This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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- Ken Babstock
- R. Scott Bakker
- Himani Bannerji
- Bruce Barber
- Gary Barwin (born 1964) novelist and children's author
- Bill Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Henry Beissel, (born 1929)
- Ken Belford
- William E. Bell (author)
- Nigel Bennett
- Pierre Berton (1920-2004) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Gerard Bessette (born 1920), Québécois author
- Navtej Bharati, Indo-Canadian poet
- Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels
- Earle Birney (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Bill Bissett (born 1939) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lise Bissonnette
- Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)
- Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
- Clark Blaise (born 1940)
- Christian Bök (born 1966), poet, author of Eunoia
- Stephanie Bolster
- Roo Borson, (born 1952)
- Hédi Bouraoui
- George Bowering (born 1935)
- Marilyn Bowering (born 1949), poet and novelist
- David Boyd
- George Elroy Boyd
- Harry J. Boyle
- Karleen Bradford
- Dionne Brand (1953- ) poet born in Trinidad and Tobago
- Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Jacques Brault (1933- )
- Nathan Braun, Good News for All Creation (co-author) and The History and Philosophy of Marriage (4th ed., editor)
- Brian Brett
- Robert Bringhurst (1946- ) poet, author, and typographer
- David Bromige (1944- ) poet
- Barry Broadfoot (1926-2003) interviewer, author
- Bertram Brooker theosophist painter
- Nicole Brossard (1943- ) formalist poet
- Nick Brune
- Ernest Buckler (1908-1984), novelist
- Robert Budde (1966- ) poet and novelist
- Margaret Buffie
- Bonnie Burnard (1945- ) novelist, The Good House
- Mick Burrs
- Sharon Butala (1940- )
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- 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)
- 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), humorist
- Austin Clarke (born 1934)
- George Elliott Clarke (born 1960) poet, U of T professor
- Lynn Coady (born 1970)
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet and singer
- Matt Cohen (born 1942)
- John Robert Colombo (born 1936), poet and compiler of reference books
- Jan Conn (born 1952), poet and insect geneticist
- Karen Connelly (born 1969)
- George Ramsay Cook (born 1931), historian
- Hugh Cook (born 1942)
- Michael Cook
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944)
- Douglas Cooper, novelist
- Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965), historical fiction
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Donald Creighton (1902-1979), historian
- Octave Crémazie (1827-1879), French-Canadian poet
- Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
- Lorna Crozier (born 1948)
- Michael Crummey
- Alan Cumyn (born 1960)
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski (born 1949), author, poet, and eMedia artist
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- Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (1916-2003), historian, philosopher
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson (1947- )
- Jacques Ferron (1921-1985), playwright
- Joy Fielding (1945- ), novelist
- Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), The Wars, Pilgrim
- Ken Finney, (1959-), "3D Game Programming All In One", "Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One"
- Sheree Fitch
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Helen Forrester (1919- ), novelist
- Cecil Foster
- Tess Fragoulis
- Brad Fraser
- Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.
- Sylvia Fraser (1935- ), novelist
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- David French (1939- ), playwright
- Patrick Friesen
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Robert Fulford autodictat, journalist
- Nicola Furlong
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- Mavis Gallant (born 1922)
- Francois Xavier Garneau (1809-1866), writer and historian
- Hector de 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
- John Patrick Gillese
- Joanna Glass
- Jacques Godbout
- 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
- Frederick Phillip Grove (1879-1948)
- Genni Gunn (born 1949)
- Kristjana Gunnars
- Ralph Gustafson (1909-1995), poet
- Sandra Gwyn (born 1935), novelist
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- Joan Haggerty
- Roderick Haig-Brown (1941- )
- Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton One of Canada's first authors, writer of The Clockmaker series
- Claire Harris (1937- )
- Marjorie Harris
- Jill Hartman
- Kristen den Hartog
- Elisabeth Harvor
- Barbara Haworth-Attard (1953- )
- Anne Hébert, Acadian author, educator Kamouraska
- Steven Heighton
- David Helwig
- Louis Hémon (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
- John Herbert (playwright), author of Fortune and Men's Eyes
- Sheila Heti
- Tomson Highway (1951- ) native playwright Dry Lips Moved to Kapuskasing
- Robert Hilles (1951- )
- Jack Hodgins (1938- )
- Greg Hollingshead (1947- )
- Michael Honeth (1970- )
- Hugh Hood (1928-2000), Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Cornelia Hoogland (1952- )
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Harold Horwood (1923- )
- Tanya Huff
- Matt Hughes
- Bruce Hunter
- Catherine Hunter
- Maureen Hunter
- Nancy Huston (born 1953)
- Hazel Hutchins
- Bruce Hutchison
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- Agnes Maule Machar
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Bernell MacDonald, (born 1950)
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald
- Maggie MacDonald
- Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
- //digital.library.upenn.edu/women/garvin/poets/mackay.html 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)
- Robert Majzels
- //www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/mandel_e.html Eli Mandel
- //www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005064 Miriam Mandel
- David Manicom (born 1960) poet, novelist, diplomat.
- Lee Maracle (born 1950) poet/novelist from the Squamish First Nation. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.
- Daphne Marlatt (born 1942)
- 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
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- 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
- Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author
- Susan McMaster
- Sylvia McNicoll
- John Metcalf (born 1938)
- Anne Michaels
- Roy Miki
- Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance
- W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), Who has Seen the Wind
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
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- Thomas Raddall (1903-1994), historical novelist
- Mark A. Rayner
- Gurcharan Rampuri
- Angela Rawlings
- Wayne Ray short stories
- Michael Redhill
- Nino Ricci (born 1959)
- David Adams Richards, (1950- )
- Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- Ringuet (Phllipe Panneton) (1895-1960)
- Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943) author of a number of "animal stories"
- Ken Roberts
- Paul William Roberts
- Eden Robinson
- Peter Robinson (1950-), English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
- Ajmer Rode Indo-Canadian writer, bilingual, poet, playwright, translator
- Spider Robinson American born Science-Fiction/humour writer, "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon"
- Richard Rohmer (born 1924)
- Linda Rogers
- Leon Rooke (born 1934)
- Patrick Roscoe
- Sinclair Ross 1908-1996, renowned short story author
- Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)The Tin Flute
- Jane Rule (born 1931)
- George Ryga (1932-1987), playwright and novelist
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- Michelle Sagara West, fantasy author
- Dorianne Sager
- Rick Salutin (born 1942), political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul, (born 1947) businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)
- Andreas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- Frank Scott (1899-1985), poet
- Djanet Sears, playwright and actor
- Benjamin Sehene (born 1959 in Rwanda novelist, essayist, and political writer
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet of the Yukon
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
- Mark Shainblum
- Murphy O. Shewchuk
- Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
- Maggie Siggins
- Jaspreet Singh
- Marsha Skrypuch
- Josef Skvorecky (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia, professor of English in Canada since 1969, but still writing his fiction in Czech), novelist, essayist, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984 Governor General's Award)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), sailor and author
- Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)
- Jean Edward Smith
- Michael V. Smith
- Russell Smith
- Evan Solomon
- Raymond Souster (born 1921), poet
- Esta Spalding
- Birk Sproxton (1943- )
- Richard Stevenson
- Walter Stewart (1941-2004)
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Robert Sward
- George Swede
- Alastair Sweeny
- Scott Symons
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- Fred Wah
- Bronwen Wallace
- Agnes Walsh, poet and playwright, In the Old Country of My Heart
- R. W. Watkins, poet
- David Watmough
- Sheila Watson (1909-1998),
- Alison Wearing
- Marc Weisblott (1971-), Canada's first professional blogger
- Elizabeth Wellburn
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali (1972- ), poet, songwriter
- Thomas Wharton
- Rudy Wiebe (1934- ), novelist
- Ethel Wilson (1888-1980), Swamp Angel, Hettie Dorval, "The Window"
- Rob Winger
- Michael Winter
- Adele Wiseman (1928-1992), novelist and poet
- George Woodcock (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist, author of Anarchism
- Marnie Woodrow
- Lance Woolaver
- Eric Wright (1929- ), mystery writer
- L.R. Wright
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See also
Liste des auteurs canadiens
Lists of writers | Canadian writers | Canadian culture