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List Of Canadian WritersThis is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. - See also A B - Ken Babstock
- D.F. Bailey
- Himani Bannerji
- Volodimir Barabash (1900-1989), poet
- Bruce Barber
- Steve Bareham
- Gary Barwin (born 1964) novelist and children's author
- Ronald Bates
- Bill Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Henry Beissel, (born 1929)
- William Bell
- Nigel Bennett
- Pierre Berton (born 1920) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Gerard Bessette (born 1920), Quebecois author
- Carol Biberstein, children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
- Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels
- Earle Birney (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Bill Bissett (born 1939) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lise Bissonnette
- Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)
- Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
- Clark Blaise (born 1940)
- Christian Bk (born 1966), poet, author of Eunoia
- Stephanie Bolster
- Roo Borson, (born 1952)
- Hdi Bouraoui
- Nicholas Boving
- George Bowering (born 1935)
- Marilyn Bowering (born 1949), poet and novelist
- David Boyd
- George Elroy Boyd
- Catherine Bradford
- Karleen Bradford
- Max Braithwaite (1911-1995) prairie depression era fiction
- Dionne Brand (1953- ) poet born in Trinidad
- Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Jacques Brault (1933- )
- Brian Brett
- Robert Bringhurst (1946- ) poet, author, and typographer
- David Bromige (1944- ) poet
- Barry Broadfoot (1926-2003) interviewer, author
- Bertram Brooker theosophist painter
- Nicole Brossard (1943- ) formalist poet
- Robert Budde (1966- ) poet and novelist
- Margaret Buffie
- Bonnie Burnard (1945- ) novelist, The Good House
- Mick Burrs
- Sharon Butala (1940- )
- Anthony M. Buzzelli
C - Barry Callaghan (born 1937) novelist and journalist
- Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private Place
- Elspeth Cameron, (born 1943) biographer
- Silver Donald Cameron (born 1937)
- James Cameron (born 1910) poet and critic
- Phil Campagna
- Natalee Caple
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929) poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
- David Carpenter
- Roch Carrier (born 1937) French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote La Guerre, Yes Sir!, as well as the children's story The Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey)
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- Gillian Chan
- Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), first historian of New France.
- Wayson Choy (born 1939)
- Lesley Choyce (born 1951)
- Greg Clark (1892-1977), humourist
- Austin Clarke (born 1934)
- George Elliott Clarke (born 1960) poet, U of T professor
- Lynn Coady (born 1970)
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet and singer
- Matt Cohen (born 1942)
- Samuel Nathan Cohen (1923-1971) drama critic
- Helena Coleman
- John Robert Columbo (born 1936), poet and compiler of reference books
- Karen Connelly (born 1969)
- Ralph Conner (also known as Charles William Gordon), The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days.
- George Ramsay Cook (born 1931), historian
- Hugh Cook (born 1942)
- Michael Cook
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944)
- Doug Cooper
- John Paul Copeland
- Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965), historical fiction
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Donald Creighton (1902-1979), historian
- Octave Crmazie (1827-1879), French-Canadian poet
- Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
- Lorna Crozier (born 1948)
- Michael Crummey
- Peter Cummings
- Alan Cumyn (born 1960)
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski (born 1949), author, poet, and eMedia artist
D E F - Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (1916-2003), historian, philosopher
- Edmundo Farolan
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson (1947- )
- Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), playwright
- Joy Fielding (1945- ), novelist
- B.K. Filson
- Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), The Wars, Pilgrim
- Sheree Fitch
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Barbara Fletcher
- Helen Forrester (1919- ), novelist
- Cecil Foster
- Tess Fragoulis
- Brad Fraser
- John Anderson Fraser (1944- ), author former editor of Saturday Night Magazine
- Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.
- Sylvia Fraser (1935- ), novelist
- Louis Frchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- David French (1939- ), playwright
- Patrick Friesen
- Robert Froetsch
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Robert Fulford autodictat, journalist
- Nicola Furlong
- James V. Fusco
G - Grover Gall
- Mavis Gallant (born 1922)
- Francois Xavier Garneau (1809-1866), writer and historian
- Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943), poet
- Hugh Garner (1913-1979), novelist
- Pauline Gedge (born 1945), novelist
- Camilla Gibb (born 1968), novelist
- Graem C. Gibson (born 1934), novelist
- Margaret Gibson
- William Gibson (born 1948) Pioneering cyberpunk author, Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties
- Sky Gilbert
- Joanna Glass
- Jacques Godbout
- David Godfrey
- Robert Goldsmith (1794-1861), first English-language Canadian poet
- Leona Gom
- Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926), poet and science-fiction writer
- Sondra Gotlieb (born 1936), newspaper columnist
- Hiromi Goto
- Katherine Govier (born 1948)
- Lee Gowan
- Barbara Gowdy (born 1950) The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
- Neile Graham
- George Grant (1918-1988), historian
- Ed Greenwood, fantasy novelist and Forgotten Realms creator
- Grey Owl (1888-1938), conservationist
- John Grey
- Frederick Phillip Grove (1879-1948)
- Richard Grove
- Genni Gunn (born 1949)
- Kristjana Gunnars
- Ralph Gustafson (1909-1995), poet
- Sandra Gwyn (born 1935), novelist
H I J K L M - Agnes Maule Machar
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Bernell MacDonald, (born 1950)
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald
- Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
- Michael MacLennan
- Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936)
- Elizabeth Macleod, biographer
- Antonine Maillet (born 1929), Acadian author, educator
- Kevin Major (born 1949)
- Eli Mandel
- Miriam Mandel
- David Manicom (born 1960) poet, novelist, diplomat.
- Lee Maracle (born 1950) Poet/novelist from the Squamish Nation. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.
- Daphne Marlatt (born 1942)
- John Marlyn, (1912-1985)
- David Margoshes (born 1941)
- Nicole Markotic
- Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
- Carol Matas (born 1949)
- Shirlee Smith Matheson
- Steve McCaffery
- Nellie McClung, crusading journalist, MP
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), ("In Flanders' Fields")
- David McFadden
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Don McKay poet
- Rhonda McLean
- Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author
- Susan McMaster
- Robert McNeil
- Sylvia McNicoll
- John Metcalf (born 1938)
- Anne Michaels
- Christine Michels
- Roy Miki
- Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance
- Jane Mitchell
- Jared Mitchell
- W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), Who has Seen the Wind
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
- Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
- Brian Moore (1921-1999)
- Jeffrey Moore (born 1952)
- Lisa Moore
- Keith Moreau, (born 1951), writer and illustrator of children's books like ABC Fun Things Book
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
- Pierre Morency (born 1942), poet and playwright
- Bernice Morgan
- Donna Morrissey
- Kim Morrissey
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses, Aboriginal poet and playwright
- Tara Moss (born 1973) - wrote Fetish
- Erin Moure
- Farley Mowat, (born 1921) Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
- Karen Mulholland
- Robert Munsch (born 1945), American born writer of children's stories
- Allison Muri
- Alice Munro, (born 1931)
- Jim Munroe
- John Murrell
- Jai Murugan
- Susan Musgrave (born 1951), poet and novelist
N O P Q R S - Michelle Sagara West, fantasy author
- Rick Salutin (born 1942), political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul, (born 1947) businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)
- Andreas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- Duncan Scott (1862-1947), poet
- Frank Scott (1899-1985), poet
- Djanet Sears, playwright and actor
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet of the Yukon
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
- Mark Shainblum
- Murphy O. Shewchuk
- Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
- Maggie Siggins
- Marsha Skrypuch
- Josef Skvorecky (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia, professor of English in Canada since 1969, but still writing his fiction in Czech), novelist, essayist, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984 Governor General%27s Award)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), sailor and author
- Beverly Slopen
- Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)
- Russell Smith
- Taylor Smith
- Evan Solomon
- Raymond Souster (born 1921), poet
- Esta Spalding
- Adrian Speyer (1977-), poet and author
- Birk Sproxton (1943- )
- Richard Stevenson
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Samuel Strickland, (1804-1867) Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
- Rosemary Sullivan
- Rita Summers
- James L. Swanson
- Robert Sward
- Mark Swartz
- George Swede
- Scott Symons
- Anne Szumigalski
T U V W - Fred Wah
- Bronwen Wallace
- Ted Warnell
- David Watmough
- Sheila Watson (1909-1998),
- Alison Wearing
- John Weier
- Elizabeth Wellburn
- Frank Westcott
- Mavis West
- Thomas Wharton
- Rudy Wiebe (1934- ), novelist
- Diana Wieler, Bad Boy, Drive
- Ethel Wilson (1888-1980), Swamp Angel, Hettie Dorval, "The Window"
- Rob Winger
- Michael Winter
- Adele Wiseman (1928-1992), novelist and poet
- Beverly Wood
- George Woodcock (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist, author of Anarchism
- Patrick Woodcock
- Marnie Woodrow
- Lance Woolaver
- Eric Wright (1929- ), children's mystery writer
- L.R. Wright
Y Z See also Canadian
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