- Margaret Atwood
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. - Carol Shields
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 her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, "The English Patient" - Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. - Antonine Maillet
Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10,1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Following high school, she received her BA from the Université de Moncton, followed by an MA from the same institution. She then received her PhD in literature in 1970 from the Université Laval. She taught literature and folklore at Laval, then in Montreal between 1971 to 1976. - Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. Born in Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy. After training as a teacher at The Winnipeg Normal School, she taught in rural schools in Marchand and Cardinal and was then appointed to Provencher School in Saint Boniface. With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, … - Timothy Findley
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O. Ont. (October 30, 1930 - June 21, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials. - Igor Gouzenko
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachev, Soviet Union - June 28, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. Gouzenko's defection exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the then-unknown technique of planting sleeper agents. - David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for "Small Gifts", … - Alice Munro
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 three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." - George Bowering
George Harry Bowering (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is one of a group of poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who were together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal "Tish". - Marian Engel
Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore was a Canadian novelist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and McGill University, where she wrote her Masters thesis on the English Canadian novel, under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan. She taught briefly at McGill and at the University of Montana. She married Howard Engel in 1962, and began to raise a family and pursue a writing career. - Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert (August 1, 1916 - January 22, 2000) was a Canadian author and poet. - Brian Moore
Brian Moore (August 25, 1921 - January 11, 1999) was a novelist. He published twenty novels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and also worked as a screenwriter. - Margaret Laurence
Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Neepawa, Manitoba, Laurence was the daughter of solicitor Robert Wemyss and Verna Jean Simpson. Following the death of her mother when Laurence was four, Margaret Simpson, a maternal aunt, came to take care of the family. A year later, Simpson married her father and in 1933 they adopted a son, Robert. In 1935, Robert Wemyss Sr. died of pneumonia. - Morley Callaghan
Edward Morley Callaghan, CC, LL.B., LL.M., LL.D., FRSC (September 22, 1903 - August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He never practiced law, however. During the 1920s he worked at the "Toronto Daily Star" where he became friends with fellow reporter, … - Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Henry Wiebe is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992. Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family’s chicken barn. For thirteen years he lived in an isolated community of about 250 people, as part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian west. - David Gilmour
David Gilmour (born 1949 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and television journalist. He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980, a post he held for four years. In 1986, he joined CBC Television as a film critic for "The Journal", eventually becoming host of the program's Friday night arts and entertainment magazine. In 1990, he began hosting "Gilmour on the Arts", an arts magazine series on CBC Newsworld. - Nino Ricci
Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in 1959 in Leamington, Ontario, into a family of Italian immigrants from the province of Isernia, Molise. In 1981 Ricci graduated in English literature, in 1987 he earned a second degree in creative writing and Canadian literature, both from York University. Ricci has travelled in Europe and Africa, where, in Nigeria, he taught English literature and language in a high school for two years. - Jacques Poulin
Jacques Poulin is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing. Often considered the most North American of the Quebec authors writing in French. Although it is not widely known by the general public, his work is studied widely in both French and English Canada. Poulin studied psychology and arts at the Université Laval in Quebec City; he started his career as commercial translator and later became a college guidance counsellor. - Jane Urquhart Oc
Jane Urquhart, OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author. - Paul Quarrington
Paul Lewis Quarrington (born July 22, 1953) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and musician. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he grew up in the suburb of Don Mills and studied at the University of Toronto, although he failed to graduate. Quarrington wrote his early novels while working as the bass player for the group Joe Hall and the Continental Drift. - Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais CC, OQ (born 5 October 1939) is a Canadian author and playwright. - Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler ("touche-à-tout"), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life. - Jacques Ferron
Jacques Ferron was a Canadian physician and author. Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On March 5, 1931, his mother died. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf but was expelled in 1936. He continued his education at Collège Saint-Laurent and then was readmitted at Jean-de-Brébeuf, only to be expelled again. In September 1941, he was accepted at Université Laval where he studied medicine, and on July 22, … - Nancy Huston
Nancy Louise Huston (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and auto-translates, that is, she translates her own works into English. - Hugh Garner
Hugh Garner was a Canadian novelist. Born in Batley, England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States, and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he served in the Canadian navy. Following the war, Garner concentrated on his writing. He published his first novel, "Storm Below", in 1949. - Aki Shimazaki
Aki Shimazaki (born 1954 in Gifu, Japan) is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. She has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French, since 1991. Her second novel, "Hamaguri", won the Prix Ringuet in 2000. Her fourth, "Wasurenagusa", won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2002. Her fifth, "Hotaru", won the 2005 Governor General's Award for French fiction. - Bertram Brooker
Bertram Richard Brooker was a Canadian writer, painter, musician, and advertising agency executive. Born in Croydon, England, to Richard Brooker and Mary Ann (Skinner) Brooker, he moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1905 with his family. In 1913 he rented a movie theatre in Neepawa, Manitoba. That same year he married Mary Aurilla (“Rill”) Porter. In 1914 he became editor of the "Portage Review", a local newspaper. - Élise Turcotte
Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer who was born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the University of Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, … - Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Barney's Version", and the Jacob Two-Two children's stories. Richler's uncompromising opinions on contemporary Canada easily matched, … - Thomas Head Raddall
Thomas Head Raddall was a Canadian writer best known for his historical fiction. Born at Hythe, Kent, England, Raddall was the son of British army officer Thomas Head Raddall and Ellen (née Gifford) Raddall. In 1913, he and his family moved to Nova Scotia, where his father had assumed a training position with the Canadian Militia. When World War I began, the elder Raddall joined the war effort. He was killed in action in August 1918 at Amiens when Thomas was still a youth. - Jacques Brault
Jacques Brault is a French Canadian poet and translator who currently lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on Radio-Canada. - Douglas Lepan
Douglas Valentine LePan (25 May 1914 - 27 November 1998) was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature. Born in Toronto, Ontario, LePan was educated at the University of Toronto, at Harvard (where he also taught briefly in the late 1930s), and at Merton College, Oxford University. During the Second World War he was on staff at the Canadian High Commission in London and then served in the Canadian Army as an artilleryman during the Italian campaign. - Jack Hodgins
Jack Hodgins (born October 3, 1938) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia, where he was encouraged by Earle Birney. Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is "Broken Ground" (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. - Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature. Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1976. He subsequently worked with several Franco-Ontarian theatre companies, including as a co-founder of Ottawa's Théâtre de la Vieille 17 in 1979. He was also associated with the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury for several years, … - Gloria Sawai
Gloria Sawai BA, MFA (born Gloria Ruth Ostrem 20 December 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American-born fiction author currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In early childhood, she moved with her family to Saskatchewan, then in her youth to Alberta. Her father was a Lutheran minister - Gilles Archambault
Gilles Archambault is a Canadian/"Québécois" novelist. He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work, and a Governor General's Award in 1987 for "L'obsédante obèse et autres aggressions", a collection of short prose pieces. He has also written extensively about jazz. - Lise Tremblay
Lise Tremblay is a French Canadian novelist. Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. In recent years, she has been teaching literature in Montreal at Cégep du Vieux Montréal. - Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews, (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian novelist, humorist and actor of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal, and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her 2004 novel "A Complicated Kindness" was her breakthrough work, …
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