List of Canadian writers
This list includes both English-speaking and French-speaking authors from Canada .
A.
- Milton Acorn (1923-1986)
- Ian Adams (born 1937)
- Linda Aksomitis (* 1951)
- Charlotte Vale Allen (pseud. Katherine Marlowe) (* 1941)
- Grant Allen (1848-1899)
- Sidney Allinson
- George Amabile (* 1936)
- Rod Anderson (born 1935)
- Hubert Aquin (1929–1977)
- Gilles Archambault (* 1933)
- Jeannette C. Armstrong (* 1948) First Nations
- David Arnason (* 1940)
- Ryad Assani-Razaki (* 1981)
- Margaret Atwood (* 1939)
- Margaret Avison (1918-2007)
- Phillipe-Ignace Francois Aubert du Gaspe (1814–1841)
B.
- DF Bailey
- Himani Bannerji (* 1942)
- Volodimir Barabash (1900-1989)
- Bruce Barber (born 1950)
- Steve Bareham
- Joan Barfoot (born 1946)
- Gary Barwin (born 1964)
- Gurjinder Basran (* 1972)
- Ronald Bates
- Bill Bauer (1932-2010)
- Nancy Bauer (* 1934)
- Henry Beissel (* 1929)
- William Bell (born 1945)
- Nigel Bennett (born 1949), actor, fantasy literature
- David Bergen (* 1957)
- Pierre Berton (1920–2004), popular history books
- Dennison Berwick (* 1956)
- Gérard Bessette (1920-2005)
- Carol Biberstein
- Sandra Birdsell (* 1942)
- Earle Birney (1904-1995)
- Bill Bissett (born 1939)
- Neil Bissoondath (* 1955)
- Marie-Claire Blais (* 1939)
- Clark Blaise (* 1940)
- Fred Bodsworth (1918-2012)
- Christian Bok (* 1966)
- Stephanie Bolster (* 1969)
- Roo Borson (born 1952)
- Michel Marc Bouchard (* 1958)
- Nicholas Boving
- Gail Bowen (born 1942)
- George Bowering (* 1935), seal
- Marilyn Bowering (born 1949)
- Elisabeth Bowers (* 1949), crime thriller
- David Boyd (born 1953)
- George Elroy Boyd
- Catherine Bradford
- Karleen Bradford (born 1936), children's author
- Max Braithwaite (1911-1995)
- Jacques Brault (* 1933)
- Dionne Brand (* 1953), African American activist
- Beth Brant (1941-2015), First Nations (Mohawk)
- Di Brt (* 1952)
- Jacques Brault (* 1933)
- Brian Brett (born 1950)
- Robert Bringhurst (* 1946)
- David Bromige (* 1944)
- Bertram Brooker (1888–1955)
- Nicole Brossard (* 1943)
- Sharon Brown (born 1946)
- Robert Budde (* 1966)
- Margaret Buffie (born 1945), children's author
- Bonnie Burnard (born 1945)
- Mick Burrs (born 1940)
- Catherine Bush (born 1961)
- Sharon Butala (* 1940)
- Anthony M. Buzzelli
C.
- Barry Callaghan (born 1937)
- Morley Callaghan (1903-1990)
- Anne Cameron (* 1938)
- Elspeth Cameron (born 1943)
- Silver Donald Cameron (* 1937)
- James Munro Cameron (1910-1995)
- Phil Campagna
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
- David Carpenter (born 1941)
- Emily Carr (1871–1945), also an artist
- Roch Carrier (* 1937)
- Anne Carson (born 1950)
- Gillian Chan
- Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761)
- Normand Chaurette (* 1954)
- Wayson Choy (1939-2019)
- Leslie Choyce (born 1951)
- Greg Clark (1892–1977)
- Austin Clarke (1934-2016), African American writer
- George Elliott Clarke (* 1960), African American literary scholar
- Lynn Coady (born 1970)
- Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), also a singer / songwriter
- Matt Cohen (1942-1999)
- Samuel Nathan Cohen (1923–1971)
- Helena Coleman
- John Robert Columbo (* 1936)
- Karen Connelly (* 1969)
- Ralph Conner (AKA Charles William Gordon)
- George Ramsay Cook (1931-2016)
- Hugh Cook (born 1942)
- Michael Cook (1933-1994)
- Dennis Cooley (* 1944)
- Doug Cooper
- John Paul Copel
- Claudia Maria Cornwall (* 1948)
- Thomas Costain (1885-1965)
- Douglas Coupland (* 1961)
- Gil Courtemanche (1943-2011)
- Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), from Dublin
- Donald Creighton (1902–1979)
- Claude Cremazie (1827–1879)
- Lynn Crosbie
- Lorna Crozier (* 1948)
- Peter Cummings
- Alan Cumyn (* 1960)
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski (* 1949)
- Gilles Cyr (* 1940)
D.
- Annie Charlton Dalton
- Daniel Danis (* 1962)
- Geena Dare (collective pseudonym)
- Frank Davey (* 1940)
- Robertson Davies (1913-1995)
- David Day (* 1947), J. R. R. Tolkien researcher
- Mazo de la Roche (1879–1961)
- Jeanne-Mance Delisle
- Sra Dempsey
- Barry Dempster
- William Deverell (* 1937)
- Alexander K. Dewdney (* 1941)
- Christopher Dewdney (* 1951)
- Don Dickinson (* 1947)
- Nicolas Dickner (* 1972)
- Kildare Dobbs (* 1923)
- Don Domnski (* 1950)
- Hélène Dorion (* 1958)
- Heather Down
- Cas Dorsey (* 1960)
- William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
- Marcel Dubé (* 1930)
- René-Daniel Dubois (* 1955)
- Réjean Ducharme (1941-2017)
- Louis Dudek (1918-2001)
- Dave Duncan (1933-2018), Fantasy
- Margaret Dyment
E.
- Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)
- Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954)
- Esi Edugyan (* 1978)
- Marina Endicott (born 1958)
- Howard Engel (1931-2019)
- Marian Engel (1933–1985)
- Steven Erikson (born 1959), Fantasy
- Allen Roy Evans (1885-1965)
- CJ Everon (born 1971)
F.
- Emil Fackenheim (1916-2003)
- Ava Farmehri
- Edmundo Farolan
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson (* 1947)
- Will Ferguson
- Ian Ferguson
- Jacques Ferron (1921–1985)
- Joy Fielding (* 1945), thriller
- BK Filson
- Timothy Findley (1930-2002)
- Sheree Fitch
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Barbara Fletcher
- Cynthia Flood (born 1940)
- Naomi Fontaine (* 1987)
- Katherine V. Forrest (* 1939), crime novel
- Helen Forrester (1919-2011)
- Cecil Foster
- Tess Fragoulis
- John Anderson Fraser (born 1944)
- Raymond Fraser
- Sylvia Fraser (* 1935)
- Carole Fréchette (* 1949)
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908)
- David French (1939-2010)
- Patrick Friesen
- Robert Froetsch
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
- Robert Fulford
- Nicola Furlong
- James V. Fusco
G
- Grover Gall
- Mavis Gallant (1922-2014)
- Jonathan Garfinkel (* 1973)
- Francois Xavier Garneau (1809–1866)
- Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943)
- Hugh Garner (1913–1979)
- Claude Gauvreau (1925–1971)
- Pauline Gedge (* 1945), entertainment, subject: ancient Egypt
- Camilla Gibb (* 1968)
- Graeme Gibson (1934-2019)
- Margaret Gibson (1948-2006)
- William Gibson (* 1948)
- Danuta Gleed (1946–1996)
- Joanna Glass (born 1936)
- Terry Glavin (* 1955)
- Jacques Godbout (* 1933)
- David Godfrey
- Robert Goldsmith (1794–1861)
- Leona Gom (* 1946)
- Beth Goobie (* 1959)
- Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), poetry, science fiction
- Sondra Gotlieb (* 1936)
- Hiromi Goto
- Katherine Govier (born 1948)
- Barbara Gowdy (* 1950)
- Neile Graham
- Alain Grandbois (1900–1975), poetry
- George Grant (1918–1988)
- Frederick Philip Grove (1879-1948)
- Richard Grove
- Christian Guay-Poliquin (* 1982)
- Genni Gunn (* 1949)
- Ralph Gustafson (1909-1995)
- Sra Gwyn (* 1935)
H
- Joan Haggerty
- Roderick Haig-Brown (* 1941)
- Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), thriller
- Jane Hamilton
- Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
- Claire Harris (* 1937)
- Marjorie Harris
- Lisi Harrison (* 1975), books for young people
- Sabrina Ward Harrison (* 1975), Self-Help
- Diana Hartog (* 1942), poems, historical novel
- Elisabeth Harvor
- Barbara Haworth-Attard (* 1953)
- Anne Hébert (1916-2000)
- Steven Heighton
- Louis Hémon (1880–1913), from Brest
- Lee Henderson (* 1974), short stories and historical novels
- James Heneghan (* 1930), children's and youth literature
- John Herbert (1926-2001), Dramas
- Tomson Highway (born 1951)
- Lawrence Hill (born 1957)
- Robert Hilles (* 1951)
- Jack Hodgins (born 1938)
- Pauline Holdstock (* 1948), historical novels, essays
- Greg Hollingshead (born 1947)
- David Homel (* 1952)
- Hugh Hood (1928-2000)
- Cornelia Hoogl (* 1952)
- Nalo Hopkinson (* 1960)
- Jan Horner
- Polly Horvath (* 1957), books for children and young people
- Harold Horwood (1923-2006)
- Tanya Huff (* 1957), fantasy
- Matthew Hughes (born 1949), science fiction; Crime fiction under the name Matt Hughes
- Bruce Hunter
- Catherine Hunter
- Maureen Hunter (* 1948)
- Nancy Huston (born 1953)
- Hazel Hutchins
- Bruce Hutchison (1901-1992)
I.
- Michael Ignatieff (* 1947), politician, historian
- Susan Ioannou (* 1944)
- Frances Itani (* 1942)
- Joan Irvine
J
- Donald Jack (1924-2003)
- J. Robert Janes (* 1932)
- KV Johansen (* 1968)
- Rita Joe (1932-2007), First Nations, Mi'kmaq , Poetry
- Pauline E. Johnson
- Andy Jones
- Terry Jordan
- John Joyce
K
- Surjeet Kalsey
- Smaro Kamboureli
- Welwyn Wilton Katz
- Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954), entertainment, fantasy
- Lionel Kearns (* 1937)
- Adam Kidd
- Crawford Kilian
- Crad Kilodney
- WP Kinsella (* 1935)
- Thomas King (* 1943), First Nations
- Alex Kizuk
- Raymond Knister (1899-1932)
- Joy Kogawa (born 1935)
- Sergio Kokis (* 1944)
- Lawrence Kootnikoff
- Gordon Korman
- Myrna Kostash
- Henry Kreisel (1922–1991)
- Robert Kroetsch (1927-2011)
- Robert N. Kucey (* 1940)
L.
- Tim Ler
- Patrick Lane (born 1939)
- André Langevin (* 1927)
- Paul-Marie Lapointe (* 1929)
- Rina Lasier (1910–1996)
- Evelyn Lau (* 1971)
- Margaret Laurence (1926–1987)
- Irving Layton (1912-2006)
- Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
- Dennis Lee (* 1939)
- Sky Lee
- Gene Lees (1928-2010), music critic
- Mark Leiren-Young (* 1962)
- John Lent
- Charles Lillard (1944–1997), poet and historian
- Charles de Lint (* 1951), fantasy
- Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996)
M.
- Rozena Maart (born 1962)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald (* 1958)
- Bernell MacDonald (born 1950)
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald
- Marianne MacDonald (* 1934)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
- Agnes Maule Machar
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Rory MacLean (1954)
- Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990)
- Alistair MacLeod (1936-2014)
- Elizabeth Macleod
- Antonine Maillet (* 1929)
- André Major (* 1942)
- Kevin Major (* 1949)
- Lee Maracle
- Philip Marchand (* 1946)
- Jovette Marchessault (* 1933)
- Daphne Marlatt (* 1942)
- John Marlyn (1912–1985)
- David Margoshes (* 1941)
- Nicole Markotic
- Katherine Marlowe (aka Charlotte Vale Allen ) (* 1941)
- Paul Marlowe
- Yann Martel (* 1963)
- Carol Matas (* 1949)
- Shirlee Smith Matheson
- Steve McCaffery (born 1947)
- Nellie McClung (1873-1951)
- John McCrae (1872-1918)
- David McFadden
- James McIntyre (1827-1906)
- Don McKay
- Barry McKinnon (born 1944)
- Rhonda McLean
- Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
- Susan McMaster
- Robert McNeil
- Sylvia McNicoll
- George McWhirter (* 1939)
- Eli Mel
- Miriam Mel
- Judith Merril (1923-1997)
- John Metcalf (* 1938)
- Anne Michaels (* 1958)
- Christine Michels
- Roy Miki
- Margaret Millar (1915-1994)
- Gaston Miron (1928-1996)
- Rohinton Mistry (* 1952)
- Jane Mitchell
- Jared Mitchell
- WO Mitchell (1914-1998)
- Charles Montgomery (* 1968)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
- Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)
- Brian Moore (1921-1999)
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
- Keith Moreau (* 1951)
- Pierre Morency (* 1942)
- Bernice Morgan (born 1935)
- Kim Morrisse
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses
- Tara Moss (* 1973)
- Erin Moure
- Wajdi Mouawad (* 1968)
- Farley Mowat (1921-2014)
- Karen Mulholl
- Alice Munro (* 1931)
- Robert Munsch (* 1945)
- Allison Muri
- John Murrell
- Jai Murugan
- Susan Musgrave (* 1951)
N
- Brian Nation
- Rosemary Neering (* 1945)
- Émile Nelligan (1879-1941)
- John Newlove
- Peter C. Newman (born 1929)
- George D. Nicholls
- Kimberley Nickmann
- bpNichol (1944–1988)
- James Norman
- Mary Novik (* 1945)
- Alden Nowlan (1933-1983)
O
- Sheldon Oberman
- Christopher Ondaatje (* 1933), travel writer
- Michael Ondaatje (* 1943)
- Kenneth Oppel (* 1967), Fantasy, SF
- Victor Ostrovsky (* 1949), Israeli soldier, books on the Mossad
- Fernand Ouellette (* 1930)
- Gray Owl (1888–1938), the "English Karl May" of Canada
P
- PK Page (1916-2010)
- Fiona Patton (born 1962), fantasy
- Stan Persky (* 1941), cultural critic
- Len Peterson
- Marjorie Pickthall
- Ted Plantos
- Simone Poirier-Bures
- Daniel Poliquin
- Sharon Pollock (* 1936)
- Jacques Poulin (* 1937), Quebec
- EJ Pratt (1882–1964)
- Robert Priest
- Annie Proulx (born 1935)
- Jean Baptiste Proulx (1846-1904)
- Monique Proulx (* 1952)
- Al Purdy (1918-2000)
Q
- Darlene Quaife (* 1948)
- Paul Quarrington (born 1953)
R.
- Thomas Raddal (1903-1994)
- Gurcharan Rampuri
- Gayla Reid (born 1945)
- Nino Ricci (born 1959)
- David Adams Richards (born 1950)
- Mordecai Richler (1931-2001)
- Gwen Pharis Ringwood
- Ringuet ( Phillipe Panneton ) (1895-1960)
- Sir Charles GD Roberts (1860-1943)
- Ken Roberts
- Paul William Roberts
- Eden Robinson (* 1968)
- Spider Robinson (* 1948)
- Esther Rochon (* 1948)
- Don Rogalski
- Richard Rohmer (* 1924)
- Linda Rogers
- Jean-Pierre Ronfard (* 1929)
- Leon Rooke (born 1934)
- Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011)
- Joe Rosenblatt (1933-2019)
- Sinclair Ross (1908-1996)
- Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983)
- Jane Rule (1931-2007)
- George Ryga (1932–1987)
S.
- Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943)
- Rick Salutin (* 1942)
- Jocelyne Saucier (* 1948)
- John Ralston Saul (born 1947)
- Robert J. Sawyer (* 1960)
- Bill Schermbrucker (* 1938)
- reas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
- Frank Scott (1899–1985)
- Shyam Selvadurai (* 1965)
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
- Doris Shadbolt (1918-2003)
- Mark Shainblum
- Murphy O. Shewchuk
- Carol Shields (1935-2003)
- Marsha Skrypush
- Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909)
- Beverly Slopen
- Elizabeth Smart (1913-1986)
- Russell Smith (born 1963)
- Taylor Smith (born 1953)
- Raymond Souster (* 1921)
- Esta Spalding
- Birk Sproxton (* 1943)
- Richard Stevenson
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Samuel Strickl (1804–1867)
- Rita Summers
- James L. Swanson
- Robert Sward
- Mark Swartz
- George Swede
- Anne Szumigalski
T
- Kevin Taylor
- Yves Theriault (1915-1983)
- Sharon theses
- Madeleine Thien (* 1974)
- Audrey Thomas (* 1935)
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
- John Thompson (1938-1976)
- Elizabeth Thornton
- Morley Torgov (born 1927)
- Catharine Parr Traill (née Strickl) (1802–1899)
- Rhea Tregebov
- Gail Tremblay * 1945
- Michel Tremblay (* 1942)
- Dietmar Trommeshauser
- Maxine Trottier
- Stuart Douglas Trueman
- Elise Turcotte
- Michael Turner * 1962
U
- Jane Urquhart (* 1949)
V
- WD Valgardson (born 1939)
- Edo Van Belkom
- Guy Verhaeghe (born 1951)
- Kees Verhayden
- Brain Verlip
- Aritha van Herk (* 1954)
- AE van Vogt (1912-2000)
- MG Vassanji
W.
- Fred Wah (born 1939)
- Bronwen Wallace (1945-1989)
- Chris Walter (* 1959)
- Ted Warnell
- David Watmough
- Sheila Watson (1909-1998)
- Alison Wearing
- John Weier
- Helen Weinzweig (1915-2010)
- Elizabeth Wellburn
- Frank Westcott
- Mavis West
- Robert Paul Weston (* 1975), temporarily living in Canada
- Thomas Wharton (* 1963)
- Rudy Wiebe (* 1934)
- Diana Wieler
- David Ricardo Williams (1923-1999)
- Ethel Wilson (1888-1980)
- Robert Charles Wilson (* 1953)
- Carol Windley (born 1947)
- Rob Winger
- Adele Wiseman (1928-1992)
- Beverly Wood
- George Woodcock (1912-1995)
- Patrick Woodcock
- Lance Woolaver
- Eric Wright (1929-2015)
- LR Wright (1939-2001)
- Ronald Wright (* 1948)
Y
- Ying Chen (1961)
- Alissa York (born 1970)
- Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
- Patricia Young (* 1954)
- Scott Young (1918-2005)
Z
- Robert LJ Zenik (* 1950)
- Jan Zwicky (* 1955)
See also
- List of Canadian poets
- List of English speaking writers
- List of authors (international)
- List of biographies (international)
- Portal: Canada