	1956		poet
Charlotte Vale Allen	1941	2023	romantic novels, expert on child abuse
Grant Allen	1848	1899	science writer, novelist	The Woman Who Did
Harper Allen			romantic fiction
Lillian Allen	1951		poet	Rhythm an' Hardtimes
Ralph Allen	1913	1966	novelist, journalist	Peace River Country
Robert Thomas Allen	1911	1990	humorist, children's literature	The Grass Is Never Greener, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life
Tom Allen	1964		creative non-fiction	Rolling Home
Paul Almond	1931	2015	novelist, screenwriter
Anne-Marie Alonzo	1951	2005	poet	Bleus de mine
Lisa Alward	1962		short stories	Cocktail
George Amabile	1936		poet
William Lacey Amy	1877	1962	writer	Blue Pete series
Anahareo	1906	1986	autobiographer	Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl
Marguerite Andersen	1924	2022	poet	Courts métrages et instantanés
Debra Anderson			novelist, playwright	Code White
Doris Anderson	1921	2007	journalist	The Unfinished Revolution, Rebel Daughter
Enza Anderson	1964		journalist
Gordon Stewart Anderson	1958	1991	novelist	The Toronto You Are Leaving
Hugh Anderson	1890	1965	playwright	Auld Lang Syne
James Anderson	1835	1922	poet and songwriter	Sawney's Letters
Patrick Anderson	1915	1979	poet
Rod Anderson	1935		poet, accounting texts
Trevor Anderson	1972		screenwriter
Gail Anderson-Dargatz	1963		novelist	The Cure for Death by Lightning
Maryse Andraos	1988		novelist	Sans refuge
Michael Andre	1946		poet
François-Réal Angers	1812	1860	legal texts	Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada
Vincent Anioke			short stories	Perfect Little Angels
Trey Anthony	1974		playwright	Da Kink in My Hair
Salvatore Antonio	1976		playwright	In Gabriel's Kitchen
Marianne Apostolides			novelist, memoirist	Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure
Lisa Appignanesi	1946		novelist, biographer	Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir
Emmanuel Aquin	1968		novelist
Hubert Aquin	1929	1977	novelist	Prochain épisode
Nelly Arcan	1973	2009	novelist	Putain
Gilles Archambault	1933		novelist	L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions
Bert Archer	1968		journalist, essayist	The End of Gay
Richard Arès	1910	1989
Faith Arkorful			poet	The Seventh Town of Ghosts
Tammy Armstrong	1974		novelist, poet	Bogman's Music
Jeannette Armstrong	1948		novelist, poet	Slash
Kelley Armstrong	1968		horror fiction	Women of the Otherworld
Rebecca Agatha Armour	1845	1891	novelist, local historian	Lady Rosamond's Secret. A Romance of Fredericton
David Arnason	1940		poet, novelist, historian	The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg
Daniel Arnold			playwright, screenwriter	Lawrence & Holloman, Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Joanne Arnott	1960		poet, children's literature	Wiles of Girlhood
Lawrence Aronovitch	1974		playwright
Nina Arsenault	1974
Ryad Assani-Razaki	1981		novels, short stories	Deux cercles, La main d'Iman
Bernard Assiniwi	1935	2000	novelist, essayist, journalist	La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde
Damien Atkins	1975		playwright	Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project
Diana Atkinson	1964		novelist	Highways and Dancehalls
Margaret Atwood	1939		novelist, poet, critic	The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Surfacing
Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé	1814	1841	novelist	L'influence d'un livre
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé	1786	1871	novelist, memoirist
Aude	1947	2012	novelist, short stories	Cet imperceptible mouvement
Jean-Paul Audet	1918	1993	theologian
Noël Audet	1938	2005	poet, novelist	Ah, l'amour l'amour, L'Ombre de l'épervier
Larry Audlaluk	1953		memoirist	What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile
Ashley Audrain	1982		novelist
Emily Austin			novelist, poet	Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space
Jonathan Auxier	1981		young adult literature	The Night Gardener
François Avard	1968		screenwriter	Les Bougon
Susan Avingaq	1942		screenwriter, children's literature	Before Tomorrow, Fishing with Grandma, The Pencil
Margaret Avison	1918	2007	poet	The Winter Sun, Concrete and Wild Carrot
Mona Awad	1978		novelist, short stories	13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Edem Awumey	1975		novelist	Port-Mélo, Les Pieds sales
Makram Ayache	1990		playwright	Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
Malcolm Azania	1969		science fiction	The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Caroline Azar			playwright	The Surreal Detective

B

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Todd Babiak			novelist	The Garneau Block
Ken Babstock	1970		poet	Mean, Airstream Land Yacht
Mette Bach			novelist, screenwriter
Elizabeth Bachinsky	1976		poet
Aaron Badgley	1964		non-fiction, biographer	Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label
Britta Badour			poet	Wires That Sputter
Bruce Bagemihl	1962		science	Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Valérie Bah			novelist, short stories	Subterrane, The Rage Letters
Samantha M. Bailey			novelist	Woman on the Edge, Watch Out for Her
Pierre Baillargeon	1916	1967	novelist	Le scandale est nécessaire
Martha Baillie	1960		novelist	The Incident Report
Irene Baird	1901	1981	novelist, poetry, journalist	Waste Heritage
Jacqueline Baker	1967		novelist, short stories	A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours
R. Scott Bakker	1967		fantasy	Prince of Nothing
Sharon Bala	1979		novelist, short stories	The Boat People
Shauna Singh Baldwin	1962		novelist	What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw
John Ballem	1925	2010	novelist
Winifred Bambrick	1892	1969	novelist	Continental Revue
Catherine Banks	c.1960		playwright	Bone Cage
Himani Bannerji	1942		poet, academic	Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism
Kaushalya Bannerji			poet
Gary Bannerman	1947	2011	non-fiction	Squandering Billions
Nick Bantock	1949		novelist	Griffin and Sabine
Simina Banu			poet	Pop, I Will Get Up Off Of
Marius Barbeau	1883	1969	academic, folklorist
Raymond Barbeau	1930	1992	essayist, literary critic
Victor Barbeau	1896	1994
Bruce Barber	1950		art critic	Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State
Joan Barfoot	1946		novelist	Dancing in the Dark, Luck
Keith Barker			playwright	The Hours That Remain, This Is How We Got Here
Leslie Gordon Barnard	1890	1961	short stories, fiction
Robert Barr	1849	1912	novelist, short stories, humorist	The Measure of the Rule, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Laurent Barré	1886	1964	novelist
Joelle Barron			poet	Ritual Lights
James Bartleman	1939	2023	memoirist, young adult literature	Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, As Long as the Rivers Flow
John Barton	1957		poet	Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis
Gary Barwin	1964		novelist, children's literature, poet	Seeing Stars
Earl W. Bascom	1906	1995	cowboy historian	The History of Rodeo Bareback Bronc Riding
Rodrigo Bascunan	1976		non-fiction	Enter The Babylon System
Jean Basile	1932	1992	novelist, essayist	La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk
Michel Basilières	1960		novelist	Black Bird
Gurjinder Basran	1972		novelist	Everything Was Good-bye
Karen Bass	1962		young adult fiction	Graffiti Knight
Frédéric Bastien	1972		historian, journalist	La Bataille de Londres
Arjun Basu			novelist, short stories	Squishy, Waiting for the Man
Andrew Battershill			novelist	Pillow
Claire Battershill			short stories	Circus
Bill Bauer	1932	2010	poet	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Nancy Bauer	1934		arts journalist	Flora, Write This Down
Jeremy Bates	1978		novelist	Suicide Forest
Eli Baxter	1954		memoirist	Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
Joan Baxter			journalist, non-fiction	A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal
Kevin Bazzana	1963		music historian	Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Tara Beagan	1975		playwright	Thy Neighbour's Wife, Deer Woman, The Ministry of Grace
Yves Beauchemin	1941		novelist	Juliette Pomerleau, Le Matou
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	1945	2025	novelist, playwright
Doug Beardsley	1941		poet	Dancing Star
Jeann Beattie	1922	2005	novelist, journalist	Blaze of Noon, Behold the Hour, And the Tiger Leaps
Deni Ellis Béchard	1974		novelist	Vandal Love
Peter Behrens	1954		novelist, screenwriter, short stories	The Law of Dreams
Henry Beissel	1929	2025	non-fiction, playwright, poet, short fiction, translator	Under Coyote's Eye
Jennifer Bélanger	1991		novelist	Menthol
Billy-Ray Belcourt			poet, memoirist	This Wound Is a World, A History of My Brief Body
Ken Belford	1946	2020	poet	Pathways into the Mountains
Donald Bell	1937	2003	journalist, humorist	Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory
William E. Bell	1945	2016	children's literature	Forbidden City
Winthrop Pickard Bell	1884	1965	historian	The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia
Lesley Belleau			poet	Indianland
Martin Bellemare			playwright	Le chant de Georges Boivin, Cœur minéral
Paul Bellini	1959		screenwriter, comedy
John Bemrose	1947		journalist, novelist, playwright, poet	The Island Walkers
Gwen Benaway			poet	Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage
Djemila Benhabib	1972		journalist, non-fiction	Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
Nigel Bennett	1949		fantasy novelist	Keeper of the King, His Father's Son
Roxanna Bennett			poet	Unmeaningable
Sylvie Bérard	1965		novelist, short stories, translator	Terre des autres, La Saga d'Illyge
David Bergen	1957		novelist	The Time in Between, A Year of Lesser
Bear Bergman">Bear (novel)">Bear Bergman	1974		playwright, poet
David Berman	1962		non-fiction	Do Good Design
Christophe Bernard	1982		novelist	La bête creuse
Jovette Bernier	1900	1981	journalist, novelist, poet	Non Monsieur
Sarah Bernstein	1987		novelist	Study for Obedience
Kris Bertin			short stories	Bad Things Happen
Pierre Berton	1920	2004	historian, journalist, memoirist	The National Dream, The Last Spike
Dennison Berwick	1956		adventure travel	Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami, A Walk Along The Ganges
Gérard Bessette	1920	2005	novelist	Le libraire, Le Cycle
H. S. Bhabra	1955	2000	novelist	The Adversary, Bad Money
Kirti Bhadresa			short stories	An Astonishment of Stars
Navtej Bharati			poet, publisher, Third Eye Press	Leela
Shashi Bhat			novelist, short stories	The Family Took Shape, The Most Precious Substance on Earth
Dave Bidini	1963		journalist, non-fiction, songwriter	Around the World in 57½ Gigs, Tropic of Hockey
Anthony Bidulka	1962		mysteries	Flight of Aquavit, Sundowner Ubuntu
Ingraham Ebenezer Bill	1805	1891	historian, journalist, minister
Nicolas Billon	1978		playwright, screenwriter	The Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher
Pierre Billon	1937		novelist, screenwriter
Brandi Bird			poet	The All + Flesh
Will R. Bird	1891	1984	novelist, non-fiction	Here Stays Good Yorkshire, Judgment Glen
Sandra Birdsell	1942		novelist, short stories	The Rüsslander, The Two-Headed Calf
Earle Birney	1904	1995	poet, novelist, playwright, short stories	David and Other Poems, Turvey
Charlotte Biron	1990		novelist	Jardin radio
Carol Bishop-Gwyn			biographer, arts journalist	The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
Bill Bissett	1939		experimental poet	nobody owns th earth
Lise Bissonnette	1945		novelist, journalist	Marie suivait l'été, Choses crus
Neil Bissoondath	1955		novelist	A Casual Brutality, Selling Illusions
Persimmon Blackbridge	1951		non-fiction, novelist	Prozac Highway
George G. Blackburn	1917	2006	creative non-fiction	The Guns of Normandy
Marthe Blackburn	1916	1991	screenwriter, dramatist	A Scream from Silence, Beyond Forty, Le retour de l’âge
Peggy Blair			non-fiction, novelist	Lament for a First Nation, The Beggar's Opera
Marie-Claire Blais	1939	2021	novelist, playwright, poet	Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, La Belle Bête
Clark Blaise	1940		novelist, short stories, memoirist	Lunar Attractions, Montreal Stories
Cassandra Blanchard			poet	Fresh Pack of Smokes
Robin Blaser	1925	2009	essayist, poet
Christie Blatchford	1951	2020	journalist, writer and broadcaster	Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Lance Blomgren	1970		short stories, essays	Walkups, Corner Pieces
Patricia Blondal	1926	1959	fiction, poet	A Candle to Light the Sun
Lise Blouin	1944		novelist	L'Ors des fous
Michael Blouin	1960		novelist, poet	Chase and Haven, Wore Down Trust
Martha Blum	1913	2007	historical fiction	The Walnut Tree, The Apothecary
Giles Blunt	1952		mysteries, screenwriter	Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season
Ali Blythe			poet	Twoism, Hymnswitch, Stedfast
Selina Boan			poet	Undoing Hours
Adam Bock	1961		playwright	The Receptionist, The Drunken City
Dennis Bock	1964		novelist, short stories	The Ash Garden
Maxime Raymond Bock	1981		novelist, short stories	Atavismes, Les noyades secondaires
Michel Bock	1971		historian, non-fiction	Quand la nation débordait les frontières
Andrew Boden			novelist, short stories	When We Were Ashes, The Secret History of My Hometown
Fred Bodsworth	1918	2012	journalist, naturalist	The Last of the Curlews
Alice Boissonneau	1918	2007	novelist, short stories, poetry, memoirs	Eileen McCullough, There Will Be Gardens
Christian Bök	1966		poet	Eunoia
Stephanie Bolster	1969		poet	White Stone: The Alice Poems
Carol Bolt	1941	2000	playwright	Buffalo Jump, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists
Kenneth Bonert	1972		novelist, short stories	The Lion Seeker
Shane Book			poet	Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic
Walter Borden	1942		playwright, poet
Kathryn Borel	1979		memoirist	Corked
Roo Borson	1952		poet	Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
Monique Bosco	1927	2007	journalist, novelist, poet, short stories	La femme de Loth
Gérard Bouchard	1943		non-fiction, novelist	Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde
Michel Marc Bouchard	1958		playwright	Lilies, The Orphan Muses
Paul Bouchard	1908	1997	journalist
Eddy Boudel Tan			novelist	After Elias, The Rebellious Tide
Marsha Boulton	1952		humorist, journalist	Letters from the Country
Hédi Bouraoui	1932		poet, novelist	Vésuviade, La Femme d'entre les lignes
Pierre Bourgault	1934	2003	essayist, journalist
Arthur Bourinot	1893	1969	poet	Under the Sun
Pan Bouyoucas	1946		novelist, playwright, poet	The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea
Gail Bowen	1942		novelist, playwright	Joanne Kilbourn series
George Bowering	1935		biographer, novelist, poet	The Gangs of Kosmos, Burning Water
Marilyn Bowering	1949		poet, novelist, playwright	Visible Worlds, Autobiography
Cedar Bowers			novelist, short stories	Astra
Bonnie Bowman			novelist	Skin
Randy Boyagoda	1976		novelist, non-fiction	Governor of the Northern Province
David Boyd	1951		children's literature	Bottom Drawer
George Boyd	1952	2020	playwright, screenwriter	Consecrated Ground
Joseph Boyden	1966		novelist, short stories	Three Day Road, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda
Frances Boyle			poet, short stories	Seeking Shade
Harry J. Boyle	1915	2005	humorist, novelist	Homebrew and Patches, Luck of the Irish
D. M. Bradford			poet	Dream of No One But Myself
Karleen Bradford	1936		children's literature	There Will Be Wolves
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite	1963	2008	essayist, novelist, poet
Max Braithwaite	1911	1995	novelist, non-fiction	The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
Shannon Bramer	1973		poet	The Refrigerator Memory
Alan Bradley	1938		mystery	Flavia de Luce series
Dionne Brand	1953		essayist, novelist, poet	What We All Long For, Land to Light On
Di Brandt	1952		poet, literary critic	Jerusalem, beloved, Now You Care
Beth Brant	1941	2015
André Brassard	1946	2022	screenwriter	Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard
Marie Brassard			playwright
Jacques Brault	1933	2022	poet, translator	Quand nous serons heureux, Il n'y a plus de chemin
Lois Braun	1949		short stories	A Stone Watermelon
Morwyn Brebner			playwright, television writer	Music for Contortionist, The Optimist, Saving Hope, Rookie Blue
Binnie Brennan			fiction	Harbour View
Brian Brett	1950	2024	novelist, memoirist, poet	Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden
Krista Bridge			novelist, short stories	The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls
Robert Bringhurst	1946		poet, author, typographer	The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major
Barry Broadfoot	1926	2003	historian	Six War Years, The Immigrant Years
Hélène Brodeur	1923	2010	historical fiction	Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario
Eve Brodlique	1867	1949	author, journalist	A Training School for Lovers
David Bromige	1933	2009	poet	My Poetry
Frances Brooke	1724	1789	novelist, essayist	The History of Emily Montague
Bertram Brooker	1888	1955	novelist, artist	Think of the Earth
Carellin Brooks			novelist, non-fiction	One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach
Nicole Brossard	1943		novelist, poet	Double impression, Méchanique jongleuse
Chrystine Brouillet	1958		novelist, children's literature
Sigmund Brouwer	1959		children's literature	Watch Out for Joel!
Ian Brown	1954		journalist	Man Overboard, The Boy in the Moon
Loranne Brown	1955		novelist, short stories	The Handless Maiden
William J. Bruce III	1980		author	Penholder, Introduction for 150th Anniversary Edition of Demons
Charles Tory Bruce	1906	1971	poet, novelist, journalist	The Mulgrave Road
Julie Bruck	1957		poet	The Woman Downstairs, Monkey Ranch
Tyler Brûlé	1968		journalist
Gaétan Brulotte	1945		academic, novelist, playwright, short stories
Nick Brune	1952		historian	Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture
Carol Bruneau	1956		novelist	Purple for Sky
Louis-Ovide Brunet	1826	1876	botany
Michel Brunet	1917	1985	historian	Les Canadiens après la conquête
Cathy Marie Buchanan	1963		novelist	The Day the Falls Stood Still, The Painted Girls
Ernest Buckler	1908	1984	novelist	The Mountain and the Valley
Margaret Buffie	1945		children's literature	Who Is Frances Rain?, The Dark Garden, The Watcher
Gilbert Buote	1833	1904	journalist
Kayt Burgess			novelist	Heidegger Stairwell
Tony Burgess	1959		novelist, screenwriter	Pontypool Changes Everything
Nathan Burgoine			novelist, short stories	Light
Ronnie Burkett	1957		playwright	Tinka's New Dress
Mabel Burkholder	1881	1973	historian	Before the white man came: Indian legends and stories
Bonnie Burnard	1945	2017	novelist	A Good House
Murdoch Burnett	1953	2015	poet	Centre of the World: A Plains Journey, We Are Not Romans
Richard Burnett			journalist
Lawrence J. Burpee	1873	1946	historian	The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History
Mick Burrs	1940	2021	poet	Variations on the Birth of Jacob
Frank Christopher Busch	1978		novelist	Grey Eyes
Catherine Bush	1961		novelist	Minus Time, The Rules of Engagement
Arthur de Bussières	1877	1913	poet	Les Bengalis
Sharon Butala	1940		novelist	The Perfection of the Morning
Alec Butler	1959		playwright	Black Friday
Michelle Butler Hallett	1971		novelist, short stories, non-fiction	This Marlowe, Constant Nobody
Jake Byrne			poet	Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin, DADDY

C

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Charmaine Cadeau			poet
Heather Cadsby			poet
Cody Caetano			memoirist	Half-Bads in White Regalia
Frank Oliver Call	1878	1956	poet, travel	Acanthus and Wild Grape, Sonnets for Youth
Barry Callaghan	1937		novelist, journalist	Barrelhouse Kings
Morley Callaghan	1903	1990	novelist, short stories	A Fine and Private Place
Anne Cameron	1938	2022	novelist, poet, short stories	Daughters of Copper Woman
Elspeth Cameron	1943		biographer	No Previous Experience
George Frederick Cameron	1854	1885	poet, lawyer, journalist	Leo, the Royal Cadet
Silver Donald Cameron	1937	2020	non-fiction, fiction, drama, journalist	Sailing Away From Winter
Curtis Campbell			playwright	Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Grace Campbell	1895	1963	novelist	Thorn-apple Tree
Morgan Campbell	1976		sportswriter, memoirist	My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us
Nicola I. Campbell			poetry, children's literature, memoir	Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi's Canoe
Bridget Canning			novelist	The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
Natalee Caple	1970		novelist	The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World
Pat Capponi	1949	2020	memoirist, mystery novelist	Upstairs in the Crazy House
Cliff Cardinal			playwright	The Land Acknowledgement
Opal Carew	1956		romantic novelist	His To Possess
Dave Carley	1953		playwright	Writing With Our Feet
Louis Carmain	1983		novelist	Guano
Bliss Carman	1861	1929	poet	Low Tide on Grand Pré
Jean-François Caron	1978		poet, novelist	De bois debout
Louis Caron	1942		novelist, television	L'Emmitouflé, Le Canard de bois, La Corne de brume
David Carpenter	1941		novelist, poet, essayist	A Hunter's Confession
Charlene Carr			novelist	Hold My Girl, We Rip the World Apart
Emily Carr	1871	1945	novelist, short stories	Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, Hundreds and Thousands
Roch Carrier	1937		novelist, short stories	La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Le chandail de hockey
Anne Carson	1950		poet	Autobiography of Red
Anne Laurel Carter	1953		children's fiction	The Shepherd's Granddaughter
Allan Casey			non-fiction	Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Kate Cayley			novelist, dramatist, poet	How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova
Denys Chabot	1945	2025	novelist, historian	L'Eldorado dans les glaces, La Province lunaire
Sébastien Chabot	1976		novelist	Noir métal
Éric Chacour	1983		novelist	Ce que je sais de toi
Perry Chafe	1969		television writer, novelist	Republic of Doyle, Closer by Sea
Robert Chafe	1971		playwright	Afterimage, Tempting Providence
Soufiane Chakkouche	1977		novelist	Zahra
Francis Chalifour	1977		creative non-fiction	After
Phil Champagne			technology writer	The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Gillian Chan	1954		children's literature	Glory Days and Other Stories
Robert Charbonneau	1911	1967	novelist	Ils posséderont la terre, Fontile
David Chariandy	1969		novelist	Soucouyant, Brother
Lyne Charlebois			screenwriter	Borderline
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix	1682	1761	historian	Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France
Normand Chaurette	1954	2022	playwright	Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j'avais 19 ans, Le Passage de l'Indiana, Ce qui meurt en dernier
Évelyne de la Chenelière	1975		playwright, novelist	Désordre public, Bashir Lazhar
Herménégilde Chiasson	1946		poet, playwright	Conversations
Philip Child	1898	1978	novelist	Day of Wrath, Mr. Ames Against Time
Anne Chislett	1942		playwright	Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box
Ann Y. K. Choi			author	Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
Ins Choi	1974		playwright	Kim's Convenience
Gabriel Cholette			memoirist	Carnets de l'underground
Corinna Chong			novelist, short stories	Bad Land
Denise Chong	1953		memoirist	The Concubine's Children
Kevin Chong	1975		novelist, memoirist	My Year of the Racehorse, Neil Young Nation, Beauty plus Pity
Wayson Choy	1939	2019	novelist, memoirist	The Jade Peony, All That Matters, Paper Shadows
Lesley Choyce	1951		poet, novelist, non-fiction	The Republic of Nothing
Michael Christie			short stories	The Beggar's Garden; If I Fall, If I Die
Jane Christmas	1954		travel, memoirist	And Then There Were Nuns
S. D. Chrostowska			novelist, non-fiction, aphorist	Permission, The Eyelid, Matches: A Light Book
Eliza Clark	1963		novelist	Bite the Stars
Greg Clark	1892	1977	humorist	War Stories
Joan Clark	1934	2023	novelist	Latitudes of Melt, The Hand of Robin Squires
Austin Clarke	1934	2016	novelist	The Polished Hoe, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
George Elliott Clarke	1960		poet, novelist, dramatist	Whylah Falls, George and Rue, Black
Stéfanie Clermont	1988		novelist	Le jeu de la musique
David Clerson	1978		novelist	Frères, En rampant, Dormir sans tête
Mabel Clint	1874	1939	novelist, nurse	Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister
Fabien Cloutier	1976		dramatist	Pour réussir un poulet
Lynn Coady	1970		novelist	Saints of Big Harbour, Strange Heaven, Hellgoing
Mark Coakley			true crime	Tip and Trade
Joanna Cockerline			novelist, short stories	Still
Devon Code			novelist, short stories	In a Mist, Involuntary Bliss, Disintegration in Four Parts
Lisa Codrington			playwright	Cast Iron, Up the Garden Path
Fred Cogswell	1917	2004	poet
Leonard Cohen	1934	2016	poet, novelist, singer-songwriter	Beautiful Losers
Matt Cohen	1942	1999	novelist	Emotional Arithmetic, Elizabeth and After
Susan G. Cole	1952		journalist	Pornography and the Sex Crisis, Power Surge: Sex Violence and Pornography
Trevor Cole	1960		novelist	The Fearsome Particles, Practical Jean
Anne Coleman			creative non-fiction	I'll Tell You a Secret
Layne Coleman			playwright	Blue City Slammers
Victor Coleman	1944		poet
Don Coles	1927	2017	poet	Forests of the Medieval World
Ruth Collie	1888	1936	poet	Known as the Poem a Day Lady
John Robert Colombo	1936		poet, reference book compiler	Colombo's Canadian Quotations, Colombo's Canadian References
Daria Colonna	1989		poet	Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle, La Voleuse
Wayde Compton	1972		poet, essays, short fiction
Bill Conall			novelist, humorist	The Promised Land
Christy Ann Conlin			novelist, short stories	Heave, The Memento, Watermark
Jan Conn	1952		poet, insect geneticist	South of the Tudo Bem Cafe
Karen Connelly	1969		travel, novelist, poet	Touch the Dragon, The Lizard Cage
Kevin Connolly	1962		poet, editor	Drift, Revolver
Ralph Connor	1860	1937	novelist, essayist	The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days, The Sky Pilot
Darla Contois			playwright	The War Being Waged
George Ramsay Cook	1931	2016	historian
Hugh Cook	1942		novelist
Michael Cook	1933	1994	playwright	Jacob's Wake
Tim Cook	1971		military historian	Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918, No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
Dennis Cooley	1944		poet	Irene
Beverley Cooper			playwright	Thin Ice, Innocence Lost
Douglas Cooper	1960		novelist	Amnesia, Delirium
Paige Cooper			short stories	Zolitude
Ann Copeland	1932		short stories	The Golden Thread
Judith Copithorne	1939	2025	poet
Carole Corbeil	1952	2000	novelist, journalist	Voice-Over, In the Wings
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman	1985		playwright	Scratch
Amanda Cordner			playwright	Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses
David Cormican	1981		screenwriter, producer	Northern Rescue, Réveillon
Michael Cormican	1948	2023	author, politician, social worker, registered psychiatric nurse	A Long Way From Tipperary
Thomas B. Costain	1885	1965	historical fiction, non-fiction	Below the Salt, Ride with Me, The Black Rose, The Silver Chalice
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave	1890	1971	non-fiction	Afterthoughts of Armageddon
Douglas Coupland	1961		novelist	Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
Kevin Courrier	1954	2018	biographer, music and film critic	Randy Newman's American Dreams, Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream
Maya Cousineau Mollen	1975		poet	Bréviaire du matricule 082, Enfants du lichen
Christa Couture			memoirist	How to Lose Everything
Saros Cowasjee	1931	2019	novelist	Goodbye to Elsa
Hugh Cowan	1867	1943	historian	Ontario and the Detroit Frontier 1701–1814
James Alexander Cowan	1901	1978	writer, columnist
Daniel Allen Cox	1976		novelist	Shuck, Tattoo This Madness In
Ivan Coyote	1969		spoken-word poet, columnist	Bow Grip
Archie Crail	1944		playwright, short stories	Exile, The Bonus Deal
Isabella Valancy Crawford	1846	1887	poet, freelance	Old Spookses' Pass
Donald Creighton	1902	1979	historian	John A. Macdonald
Luella Creighton	1901	1996	historical fiction, children's non-fiction	High Bright Buggy Wheels
Octave Crémazie	1827	1879	poet
Lesley Crewe	1955			The Spoon Stealer
Eva Crocker			short stories	Barrelling Forward
Lynn Crosbie	1963		poet, novelist	Life Is About Losing Everything
Caleigh Crow			playwright	There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Lorna Crozier	1948		poet	Inventing the Hawk, Everything Arrives at the Light
Michael Crummey	1965		poet, novelist, non-fiction	Galore, Sweetland, Hard Light, River Thieves, The Innocents
Nancy Jo Cullen			poet, short stories	Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, Canary
Alan Cumyn	1960		novelist	The Secret Life of Owen Skye, Dear Sylvia
Peter Cureton	1965	1994	playwright	Passages
Oisin Curran			novelist	Blood Fable
Andrea Curtis			creative non-fiction	Into the Blue
Herb Curtis	1949		novelist, humorist	The Last Tasmanian, Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Kayla Czaga	1989		poet	For Your Safety Please Hold On

D

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Antonio D'Alfonso	1953		poet, novelist, bilingual writer	The Other Shore, L'autre rivage, Fabrizio's Passion, Un vendredi du mois d'aout
Michel Dallaire	1957	2017	novelist, poet	Violoncelle pour une lune d’automne
Roméo Dallaire	1946		documentarian, memoirist, activist	Shake Hands with the Devil, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
Anne Dandurand	1953		novelist
Louis Dantin	1865	1945	poet, critic	Le Coffret de Crusoé, Gloses critiques
Jean-Paul Daoust	1946		poet, novelist, short stories	Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva
Peter Darbyshire			novelist	Please
Jill Daum			playwright	Forget About Tomorrow
Frank Davey	1940		poet
Craig Davidson	1976		novelist, short stories	Rust and Bone, Cataract City
True Davidson	1901	1978	poet, fiction, non-fiction	The Golden Strings
Blodwen Davies	1897	1966	historian	A Study of Tom Thomson
Lynn Davies	1954		poet	The Bridge That Carries the Road, Where Sound Pools
Robertson Davies	1913	1995	novelist	Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone
Lauren B. Davis	1955		novelist, short stories	Our Daily Bread, The Grimoire of Kensington Market
Nicola Davison			novelist	In the Wake, Decoding Dot Grey
Amber Dawn			novelist, anthologist	Sub Rosa
Caroline Dawson	1979	2024	novelist, poet, children's literature	Là où je me terre
Joan Dawson			historian
Nicholas Dawson	1982		novelist, poet, non-fiction	Désormais, ma demeure
Frank Parker Day	1881	1950	novelist	Rockbound, John Paul's Rock
Claire Dé	1953		novelist, short stories	Bonjour, oiseau rare, Le désir comme catastrophe naturel
Alfred Duclos DeCelles	1843	1925	journalist, librarian	The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion
Mazo de la Roche	1879	1961	novelist	Jalna
Charles de Lint	1951		fantasy
Elisabeth de Mariaffi			short stories, poet	How to Get Along With Women
Sadiqa de Meijer	1977		short stories, poet	Leaving Howe Island
James de Mille	1833	1880	novelist	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau	1912	1943	poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories	Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929–1939
Marq de Villiers	1940		journalist, magazine editor, science	Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Anthony de Sa			novelist, short stories	Barnacle Love
Patrick deWitt	1975		novelist	The Sisters Brothers
Michael Delisle	1959		novelist, poet, short stories	Le sort de fille, Le Feu de mon père
Martine Delvaux	1968		novelist, non-fiction	Blanc dehors
David Demchuk			playwright, novelist	The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise
John DeMont			journalist, non-fiction	Coal Black Heart, The Long Way Home
Sandra Dempsey	1956
Barry Dempster	1952
Dennis Denisoff			novelist, poet, academic	Dog Years, The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
Randall Denley			journalist, novelist	The Perfect Candidate
Robert C. Dennis	1915	1983	pulp fiction, mysteries, radio and television shows, screenplays, novelist
Adebe DeRango-Adem			poet	Terra Incognita, Vox Humana
Martine Desjardins	1957		novelist	Le Cercle de Clara, L'Évocation, Maleficium
Roxane Desjardins	1991		writer, editor	Ciseaux
Léo-Paul Desrosiers	1896	1967	journalist, novelist	Les Engagés du Grand Portage
Henriette Dessaulles	1860	1946	journalist, diarist	Fadette: Journal d'Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881
William Deverell	1937		mysteries, screenwriter	Trial of Passion, April Fool
Alexander Dewdney	1941	2024	computer science, philosophy
Christopher Dewdney	1951
Selwyn Hanington Dewdney	1909	1979	novelist, illustrator, non-fiction author	Wind Without Rain
Myrna Dey			novelist, journalist	Extensions
Ranj Dhaliwal	1976		novelist	Daaku, The Gangster's Life
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco	1949	2019	poet	The Tough Romance, Virgin Science, Living in Paradise
David Di Giovanni			playwright	Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses
Mary di Michele	1949		poet, novelist	Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New, Tenor of Love
Ann Diamond	1951		poet, novelist, short stories	A Nun's Diary, Evil Eye
Don Dickinson	1947		novelist, short stories	Blue Husbands, The Crew
Nicolas Dickner	1972		novelist, short stories	Nikolski
Cherie Dimaline	1975		novelist, short stories	The Marrow Thieves
Christopher DiRaddo	1974		novelist	The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way
Dorothy Dittrich			playwright	The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher
Sean Dixon			playwright	1492, A God in Need of Help
Sandra Djwa	1939		biography, literary criticism	Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
Kildare Dobbs	1923	2013	short stories
Farzana Doctor			novelist	Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement
Cory Doctorow	1971		science fiction	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother
Jeramy Dodds	1974		poet	Crabwise to the Hounds
M. T. Dohaney	1930		novelist, short stories	The Corrigan Women
Bob Dolman	1949		screenwriter	SCTV
Don Domanski	1950	2020
Fernand Dorais	1928	2003	academic literature, erotica	Entre Montréal...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes
Candas Jane Dorsey	1952		science fiction	Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth
Clive Doucet	1946			-
Lily Dougall	1858	1923	author	A Question of Faith
Arthur Doughty	1860	1936	historian	Canada and its Provinces,
Orville Lloyd Douglas	1976		poet
James Doull	1918	2001	philosopher
Philippa Dowding			children's literature	Oculum, Firefly
Glen Downey	1969		children's literature
Brian Doyle	1935		young adult fiction
Brian Drader	1960		playwright	Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals
Stan Dragland	1942	2022	fiction, poet, literary criticism, essays	Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, Peckertracks, Apocrypha: Further Journeys
Sylvie Drapeau	1962		novelist	Le Fleuve, La Terre
Don Druick	1945		playwright	Where Is Kabuki?, Through the Eyes
William Henry Drummond	1854	1907	poet	The Habitant
Klara du Plessis			poet	Ekke
Marcel Dubé	1930	2016
Peter Dubé			novelist, short stories	Hovering World, At the Bottom of the Sky
Réjean Ducharme	1941	2017
Louis Dudek	1918	2001	poet
John Duffie	1913	1989	humorist	Duffie's Unimportance of Being Earnest
Margaret Duley	1894	1968	novelist	The Eyes of the Gull
Dawn Dumont			novelist, short stories	Nobody Cries at Bingo, Rose's Run
Dave Duncan	1933	2018
Sandy Frances Duncan	1942		novels, short fiction, mysteries	Cariboo Runaway, Gold Rush Orphan, Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island
Sara Jeannette Duncan	1861	1922	novelist, journalist	The Imperialist
Warren Dunford	1963		novelist	Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer
Nina Dunic			short stories, novelist	The Clarion
Norma Dunning			short stories	Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
Kristyn Dunnion	1969		novelist, short stories	Big Big Sky, The Dirt Chronicles
Éric Dupont	1970		novelist	La Logeuse, La fiancée américaine
Douglas Durkin	1884	1967	novelist, screenwriter	The Magpie

E

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Lawrence Earl	1915	2005	novelist, journalist	Yangtse Incident, The Battle of Baltinglass
Edith Maude Eaton	1865	1914	short stories	Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Evelyn Eaton	1902	1983	novelist, poet	Quietly My Captain Waits
Chris Eaton	1971		novelist, music	The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect
Winnifred Eaton	1875	1954	novelist	A Japanese Nightingale
James Eayrs	1926	2021	historian	In Defence of Canada
Kim Echlin	1955		novelist	The Disappeared
David Eddie			novelist, humorist	Chump Change, Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, Damage Control
Esi Edugyan	1978		novelist	The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black
Caterina Edwards	1948		novelist, playwright, short story writer	The Lion's Mouth, Island of the Nightingales, The Sicilian Wife
Kyle Edwards			novelist, journalist	Small Ceremonies
Modris Eksteins	1943		historian	Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
Francesca Ekwuyasi			novelist	Butter Honey Pig Bread
Rima Elkouri			novelist, journalist	Manam
George Elliott	1923	1996	short stories	The Kissing Man, Crazy Water Boys
Shirley Elliott	1916	2004	biographer, bibliographer
Deborah Ellis	1960		non-fiction, young adult fiction	The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop
Sarah Ellis	1952		children's literature	Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks
Louis Émond	1969		novelist	The Manuscript
Marina Endicott	1958		novelist	Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh, The Difference
Howard Engel	1931	2019	mysteries	The Suicide Murders
Marian Engel	1933	1985	novelist	Bear
Yves Engler	1979		politics, activist	Playing Left Wing
Sharon English	1965		short stories	Zero Gravity
Karen Enns			poet	That Other Beauty, Cloud Physics
Steven Erikson	1959		novelist	Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Ann Eriksson	1956		novelist	In the Hands of Anubis
Thom Ernst			film critic, memoirist	The Wild Boy of Waubamik
Gloria Escomel	1941		novelist, dramatist, journalist	Pièges, Fruit de la passion
Robin Esrock	1974		travel writer	The Great Canadian Bucket List, The Great Global Bucket List
Michael Estok	1939	1989	poet	A Plague Year Journal
Hubert Evans	1892	1986	novelist, poet, short stories, journalism, young adult literature	Mist on the River
Jon Evans	1973		novelist	Dark Places
Stanley Evans	1931		novelist	Seaweed series of crime fiction

F

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Emil Fackenheim	1916	2003	historian, philosopher
Jean Mohsen Fahmy	1942		novelist, short stories, literary criticism	L'Agonie des dieux, La sultane dévoilée
Terry Fallis	1959		humorist	The Best Laid Plans
Alain Farah	1979		novelist, poet	Matamore no 29, Pourquoi Boulogne
Abla Farhoud	1945	2021	novelist, playwright	Le bonheur a la queue glissante, La Possession du Prince
Edmundo Farolan	1943	2023	poet, playwright, novelist	Itinerancias, Hexalogia Teatral, Love, Travels and Other Memoirs of a Filipino Writer
Brian Fawcett	1944	2022	novelist, non-fiction	Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
Charles Fenerty	1821	1892	poet, journalist, inventor	Betula Nigra, Essay on Progress
Linda Rui Feng			novelist	Swimming Back to Trout River
Ian Ferguson			playwright, humorist	Village of the Small Houses
Max Ferguson	1924	2013	humorist	And Now... Here's Max
Trevor Ferguson aka John Farrow	1947		novelist, playwright
Will Ferguson	1964		humorist, novelist, travel writer	Why I Hate Canadians, Happiness, 419
Raoul Fernandes			poet	Transmitter and Receiver
Paola Ferrante			poet, short stories	What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack, Her Body Among Animals
Jacques Ferron	1921	1985	playwright
Madeleine Ferron	1922	2010	novelist	La fin des loups-garous
George Fetherling	1949
Bradda Field	1893	1957	novelist	The Earthen Lot, Miledi, Small Town
Charlotte Fielden	1932	2021
Joy Fielding	1945		novelist
Connie Fife	1961	2017	poet	Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World
Timothy Findley	1930	2002	novelist, dramatist, short stories	The Wars, The Piano Man's Daughter
Lois Fine			playwright	Freda and Jem's Best of the Week
Larry Fineberg	1945		playwright	Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve
Judith Fingard	1943		historian	The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax
Joe Fiorito	1948		novelist, columnist, memoirist	The Song Beneath the Ice
Sheree Fitch	1956		poet, novelist, children's fiction	Mabel Murple, Kiss the Joy As It Flies
James FitzGerald			non-fiction	Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
Judith Fitzgerald	1952	2015
Polly Fleck	1933	2019	poet	The Chinese Execution
Anne Fleming	1964
May Agnes Fleming	1840	1880	novelist	The Midnight Queen, Queen of the Isle, Lost for a Woman
Cynthia Flood	1940		novelist, short stories	My Father Took a Cake to France, Making a Stone of the Heart, Red Girl Rat Boy
Lisa Foad			short stories, journalist	The Night Is a Mouth
Waawaate Fobister			playwright	Agokwe
Jacques Folch-Ribas	1928		novelist	Une aurore boréale, Le silence, ou Le parfait bonheur
Naomi Fontaine	1987		novelist	Kuessipan, Manikanetish, Shuni
Dennis Foon	1951
Charles Foran	1960		novelist	Butterfly Lovers, Carolan's Farewell, House on Fire
John-James Ford	1972
Paul Serge Forest			novelist	Tout est ori
André Forget			novelist	In the City of Pigs
Helen Forrester	1919	2011	novelist
Dominique Fortier	1972		novelist	Du bon usage des étoiles, Au péril de la mer
Carley Fortune	1985		novelist	Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake
Cecil Foster	1954
Marion Foster	1924	1997	mysteries	The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender
Martin Fournier	1954		historian, young adult literature	The Adventures of Radisson
Roger Fournier	1929	2012	novelist, screenwriter	Le cercle des arènes, A Day in a Taxi
Barbara Fradkin
Tess Fragoulis
Elizabeth Frame	1820	1904	novelist, historian
Brian Francis	1971		novelist	Fruit
Brad Fraser	1959		playwright	Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
John Anderson Fraser	1866	1960
Keath Fraser	1944
Raymond Fraser	1941	2018		Rum River, In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke, When The Earth Was Flat, In Another Life
Sylvia Fraser	1935	2022	novelist
Louis Fréchette	1839	1908	poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Pauline Fréchette	1889	1943	poet, dramatist, journalist, Catholic nun
David French	1939	2010	playwright
Maida Parlow French	1891	1977	novelist, artist, biographer
Kathy Friedman			short stories	All the Shining People
Patrick Friesen	1946
Mark Frutkin	1948
Northrop Frye	1912	1991	critic	Anatomy of Criticism
Kim Fu	1987		novelist	For Today I Am a Boy
Robert Fulford	1932	2024	journalist
Janine Fuller	1958		non-fiction	Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pik-Shuen Fung			novelist	Ghost Forest
Wes Funk	1969	2015	novelist	Dead Rock Stars, Baggage
Nicola Furlong

G

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Brendan Gall	1978		playwright, screenwriter	Wide Awake Hearts
Mavis Gallant	1922	2014	short stories	From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks
Steven Galloway	1975		novelist	The Cellist of Sarajevo
Dan Gardner			nonfiction	Superforecasting
François-Xavier Garneau	1809	1866	historian	History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau	1912	1943	poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories	Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, Œuvres en prose, Journal 1929-1939
Hugh Garner	1913	1979	novelist	Cabbagetown
Alfred Garrioch	1848	1934	novelist	First Furrows
Elyse Gasco	1967		short stories	Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Bill Gaston	1953		novelist, short stories	The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite
C. E. Gatchalian	1974		playwright	Motifs & Repetitions, Falling in Time
Connie Gault	1949		playwright, novelist, short stories	Sky, Euphoria, A Beauty
Daniel Gawthrop	1963		journalist, biographer	Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter
Pauline Gedge	1945		novelist	Stargate, House of Illusions
John Geiger			non-fiction author	The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition
Karoline Georges	1970		novelist, poet	De synthèse
Tea Gerbeza			poet	How I Bend Into More
Shree Ghatage	1957		novelist, short story writer	Awake When All the World Is Asleep
Camilla Gibb	1968		novelist	Sweetness in the Belly
John Murray Gibbon	1875	1952	non-fiction, novelist	Canadian Mosaic
Chantal Gibson			poet	How She Read
Douglas Gibson	1943		editor, publisher, memoirist	Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others
Graeme Gibson	1934	2019	novelist	Five Legs, Perpetual Motion
Margaret Gibson	1948	2006	novelist, short stories	The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams
William Gibson	1948		science fiction	Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties
Sky Gilbert	1952		playwright	Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space
Charlotte Gill			short stories, non-fiction	Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
John Patrick Gillese	1926	1999	novelist, short stories	Kirby's Gander
Curtis Gillespie	1960		short stories, non-fiction, novels	The Progress of an Object in Motion, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast
David Gilmour	1949		novelist	A Perfect Night to Go to China
M-E Girard			young adult literature	Girl Mans Up
Malcolm Gladwell	1963		journalist, sociologist	The Tipping Point, Outliers, Talking to Strangers
Joanna Glass	1936		playwright	If We Are Women, Trying
John Glassco	1909	1981	poet, translator, memoirist	Memoirs of Montparnasse
Paul Glennon			short stories, young adult literature	The Dodecahedron, Bookweird
Susan Glickman	1953		poet, novelist, critic	The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
Douglas Glover	1948		novelist	Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N
Jacques Godbout	1933		novelist	Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine
Dave Godfrey	1938	2015	novelist	The New Ancestors
Martyn Godfrey	1949	2000	writer, teacher, writer in residence	Ms. Teeny-Wonderful Series, Can You Teach Me To Pick My Nose?
Philip H. Godsell	1889	1961	writer	Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
Glenda Goertzen	1967		novelist	The Prairie Dogs
Nora Gold	1952		writer	Fields of Exile, The Dead Man, Marrow And Other Stories, 18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym
Oliver Goldsmith	1794	1861	poet	The Rising Village
Gabriella Goliger	1949		novelist, short stories	Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped
Leona Gom	1946		novelist, mysteries, poet	Housebroken, Freeze Frame
Michelle Good			novelist	Five Little Indians
Alison Gordon	1943	2015	sports journalist, mysteries	The Dead Pull Hitter, Prairie Hardball
Charles Gordon	1940		newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist	The Governor General's Bunny Hop, The Canada Trip
Phyllis Gotlieb	1926	2009	poet, science fiction	A Judgement of Dragons
Sondra Gotlieb	1936		newspaper columnist	True Confections
Hiromi Goto	1966		science fiction	Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child
John Gould			short stories	Kilter: 55 Fictions
Nora Gould			poet	I see my love more clearly from a distance, Selah
George R. D. Goulet	1933		historian	The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony
Terry Goulet	1934		historian	The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony
Katherine Govier	1948		novelist	Angel Walk, The Truth Teller
Lee Gowan	1961		novelist	Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy
Barbara Gowdy	1950		novelist, short stories	The Romantic, The White Bone
Wayne Grady	1948		novelist, memoir, science	Emancipation Day, Breakfast at the Exit Café
Gwethalyn Graham	1913	1965	novelist	Earth and High Heaven
Neile Graham	1958		poet	Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory
Martin Allerdale Grainger	1874	1941	novelist, journalist	Woodsmen of the West
Marlowe Granados			novelist, screenwriter	Happy Hour
Jack Granatstein	1939		historian
	1950		children's literature	In Flanders Fields
E. M. Granger Bennett		1988	historical fiction	Short of the Glory
George Grant	1918	1988	historian, philosopher	Lament for a Nation
Hilda Kay Grant	1910	1996	writer, artist	The Salt Box
Jessica Grant	1972		novelist, short stories	Come, Thou Tortoise
Élise Gravel	1977		children's literature, graphic novels	Le Grand Antonio, La clé à molette
François Gravel	1951		novelist	Ostende, Fillion et frères, Adieu, Betty Crocker
Charlotte Gray	1948		novelist, non-fiction	Mrs. King
R. W. Gray			short stories	Crisp, Entropic
Ethel Grayson	1890	1980	novelist, poet
Lowell Green	1936		history, fictional, memoir, autobiography, journalism	Amazing But True!: 150 Fascinating Stories About Canada!
Nick Green			playwright	Body Politic
Robert Joseph Greene	1973		children's literature, romantic fiction	This High School Has Closets, The Gay Icon Classics of the World
Ed Greenwood	1959		fantasy	Forgotten Realms
Darren Greer	1968		novelist	Still Life with June, Just Beneath My Skin
Justin Gregg			science writer	If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
James Gregor			novelist	Going Dutch
Doris Gregory			autobiographer	How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
Daniel Grenier	1980		novelist, short stories	L’année la plus longue
Taras Grescoe			creative non-fiction	Sacré Blues
Grey Owl	1888	1938	conservationist	The Men of the Last Frontier, Pilgrims of the Wild
Francis William Grey	1860	1939	novelist, poet, non-fiction	The Curé of St. Philippe
Claude-Henri Grignon	1894	1976	novelist, satirist	Un Homme et son péché
G. A. Grisenthwaite			novelist, short stories, poet	Home Waltz
Lionel Groulx	1878	1967	historian	The Call of the Race
Frederick Phillip Grove	1879	1948	novelist	Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways
Brett Josef Grubisic	1963		novelist, critic	The Age of Cities
Katia Grubisic	1978		poet, short stories	what if red ran out
Agnès Gruda			journalist, short story writer	Onze petites trahisons
Christian Guay-Poliquin	1982		novelist	Le fil des kilomètres, Le poids de la neige
Germaine Guèvremont	1893	1968	novelist, short stories	Le Survenant, Marie-Didace
Genni Gunn	1949		novelist, poet	Tracing Iris, Faceless
Kristjana Gunnars	1948		poet, novelist	Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps
Stephen Guppy	1951		poet, novelist, short stories	Understanding Heaven, The Work of Mercy
David Gurr	1936		novelist, playwright	The Ring Master
Ralph Gustafson	1909	1995	poet	Fire on Stone
Don Gutteridge	1937		poet, novelist
Sandra Gwyn	1935	2000	journalist	The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

H

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Samra Habib			photographer, memoirist	We Have Always Been Here
Chris Hadfield	1959		scientist, memoirist, essayist, musician	An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
Rawi Hage	1964		novelist	De Niro's Game, Cockroach, Carnival
Joan Haggerty	1940
Medina Hahn			playwright	Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Roderick Haig-Brown	1908	1976
Ken Haigh	1962		memoirist	Under the Holy Lake, On Foot to Canterbury
Arthur Hailey	1920	2004	novelist	Hotel, Airport
Susan Haley	1949		novelist	A Nest of Singing Birds, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
Thomas Chandler Haliburton	1796	1865		The Clockmaker
Phil Hall	1953		poet	Killdeer
Louis Hamelin	1959		novelist, short stories, literary critic	La Rage, Sauvages, La Constellation du Lynx
Ian Hamilton	1946		journalist, mysteries	The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Jane Eaton Hamilton	1954			Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger
Lyn Hancock	1938			There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon
Angeline Hango	1909	1995	novelist, journalist	Truthfully Yours
Catherine Hanrahan			novelist	Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Kevin Hardcastle	1980		novelist, short stories	Debris
Robin Hardy	1952	1995	novelist, journalist	Call of the Wendigo, Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood
Robyn Harding	1969		novelist	The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party
Robert Harlow	1923		novelist	Scann
Liz Harmer			novelist	The Amateurs
Jennica Harper			poet, television writer	Wood, Bounce House, Jann
Lisa Harrington	1965		novelist	Live to Tell
Alexander Harris	1805	1874	novelist	Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods
Claire Harris	1937	2018
Dorothy Joan Harris	1931		children's literature
Marjorie Harris	1937		gardening	Seasons of My Garden
Michael Harris	1944		poet	Circus
Michael Harris	1948		journalist	Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall
Michael Harris	1980		non-fiction, young adult literature	The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Keith Harrison	1945	2019	novelist	Eyemouth, Furry Creek
Jill Hartman	1974
Diana Hartog	1942		poet, novelist	Matinee Light, Candy from Strangers, The Photographer's Sweethearts
Kristen den Hartog	1965
Kenneth J. Harvey	1962		novelist	Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco
Kim Senklip Harvey			playwright	Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
Elisabeth Harvor	1936	2024	novelist, poet	Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Erum Shazia Hasan			novelist	We Meant Well
Liedewy Hawke			translator
Barbara Haworth-Attard	1953
Elizabeth Hay	1951		novelist, non-fiction	Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana
Elliott Hayes	1956	1994
Matthew Hays			film critic, journalist	The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
Steven Hayward			novelist, short stories	Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke
Charles Heavysege	1816	1876	poet	Saul
Anne Hébert	1916	2000	novelist, poet, short stories, novellas	Kamouraska, Les Chambres de Bois, Les Fous de Bassan, Le Torrent
Maurice Hébert	1888	1960	novelist, poet	Le Cycle de Don Juan
Steven Heighton	1961	2022	novelist, poet	The Shadow Boxer
Sydney Hegele			short stories	The Pump
William C. Heine	1919	1991	novelist, newspaper editor	The Last Canadian
Matthew Heiti			novelist, screenwriter, playwright	Son of the Sunshine, The City Still Breathing
Tyler Hellard			novelist	Searching for Terry Punchout
Michael Helm	1961		novelist, editor	The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things
David Helwig	1938	2018	novelist, poet	Figures in a Landscape, A Sound Like Laughter
Maggie Helwig	1961
Louis Hémon	1880	1913	novelist, journalist	Maria Chapdelaine
Lee Henderson			novelist, short stories	The Broken Record Technique, The Man Game, Disintegration in Four Parts
Maurice Henrie	1936	2024	novelist, short stories, non-fiction	Le Balcon dans le ciel
Sarah Henstra			novelist	Mad Miss Mimic, The Red Word
John Herbert	1926	2001	playwright	Fortune and Men's Eyes
Sarah Herbert	1824	1846	publisher, writer, poet	The Æolian harp; or, miscellaneous poems
Catherine Hernandez			playwright, novelist	Scarborough
Frances Elizabeth Herring	1851	1916	journalist, novelist
Nicholas Herring			novelist	Some Hellish
Trevor Herriot			naturalist	River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Benjamin Hertwig			poet	Slow War
Sheila Heti	1976		novelist, short stories	How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories, Ticknor
Paul Hiebert	1892	1987	novelist, humorist	Sarah Binks
Tomson Highway	1951		playwright, novelist	Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen
Kay Hill	1917	2011	Joe Howe: The Man who was Nova Scotia	playwright, children's literature
Lawrence Hill	1957		novelist, memoirist	Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes
Ernest Hillen			journalist, memoirist	The Way of a Boy, Small Mercies
Robert Hilles	1951		poet and novelist	Cantos from a Small Room, A Gradual Ruin, Partake, Line, Calling the Wild
Jack Hodgins	1938
Robert Hogg	1942	2022	poet, critic	The Connexions
Nadia L. Hohn			children's literature	Malaika's Costume
Susan Holbrook			poet	Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes
Arthur Holden	1959		playwright, television	Father Land, Ars Poetica, The Book of Bob
Clive Holden			poet	Trains of Winnipeg
Claire Holden Rothman	1958		novelist, short stories	The Heart Specialist, My October
Pauline Holdstock
Norah M. Holland	1876	1925	poet, playwright, journalist, editor	Spun-yarn and Spindrift, When Half-gods Go, and Other Poems
Matthew Hollett			poet	Optic Nerve
Greg Hollingshead	1947		novelist, short stories	The Roaring Girl, The Healer
Margaret Hollingsworth	1942		playwright	Ever Loving, War Babies, Islands
Michael Hollingsworth	1950		playwright	The History of the Village of the Small Huts
Nancy Holmes	1959		poet	The Adultery Poems, The Flicker Tree
Margaret Lindsay Holton	1955		novelist, short stories, poet, social history	Economic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs
David Homel	1952		novelist, translator	Electrical Storms, The Speaking Cure, The Teardown
Hugh Hood	1928	2000	novelist	The New Age
Cornelia Hoogland	1952
Hilda Mary Hooke	1898	1978	poet, dramatist
Emma Hooper	1980		novelist	Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Our Homesick Songs
Nalo Hopkinson	1960		science fiction, fantasy	Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads
Leah Horlick			poet	Riot Lung, For Your Own Good
Harold Horwood	1923	2006
Karen Houle			poet	The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology
Liz Howard			poet	Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
Rick Howe	1954	2024	radio personality, non-fiction	Behind the Mic
Stevie Howell			poet	Sharps, I left nothing inside on purpose
Nazanine Hozar	1978		novelist	Aria
David Huebert			short stories, poetry	Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley
Annie Campbell Huestis	1878	1960	short stories, poetry	Flannigan, The Will-'o-the-Wisp
Tanya Huff	1957		fantasy
Matt Hughes	1949
Helen Humphreys	1961		novelist	Afterimage, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus
Aislinn Hunter
Bruce Hunter	1952		poet, novelist, non-fiction	Coming Home from Home, Country Music Country, The Beekeeper's Daughter, Two O'Clock Creek Poems New and Selected, In The Bear's House
Catherine Hunter	1957
Maureen Hunter	1948
Mervyn Huston	1912	2001	humorist	Gophers Don't Pay Taxes
Nancy Huston	1953		novelist, translator
Linda Hutcheon	1947		critic, academic	The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, A Theory of Adaptation.
Hazel Hutchins
Chris Hutchinson	1972		poet, novelist, academic	Other People's Lives, A Brief History of the Short-lived, Jonas in Frames
Bruce Hutchison	1901	1992
Céline Huyghebaert			novelist	Le drap blanc
Joel Thomas Hynes	1976		novelist, playwright, screenwriter	Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday
Maureen Hynes			poet	Rough Skin, Harm's Way, Marrow, Willow

I

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Ameer Idreis	1999		novelist	The Ewald Series
Michael Ignatieff	1947		novelist, academic	Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging
George K. Ilsley	1958		novelist, short stories	Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug
Neamat Imam	1971		novelist	The Black Coat
Susan Ioannou	1944		poet	Clarity Between Clouds
Anosh Irani	1974		novelist	The Song of Kahunsha
Ann Ireland	1953	2018	novelist	Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Dionne Irving			novelist, short stories	Quint, The Islands
Brian Thomas Isaac	1950		novelist	All the Quiet Places
Adel Iskandar	1977		media critic	Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism
Doyali Islam			poet	Yusuf and the Lotus Flower, Heft
Frances Itani	1942		novelist	Deafening

J

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works Dragons of Nesbit	-
Donald Jack	1924	2003	novelist, playwright	The Bandy Papers, Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses	-
Suzanne Jacob	1943		novelist, poet	Laura Laur, La Part de feu	-
Heidi L. M. Jacobs			novelist	Molly of the Mall	-
Maria Jacobs	1930		poet		-
Michael Jacot	1924	2006	novelist, screenwriter	The Last Act of Martin Weston, The Last Butterfly	-
Simone St. James			novelist	The Book of Cold Cases, The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls	-
Anna Brownell Jameson	1794	1860		Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada	-
J. Robert Janes	1935	2022	mysteries		-
Mark Anthony Jarman	1955		novelist, short stories	19 Knives, My White Planet	-
Melynda Jarratt	1961		non-fiction, historian literature	Voices of the Left Behind, War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved, Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides, Letters From Beauly	-
Claude Jasmin	1930	2021	novelist, screenwriter, short stories	Éthel et le terroriste, La Sablière, Délivrez-nous du mal	-
Michel Jean			novelist, journalist	Kukum, Atuk	-
François Jeanneret	1890	1967	historian		-
E. A. Jenns	1860	1930	poet	Evening to Morning, and Other Poems	-
Paulette Jiles	1943	2025	novelist, poet	Celestial Navigation, Enemy Women	-
Dean Jobb			true crime	Calculated Risk, Empire of Deception	-
Gilles Jobidon	1950		novelist	La Route des petits matins, Le Tranquille affligé
Marthe Jocelyn	1956		children's/young adult literature	Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series	-
K. V. Johansen	1968		fantasy, science fiction	Nightwalker, Torrie series, Pippin series, Cassandra Virus	-
Jessica Johns			novelist, short stories	Bad Cree	-
Linda Johns	1945		non-fiction	Sharing a Robin's Life	-
E. Pauline Johnson	1861	1913	poet	Canadian Born	-
Wentworth M. Johnson	1939	2014	science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction	Angel of the Veil, The Curse of Valdi, Bill Reyner Mystery Adventure Series	-
Aviaq Johnston	1992/1993		children's/young adult literature	Those Who Run in the Sky	-
Julie Johnston			children's/young adult literature	Adam and Eve and Pinch Me	-
Wayne Johnston	1958		novelist, non-fiction	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Baltimore's Mansion	-
Sean Johnston	1966		novelist, short stories, poet	A Day Does Not Go By	-
Andy Jones	1948		playwright, screenwriter	The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood	-
Alice Jones	1853	1933	novelist, essayist	Gabriel Praed's Castle	-
D. G. Jones	1929	2016	poet, translator	Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth	-
Scott Jones			playwright, screenwriter	Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You	-
Terry Jordan			short stories	It's a Hard Cow	-
Eve Joseph	1953		poet	The Startled Heart, Quarrels	-

K

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Michael Kaan			fiction	The Water Beetles
Joseph Kakwinokanasum			fiction	My Indian Summer
Elaine Kalman Naves	1947		non-fiction	Putting Down Roots, Shoshonna's Story
Surjeet Kalsey			poet, drama, short stories, translator	FootPrints of Silence, Speaking to the Wind, Colours of My Heart
Smaro Kamboureli
Alan Kane	1954			Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
Donna Kane			poet	Orrery
Adeena Karasick	1965		poet	This Poem
Ibi Kaslik	1973		novelist	Skinny, The Angel Riots
Welwyn Wilton Katz	1948
Aristote Kavungu	1962		fiction, poetry	Un train pour l'est, Mon père, Boudarel et moi
Guy Gavriel Kay	1954		fantasy	The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan
Greg Kearney			short stories, drama	Mommy Daddy Baby, Pretty, Cancun
Lionel Kearns	1937		fiction, essays, digital-word-art	Birth of God/uniVers, Convergences
Diane Keating			poet	No Birds or Flowers
Julie Keith			short stories	The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There
Thomas P. Kelley	1910	1982	pulp, true crime	The Black Donnellys
Kaie Kellough	1975		poet, novelist, short stories	Magnetic Equator, Dominoes at the Crossroads
Cathal Kelly			sportswriter, memoirist	Boy Wonders
M. T. Kelly	1946		novelist	A Dream Like Mine
Sean Kelly	1940	2022	humor	Saints preserve us!, Not the Bible, Boom Baby Moon
Olivier Kemeid	1975		playwright	L'Éneide, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle, Furieux et désespérés
Oonya Kempadoo			novelist	Naniki
Holly Kennedy			novelist	The Tin Box, The Penny Tree, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Howard Angus Kennedy	1861	1938	Historian, journalist	The Northwest Rebellion
Michael Kenyon			novelist, short stories, poet	The Beautiful Children, Kleinberg
Conor Kerr	1988		novelist, poet	Avenue of Champions, An Explosion of Feathers
Susan Kerslake	1943		novelist, short stories	Middlewatch, The Book of Fears
Joseph Kertes	1951		novelist, journalist	Winter Tulips, Gratitude
Craig Kielburger	1982		human rights activist and social entrepreneur	Free the Children, WEconomy, Lessons From a Street Kid
Marc Kielburger	1977		human rights activist, author, social entrepreneur	Me To We: Finding Meaning In a Material World, My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter
William Kilbourn	1926	1995	historian	The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion
Crawford Kilian	1941			The Last Vikings
Crad Kilodney	1948	2014	short stories	Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda
Deborah Kimmett			playwright, humorist	Miracle Mother, Outrunning Crazy
Basil King	1859	1928	novelist; co-founder Canadian Authors Association	The Inner Shrine
Thomas King	1943		novelist, non-fiction	Green Grass, Running Water
Wesley King	1987		novelist, fiction	OCDaniel, The Wizenard Series
Mark Kingwell	1963		philosopher	Dreams of Millennium
W.P. Kinsella	1935	2016	novelist, short stories	Shoeless Joe, Dance Me Outside
William Kirby	1817	1906	novelist, poet	The Golden Dog
Barbara Klar	1966		poet	The Night You Called Me a Shadow
Sarah Klassen	1932		novelist, poet	Journey to Yalta, A Curious Beatitude, The Wittenbergs
A. M. Klein	1909	1972	novelist, poet	The Second Scroll
Joshua Knelman			creative non-fiction	Hot Art
Chelene Knight			poet, creative non-fiction	Dear Current Occupant
Emma Knight			novelist, food writer	The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
Raymond Knister	1899	1932		Grapes
Alexander Knox	1907	1995	actor, novelist	Night Of The White Bear
Tamai Kobayashi	1965		short stories, novelist	Prairie Ostrich
Eric Koch	1919	2018	novelist	Premonitions
Joy Kogawa	1935		poet, novelist	Obasan, Itsuka
Miodrag Kojadinović	1961		short story writer, poet	Érotiques Suprèmes, Under Thunderous Skies
Sergio Kokis	1944		novelist, poet, short stories	Le Pavillon des miroirs, Les amants d'Alfama, Culs-de-sac
Pamela Korgemagi			novelist	The Hunter and the Old Woman
Gordon Korman	1963		children's, young adult literature	This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall
Myrna Kostash	1944			Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe
Shane Koyczan	1976			Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty
Greg Kramer	1961	2013	novelist, playwright	The Pursemonger of fugu, Couchwarmer, Wally
Philip Kreiner	1950		novelist, short stories	People Like Us in a Place Like This
Henry Kreisel	1922	1991	novelist	The Rich Man
Aaron Kreuter			poet, short stories	You and Me, Belonging, Shifting Baseline Syndrome
John Krizanc	1956		playwright	Tamara
Robert Kroetsch	1927	2011	novelist, poet	The Studhorse Man, The Hornbooks of Rita K
Daniel Krolik	1977		playwright	Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer	1965		novelist, short stories	Way Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things
Janice Kulyk Keefer	1952		novelist, poet	Constellations, The Green Library
J. D. Kurtness			fiction	De vengeance
Michael Kusugak	1948		children's literature	The Littlest Sled Dog
Lydia Kwa	1959		fiction, poet	This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy

L

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Gilbert La Rocque	1943	1984	novelist, biographer	Les masques
Sonnet L'Abbé			poet	A Strange Relief, Killarnoe
Carole Labarre	1966		novelist	L'Or des mélèzes
Richard Labonté	1949	2022	critic, anthologist	First Person Queer, Best Gay Erotica series
Rosa Labordé			playwright	Léo
Marie-Sissi Labrèche	1969		screenwriter, novelist	Borderline
Marie-Ève Lacasse	1982		novelist	Autobiographie de l'étranger
Edward A. Lacey	1937	1995	poet	The Forms of Life
Myriam Lacroix			novelist	How It Works Out
Ben Ladouceur	1987		poet	Otter
Chloé LaDuchesse			poet	Exosquelette
Steven Laffoley	1965		non-fiction, novelist	Shadowboxing: the life and times of George Dixon, The Blue Tattoo
Marie-Pier Lafontaine			novelist	Chienne
Larissa Lai	1967		novelist	When Fox Is a Thousand
Angélique Lalonde			short stories	Glorious Frazzled Beings
Kama La Mackerel			poet	ZOM-FAM
Vincent Lam	1974		medicine, novelist	Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Headmaster's Wager
Tsering Yangzom Lama			novelist	We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Guillaume Lambert	1984		novelist, screenwriter	Satyriasis : mes années romantiques, Eschatologie, Niagara
Kevin Lambert	1992		novelist	Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval
Gerald Lampert	1920s	1978	novelist, poet	Tangle Me No More, Chestnut Flower Eye of Venus
Tim Lander	1938	2023	poet	Street Heart Poems
Patrick Lane	1939	2019	poet	Poems, New and Selected
André Langevin	1927	2009	novelist, playwright, journalist	Évadé de la nuit, Poussière sur la ville, Une Chaîne dans le parc
Marisa Lankester	1963		writer	Dangerous Odds
Shari Lapena	1960		novelist	Happiness Economics, The Couple Next Door
Annette Lapointe	1978		novelist	Stolen
Hubert LaRue	1833	1881	writer, physician, scientist	Voyage Sentimental Sur La Rue Saint-Jean
Stéphane Larue	1983		novelist	Le Plongeur
Evelyn Lau	1971		poet, novelist, memoirist	Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
Margaret Laurence	1926	1987	novelist	The Stone Angel, The Diviners
Agnes C. Laut	1871	1936	journalist, novelist, historian, social worker	Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Quenchless Night, The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier
Marie-Renée Lavoie	1974		novelist	La petite et le vieux, Autopsie d'une femme plate
Karen Lawrence	1951		novelist, poet, short stories	The Life of Helen Alone
R.D. Lawrence	1921	2003	naturalist, nature writer	Cry Wild
Guy Lawson	1963		journalist	War Dogs
Mary Lawson	1946		novelist	Crow Lake
Irving Layton	1912	2006	poet	A Wild Peculiar Joy
Jack Layton	1950	2011	non-fiction	Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis
Stephen Leacock	1869	1944	humorist	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Georgette LeBlanc	1977		poet, translator	Alma, Prudent
Gérald Leblanc	1945	2005	poet	Complaintes du continent, Moncton Mantra
Perrine Leblanc	1980		novelist	L'homme blanc, Malabourg
D. M. LeBourdais	1887	1964	journalist, historian	Nation of the North: Canada Since Confederation, Canada and the Atomic Revolution
Isabel LeBourdais	1909	2003	journalist	The Trial of Steven Truscott
Félix Leclerc	1914	1988	writer, poet, singer-songwriter	Pieds nus dans l'aube, Le calepin d'un flâneur, Moi, mes souliers
Dennis Lee	1939		poet	Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies
John Alan Lee	1933	2013	sociologist	The Colours of Love, Getting Sex
JJ Lee			non-fiction	The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Jen Sookfong Lee			novelist	The End of East
John B. Lee	1951		poet	The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb
Nancy Lee	1970		short stories	Dead Girls
Ronald Lee	1934	2020	novelist	Goddam Gypsy
Sky Lee	1952		short stories, novelist	Disappearing Moon Cafe
Mathyas Lefebure			novelist	D'où viens tu, berger?
Lily Alice Lefevre	1854	1938	poet	The Lions' Gate and Other Verses, A Garden By the Sea
Mark Leiren-Young	1962		playwright, novelist	Shylock, The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
Roger Lemelin	1919	1992	novelist, essayist	The Town Below
Matt Lennox	1980		novelist, short stories	Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Knucklehead
John Lent	1948	2006	poet, novelist	So it Won't Go Away
Don LePan	1954		novelist	Animals
Douglas LePan	1914	1998	poet, novelist	The Deserter, "Coureurs de Bois," "A Country Without a Mythology"
Catherine Leroux	1979		novelist, short stories	Le mur mitoyen, Madame Victoria
Pierre Leroux	1958		novelist	Le Rire des femmes, Cher éditeur
Alex Leslie			poet, short stories	People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You
Mark Leslie	1969		novelist, non-fiction, short stories	Haunted Hamilton, One Hand Screaming, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, A Canadian Werewolf in New York
Sophie Létourneau	1980		novelist	Chasse à l'homme
Carrianne Leung			novelist, short stories	The Wondrous Woo, That Time I Loved You
J. R. (Roger) Léveillé	1945		novelist, poet, non-fiction	The Setting Lake Sun
Yves Lever	1942	2020	film critic, historian, biographer	Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec
Lilian Leveridge	1879	1953	poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles	"Over the Hills of Home"
Norman Levine	1923	2005	short stories	One Way Ticket, Thin Ice
Shar Levine	1953		children's science	Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope
Naomi K. Lewis	1976		novelist, non-fiction	Cricket in a Fist, I Know Who You Remind Me Of, Tiny Lights for Travellers
Wyndham Lewis	1882	1957	novelist	The Apes of God
Katherine Leyton			poet	All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
T. Liem			poet	Obits
Hillar Liitoja			playwright	The Last Supper, Sick, This Is What Happens in Orangeville
Thea Lim	1981		novelist	An Ocean of Minutes
Michael Lista	1983		poet	Bloom
Ashley Little	1983		children's, young adult literature	The New Normal, Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Jean Little	1932	2020	novelist	Mine for Keeps
Dorothy Livesay	1909	1996	poet	Day and Night, Poems for People
Billie Livingston	1965		novelist, short stories, poet	Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes
Douglas Lochhead	1922	2011	poet	High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems
D.A. Lockhart	1976		poet, short stories, essayist	North of Middle Island, Breaking Right, Devil in the Woods
Lynette Loeppky			memoirist	Cease
John Lorinc			journalist	Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
Kevin Loring	1974		playwright	Where the Blood Mixes
Jennifer LoveGrove			poet, novelist	Watch How We Walk
Lezlie Lowe			journalist, non-fiction	No Place to Go, The Volunteers
Malcolm Lowry	1909	1957	novelist	Under the Volcano
Pat Lowther	1935	1975	poet	Milk Stone, A Stone Diary
Canisia Lubrin			poet, novelist	The Dyzgraphxst, Code Noir
Jack Ludwig	1922	2018	novelist, short stories, sportswriter	Above Ground, The Great American Spectaculars: The Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and Other Days of Celebration
Sidura Ludwig			novelist, short stories	Holding My Breath, You Are Not What We Expected
Pearl Luke	1958		novelist	Burning Ground, Madame Zee
Janet Lunn	1928	2017	children's literature	The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree
Laura Lush	1959		poet, short story writer	Hometown, Going to the Zoo
Richard Lush	1934		poet	A Manual for Lying Down
Michael Lynch	1944	1991	poet, journalist, academic	These Waves of Dying Friends
Annabel Lyon	1971		novels, short stories	The Golden Mean
Eswyn Lyster	1923	2009	war brides, war	Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle

M

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Rozena Maart	1962		novelist, short stories	Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle
Patrick MacAdam	1934	2015		Gold Medal Misfits
Annick MacAskill			poet	Shadow Blight
Ann-Marie MacDonald	1958		novelist, playwright	Fall on Your Knees, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Bryden MacDonald	1960		playwright	Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath
D. R. MacDonald	1939		novelist, short stories	Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
Dawn Macdonald			poet	Northerny
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald	1864	1922	poet, children's literature, short stories, essays
Hugh MacDonald	1945			This is a Love Song
Jake MacDonald	1949	2020		The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country
Janice MacDonald	1959		novelist, children's literature, short stories	Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out
Maggie MacDonald	1979
Wilson MacDonald	1880	1967	poet	Song of the Prairie Land
Lee MacDougall			playwright	High Life
Gwendolyn MacEwen	1941	1987	poet, novelist	Julian the Magician, King of Egypt, King of Dreams
Mary Esther MacGregor	1872	1961	novelist, non-fiction	A Gentleman Adventurer, Courageous Women with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley
Roy MacGregor	1948		journalist, non-fiction	Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey
Agnes Maule Machar	1837	1927
Linden MacIntyre	1943		novelist, journalist	The Bishop's Man, Causeway
Matthew MacKenzie			playwright	Bears, The First Métis Man of Odesa
Rory Maclean	1954
Hugh MacLennan	1907	1990	novelist, essayist	Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising
Matt MacLennan
Michael MacLennan	1968
Alexander MacLeod	1972		short stories	Light Lifting
Alison MacLeod			fiction	Unexploded, All the Beloved Ghosts
Alistair MacLeod	1936	2014	novelist, short stories	No Great Mischief
Elizabeth Macleod			biographer
Joan MacLeod	1954		playwright	Amigo's Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, The Shape of a Girl
Rick Maddocks	1970		short stories	Sputnik Diner
Adriana Maggs			screenwriter	Grown Up Movie Star
Randall Maggs			poet	Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Michèle Magny	1944		playwright	Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel
Anand Mahadevan	1979		novelist	The Strike
Rabindranath Maharaj	1955		novelist, short stories	The Interloper, Homer in Flight, The Lagahoo's Apprentice
Louise Maheux-Forcier	1929	2015	novelist, radio and television drama	Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé
Keith Maillard	1942		novelist, poet	Twin Studies, Difficulty at the Beginning quartet, The Clarinet Polka, Gloria, Dementia Americana, Hazard Zones, Light in the Company of Women, Motet, Two Strand River
Antonine Maillet	1929	2025	novelist, playwright	La Sagouine, Pélagie-la-Charrette
André Major	1942		poet, novelist	Les Rescapés
Kevin Major	1949
Pasha Malla			short stories, journalism	The Withdrawal Method
Donato Mancini			poet	Ligature, Æthel, Same Diff
Eli Mandel	1922	1992	poet	Trio, An Idiot Joy, The Family Romance
Miriam Mandel	1930	1982	poet	Lions at Her Face, Station 14
Avner Mandelman			novelist, finance	The Debba
David Manicom	1960		poet, novelist
Lee Maracle	1950	2021	poet, novelist
Blaine Marchand	1949		poet, non-fiction, novelist	A Garden Enclosed, The Craving of Knives
Jovette Marchessault	1938	2012	novelist, playwright	Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr, Triptyque lesbien
Hubert Marcoux	1941	2009	non-fiction, adventure travel	Around the World in 18 Years
Michèle Marineau	1955		novelist, translator	La Route de Chlifa
Robert Marinier	1954		playwright, television	L'Insomnie, Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville
Daphne Marlatt	1942
Paul Marlowe			novelist, short stories	Sporeville
John Marlyn	1912	1985
Nicole Markotic	1962
Tom Marshall	1938	1993	poet, novelist, critic	Adele at the End of the Day
Yolanda T. Marshall	1978		children's literature	My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans
Émile Martel	1941	2023	poet, short stories	Pour orchestre et poète seul
Yann Martel	1963		novelist, short stories	Life of Pi, The High Mountains of Portugal
Camille Martin	1956		poet, collage artist	Sonnets, Looms
Claire Martin	1914	2014		La joue droite
Paul Nicholas Mason	1958		novelist, playwright	Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, A Pug Called Poppy, The Rogue Wave, The Night Drummer, To Our Graves
Vincent Massey	1887	1967	historian	On being Canadian, Speaking of Canada, Confederation on the march
Elan Mastai			screenwriter, novelist	The F Word, All Our Wrong Todays
Carol Matas	1949		novelist	After the War, Daniel's Story
Shirlee Smith Matheson	1943
Suzette Mayr	1967		novelist	Monoceros, The Sleeping Car Porter
John Bentley Mays	1941	2016	journalist, novelist, memoirist	In the Jaws of the Black Dogs, Power in the Blood
Susan Mayse	1948		creative non-fiction	Awen, Ginger, Merlin's Web
Julie Mazzieri	1975		novelist	Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot, La Bosco
Melchior Mbonimpa	1955		novelist, non-fiction	Les morts ne sont pas morts, Diangombé l'Immortel
Tawiah M'carthy			playwright	Obaaberima
Colin McAdam			novelist	Some Great Thing, A Beautiful Truth
Margaret McBurney	1931	2018	non-fiction
Steve McCaffery	1947
Julia McCarthy			poet	Return from Erebus, All the Names Between
Nellie McClung	1873	1951	journalist
Kathleen McConnell			poet, academic	Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth, The Hundefraulein Papers
Derek McCormack	1969		novelist, short stories	Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly
Eric McCormack	1938	2023	novelist	The Paradise Motel, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Edward McCourt	1907	1972	novelist, non-fiction	Music at the Close
John McCrae	1872	1918	poet	"In Flanders' Fields"
Kathleen McCracken	1960		poet	Blue Light, Bay and College
Derek McCulloch	1964		graphic novelist	Stagger Lee
Thomas McCulloch	1776	1843	humourist	The Stepsure Letters
Colin McDougall	1917	1984	novelist	Execution
Franklin D. McDowell	1888	1965	novelist	The Champlain Road
Jim McEwen			novelist	Fearnoch
David McFadden	1940	2018	poet, novelist, short stories	The Art of Darkness, What's the Score?
Donna McFarlane	1958		novelist	Division of Surgery
Leslie McFarlane	1902	1977	children's literature	The Hardy Boys
Sheryl McFarlane	1954		children's literature, young adult fiction	Waiting for the Whales, Jessie's Island, Eagle Dreams, This is the Dog
Oonah McFee	1916	2006	novels, short stories	Sandbars
Peter McGehee	1955	1991	novels, short stories	Boys Like Us, Sweetheart
Robin McGrath	1949		novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction	Escaped Domestics, Donovan's Station, Covenant of Salt
Jean McIlwraith	1858	1938	novelist, biographer
Edgar McInnis	1899	1973	poet, historian	The Unguarded Frontier, Oxford Periodical History of the War
James McIntyre	1827	1906	poet
Ami McKay	1968			The Birth House
Don McKay	1942		poet, essayist
Leo McKay, Jr.	1964		novelist, short stories	Twenty-Six, Like This
Bruce Alistair McKelvie	1889	1960	journalist, historian	Magic, Murder and Mystery
Ian McLachlan			novelist, playwright	The Seventh Hexagram
Stuart McLean	1948	2017	humorist, short stories	Welcome Home, Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Marshall McLuhan	1911	1980	academic
Susan McMaster	1950
Amber McMillan			writer	We Can't Ever Do This Again, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island, The Running Trees, This Is a Stickup
Sylvia McNicoll	1954
Florence McNeil	1932	2013	poet, playwright	Overlanders, Barkerville, Emily, Miss P. and Me
Marie McPhedran	1904	1974	novelist	Cargoes on the Great Lakes
Christopher Meades	1974		novelist, short stories	The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, The Last Hiccup, For The Love of Mary
John Melady
Lee Mellor	1982		true crime, music critic	Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
Rick Mercer	1969		comedian, television personality & writer, political satirist, and author	Rick Mercer Report, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, A Nation Worth Ranting About
Judith Merril	1923	1997	science fiction, editor
Mireille Messier	1971		children's literature	The Branch, The Magic Cap
Edmund Metatawabin	1948		memoirist	Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
John Metcalf	1938
Stéfani Meunier	1971		novelist, short stories	Une carte postale de l'océan
Sarah Mian			poet, novelist, short stories	When the Saints
Shayne Michael			poet	Fif et sauvage
Anne Michaels	1958		poet, novelist	Fugitive Pieces
Sean Michaels	1982		novelist, music critic	Us Conductors
Andrée A. Michaud	1957		novelist, playwright	Le ravissement, Mirror Lake, Bondrée
Marianne Micros	1943		short stories, poet	Eye
Jesse Edgar Middleton	1872	1960	journalist, historian, songwriter	Huron Carol, Toronto's 100 Years
Stevie Mikayne			mystery novelist, children's literature	UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts
Roy Miki	1942	2024
Ron Miksha	1954			Bad Beekeeping
Eleanor Millard	1942		novelist, memoirist, short stories	River Child, Journeys Outside and In, Summer Snow
John Miller	1968		novelist	The Featherbed, A Sharp Intake of Breath
Orlo Miller	1911	1993	historian, novelist
Kenneth G. Mills	1923	2004	poet
Christine Miscione			novelist, short stories	Auxiliary Skins, Carafola
Christian Mistral	1964		novelist, poet, songwriter	Vamp
Rohinton Mistry	1952		novelist	Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance
Jared Mitchell	1955
John Wendell Mitchell	1882	1951	novelist	The Yellow Briar
W. O. Mitchell	1914	1998	novelist, short stories	Who Has Seen the Wind, Jake and the Kid
Rick Mofina	1959		mystery, thriller	Blood of Others
Lucy Maud Montgomery	1874	1942	novelist, children's literature	Anne of Green Gables
Susanna Moodie	1803	1885	memoirist	Roughing it in the Bush
Brian Moore	1921	1999		Black Robe, The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Christopher G. Moore	1952		novelist, short stories	Vincent Calvino Private Eye series
Lisa Moore	1964		short stories, novelist
Jeffrey Moore			novelist	Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, The Memory Artists, The Extinction Club
Shani Mootoo	1958		novelist	Cereus Blooms at Night, Valmiki's Daughter, Polar Vortex
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon			poet
Pierre Morency	1942		poet, playwright
Bernice Morgan	1935
Dwayne Morgan	1974
Grace Jones Morgan	1884	1977	pulp
Jeffrey Morgan			rock critic, biographer, graphic novelist, poet	The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story, The Brides of Mister X
Tara Lee Morin			poet, memoirist	As I Remember It
Guillaume Morissette	1983		novelist
Kim Moritsugu			novels	Looks Perfect, The Glenwood Treasure
Donna Morrissey	1956
Kim Morrissey
Garry Thomas Morse			poet, novelist	Discovery Passages, Prairie Harbour
Colin Morton	1948			-
Marie Moser	1948		novelist, short stories	Counterpoint
Daniel David Moses	1952	2020	poet and playwright
Tara Moss	1973		novelist	Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess
Erín Moure	1955		poet
Farley Mowat	1921	2014	novelist, naturalist	Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
Claire Mulligan			novelist, short stories	The Reckoning of Boston Jim
Alice Munro	1931	2024	short stories	The Progress of Love, Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman
Jim Munroe	1945		science fiction	Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Everyone in Silico
Robert Munsch	1945		children's literature	Angela's Airplane, A Promise is a Promise, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess
Janet Munsil			playwright	Be Still, That Elusive Spark
Sachiko Murakami	1980		poet	The Invisibility Exhibit, Rebuild, Get Me Out of Here, Render
George Murray	1971		poet	The Hunter, The Rush to Here, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms
Morgan Murray			novelist	Dirty Birds
Sheila Murray			novelist, short stories	Finding Edward
John Murrell	1945	2019	playwright
Susan Musgrave	1951		poet, novelist	The Charcoal Burners, Cargo of Orchids
Maria Mutch			memoirist, short stories	Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
Téa Mutonji			short stories	Shut Up You're Pretty

N

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Ira Nadel	1943		biography, literary criticism	Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Joyce and the Jews: Culture and the Text, David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre, Tom Stoppard: A Life
Noor Naga			novelist	If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Hasan Namir	1987		novelist	God in Pink
Shenaaz Nanji	1954		young adult literature	Child of Dandelions
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk	1931	2007	novelist	Sanaaq
Akhtar Naraghi			novelist, poet	The Big Green House
André Narbonne			novelist, poet, short stories	Twelve Miles to Midnight, Lucien & Olivia
Angela Narth	1946		children's literature, non-fiction	Simon With Two Left Feet
Jim Nason			novelist, poet, short stories	The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow
Riel Nason			young adult novelist	The Town That Drowned
Dimitri Nasrallah	1977		novelist	Blackbodying, Hotline
Michael Nathanson			playwright	Talk
Blaise Ndala			novelist	J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Sans capote ni kalachnikov
Jen Neale			novelist	Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
Émile Nelligan	1879	1941	poet	Émile Nelligan et son œuvre
Max Nemni	1935	2024	political scientist, biographer	Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed
Monique Nemni	1936	2022	linguist, biographer	Young Trudeau, Trudeau Transformed
Pierre Nepveu	1946		poet, novelist	Romans-fleuves, Lignes aériennes, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
Sylvain Neuvel	1973		science fiction	Sleeping Giants
John Newlove	1938	2003	poet	Lies, The Night the Dog Smiled
Peter C. Newman	1929	2023	journalist	The Canadian Establishment
Vinh Nguyen			academic, memoirist	The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse
B. P. Nichol	1944	1988	poet	Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology
Cecily Nicholson	1974		poet	From the Poplars, Wayside Sang
Hal Niedzviecki	1971		novelist, critic	Ditch, We Want Some Too
Susin Nielsen	1964		children's and young adult literature	The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Frederick Niven	1878	1944	novelist	The Flying Years
Fraser Nixon			crime novelist	The Man Who Killed, Straight to the Head
Éric Noël	1984		playwright	Faire des enfants, L'Amoure Looks Something Like You, Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés
Francine Noël	1945		novelist, playwright	La Femme de ma vie
Henri Nouwen	1932	1996	theologian	The Wounded Healer, The Inner Voice of Love
Mary Novik	1945		novelist	Conceit
Alden Nowlan	1933	1983	poet	Bread, Wine and Salt, I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Roza Nozari			memoirist	All the Parts We Exile

O

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Keith Oatley	1939		novelist, psychology, scholar	The Case of Emily V, Understanding Emotions, Towards a cognitive theory of emotions
Sheldon Oberman	1949	2004	children's literature	The Shaman's Nephew
Theodore Odrach	1912	1964	novelist	Wave of Terror, The Village Teacher and Other Stories
Rohan O'Grady	1922	2014	novelist	Let's Kill Uncle, Pippin's Journal
Howard O'Hagan	1902	1982	novelist, short stories	Tay John
Alix Ohlin			novelist, short stories	Inside, Signs and Wonders
Vernon Oickle			journalist, folklore, ghost stories
Alexandra Oliver	1970		poet	Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Tolu Oloruntoba			poet	The Junta of Happenstance
Bryan Lee O'Malley	1979		graphic novelist	Scott Pilgrim
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
Michael Ondaatje	1943		novelist, poet	The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost
Heather O'Neill	1973		novelist	Lullabies for Little Criminals
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia			novelist	The Son of the House
Kenneth Oppel	1967		children's literature	Airborn Series, Silverwing saga
Stephen Osborne	1947		journalist	Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World
Gabriel Osson			novelist, poet, memoirist	Le jour se lèvera
Martha Ostenso	1900	1963	novelist, screenwriter	Wild Geese
Lawrence O'Toole			film critic, memoirist	Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home
Fernand Ouellette	1930		poet, novelist	Lucie ou un midi en novembre, Les Heures
Susan Ouriou	1955		novelist, short stories, translator	Damselfish
James Macdonald Oxley	1855	1907	novelist

P

Name	Born	Died	Genre	Notable works
Elizabeth Pacey			non-fiction	Miracle on Brunswick Street
Frank L. Packard	1877	1942	Novelist	The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Susan Paddon			poet	Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
P. K. Page	1916	2010	poet
Basil Papademos	1957		erotica	Mount Royal
Aaron Paquette	1974		young adult literature, fantasy	Lightfinder
Jivesh Parasram			playwright	Take d Milk, Nah?
Arleen Paré	1946		poet, novelist	Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains
Erna Paris	1938	2022	literary non-fiction	Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
Fawn Parker			novelist, poet, short stories	What We Both Know
Gilbert Parker	1862	1932	novelist	The Seats of the Mighty, The Lane that Had No Turning
Amy Parkinson	1855	1938	poet	Love Through All, Best
Jocelyn Parr			fiction	Uncertain Weights and Measures
Amanda Parris			playwright	Other Side of the Game
Markoosie Patsauq	1942	2020	fiction	Harpoon of the Hunter
Kevin Patterson	1964		novelist, memoirist	Country of Cold, Consumption, The Water in Between
Raymond M. Patterson	1898	1984
Philip Kevin Paul			poet	Taking the Names Down from the Hill, Little Hunger
Loghan Paylor			novelist, short stories	The Cure for Drowning
Joan Payzant	1925	2013	columnist, historical, 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
Soraya Peerbaye			poet, dramatist	Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Tell
Francine Pelletier	1959		science fiction, young adult literature
Fred Pellerin	1976		short stories
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez	1971		children's, memoirist, academic	Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant
Louise Penny	1958		mysteries	Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month
H. R. Percy	1920	1997	novelist, short stories	Painted Ladies
Susan Perly			novelist, short stories	Love Street, Death Valley
Amanda Peters			novelist, short stories	The Berry Pickers, Waiting for the Long Night Moon
Bradley Peters			poet	Sonnets from a Cell
Jordan Peterson	1962		applied psychology, philosophy, science, scholar	Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, Between Facets and Domains: 10 Aspects of the Big Five
Len Peterson	1917	2008
Zoey Leigh Peterson			novelist	Next Year, for Sure
Geneviève Pettersen	1982		novelist, blogger	La déesse des mouches à feu
Josephine Phelan	1905	1979	History, biography	The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. Darcy McGee
Edward O. Phillips	1931	2020	novelist	Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday
Wendy Phillips			children's literature	Fishtailing
Lorne Pierce	1890	1961	literary critic
Joseph Jomo Pierre			playwright	Shakespeare's Nigga
Emmanuelle Pierrot	1994		novelist	La version qui n'intéresse personne
Karen Pinchin			non-fiction	Kings of Their Own Ocean
Leslie Hall Pinder	1948	2021	fiction	On Double Tracks
Sarah Pinder			poet	Cutting Room, Common Place
William Ping			fiction	Hollow Bamboo
Joseph Pivato	1946		literary critic, editor	Echo: Essays on Other Literature, Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing
Hazel Jane Plante			novelist	Little Blue Encyclopedia , Any Other City
Michel Pleau	1964		poet	La lenteur du monde, La traversée de la nuit
Casey Plett	1987		short stories, novelist	A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of A Woman
Jacques Poitras			journalist, non-fiction	Beaverbrook : A Shattered Legacy, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future
Craig Poile			poet	First Crack, True Concessions
Daniel Poliquin	1953
Sharon Pollock	1936	2021
Michael Poole	1936	2010	non-fiction	Romancing Mary Jane
Helen Fogwill Porter	1930	2023	non-fiction, poet, novelist, playwright	Below the Bridge, Finishing School
Michelle Porter			novelist, poet, non-fiction	Inquiries, A Grandmother Begins the Story
Liza Potvin	1958		non-fiction	White Lies (for my mother)
Gabrielle Poulin	1929	2015	novelist, poet	La Couronne d'oubli, Le Livre de déraison
Jacques Poulin	1937	2025	novelist	Volkswagen Blues
Christine Pountney	1971		novelist	Last Chance Texaco
Joël Pourbaix	1958		poet	Le mal du pays est un art oublié
Steve Poutré	1979		novelist	Lait cru
B.W. Powe	1955		philosopher	A Canada of Light
Kerry Lee Powell			poet, short stories	The Inheritance, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
Craig Francis Power			novelist	Blood Relatives, The Hope, Skeet Love
Paul David Power			playwright	Crippled
Jen Powley	1977	2023	non-fiction, interactive fiction	Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis
E. J. Pratt	1883	1964	poet
Steven Price			poet, novelist	Anatomy of Keys, Into That Darkness
Robert Priest	1951		poet
Alex Pugsley	1963		novels, short stories, screenwriter	Dirty Singles, Aubrey McKee
Kate Pullinger	1961		novels, experimental/online fiction	The Mistress of Nothing
Al Purdy	1918	2000	poet
Andrew Pyper	1968	2025	novelist	Lost Girls, The Trade Mission