Carol Shields

Carol Shields

female, deceased (2003)
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadianwomenwriter, 1993 Governor General's Awards, The Stone Diaries, Women novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…American Canadian, Canadian, Canadian Slavonic Papers
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for...
Marian Engel

Marian Engel

female, deceased (1985)
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadianwomenwriter, From sarnia, Officer of the Order of Canada, Feminist, Canadian…children's writer, Ontario writer, writer
Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore was a Canadian novelist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and McGill U...

Anne Hébert

female, deceased (2000)
Quebec writer, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadianwomenwriter, Japanese, Companion of the Order of Canada, Italian…Canadian, Canadian writer in French
Anne Hébert (August 1, 1916 - January 22, 2000) was a Canadian author and poet.
Alice Munro

Alice Munro

female, 78 years old
Women short story writer, Canadian of English descent, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadianwomenwriter, Canadian of Scottish descent, Governor General's Award…Women writer, Short story writer, Canadian
Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a t...
Ethel Wilson

Ethel Wilson

female, deceased (1980)
Canadianwomenwriter, The Other Side of Silence A Life of Ethel Wilson, University of British Columbia, Canadian, port elizabeth, Short story writer…Canadian Medical Association
Ethel Davis Wilson (January 20 1888 - December 22, 1980) was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels. Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa,...
Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson

female, 48 years old
Jamaican women writer, Jamaican expatriate in Canada, Canadianwomenwriter, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Brown Girl in the Ring, James Tiptree, Jr. Award…LGBT writer, Black Canadian, Canadian, science fiction writer, writer
Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels ("Brown...
Jane Rule

Jane Rule

female, 78 years old
Jane Vance Rule, Canadianwomenwriter, American expatriate writer in Canada, Member of the Order of Canada, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia…writer, Canadian, American Canadian, LGBT writer
Jane Vance Rule, C.M., O.B.C. (born March 28, 1931) is a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey,...
Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave

female, 58 years old
Canadianwomenwriter, Queen Charlotte Islands, bank robber, Stephen Reid, Canada Reads 2006, Canada Reads…children's writer, Canadian
Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and...
Lee Maracle

Lee Maracle

female, 59 years old
Canadianwomenwriter, Simon Fraser University alumni, from vancouver, Canadian, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, En’owkin International School of Writing…First Nations writer
Lee Maracle (born July 2, 1950) is a Canadian First Nations poet and author. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she grew up in the neighbouring...
Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

female, 74 years old
Obasan, Canadianwomenwriter, Order of British Columbia, internment camps, Naomi's Road, Joy Nozomi Kogawa…Canadian, Japanese Canadian
Joy Nozomi Kogawa (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia,...