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List Of Canadian Short Story Writers
This is a list of Canadian short story writers. A *Gil Adamson *Caroline Adderson * Jean Marc Ah-Sen *Kelley Aitken *Donald Alarie *André Alexis * Nada Alic * Timothy J. Anderson *Gail Anderson-Dargatz *David Arnason *Margaret Atwood *Mona Awad B * Arjun Basu *Peter Behrens *Moe Berg * Kris Bertin *David Bezmozgis * Shashi Bhat *Sandra Birdsell *Dennis Bock *Maxime Raymond Bock * Kenneth Bonert *George Bowering *Joseph Boyden *Frances Boyle *Lois Braun *Krista Bridge *Ernest Buckler *Kayt Burgess *Bonnie Burnard C *Morley Callaghan *Roch Carrier *Kate Cayley * Michael Christie *Joan Clark * Austin Clarke *Lynn Coady * Devon Code * Matt Cohen * Christy Ann Conlin * Paige Cooper * Ann Copeland *Archie Crail *Isabella Valancy Crawford *Eva Crocker *Michael Crummey D *Robertson Davies * Elisabeth de Mariaffi * Anthony de Sa *Don Dickinson *Kildare Dobbs * Nina Dunic *Norma Dunning E * Evelyn Eaton *Caterina Edwards * George Elliott *Marina Endicott * Sharon English *Gloria Escome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Bertin
Kris Bertin is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection ''Bad Things Happen'' won the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2017 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia,"Author Kris Bertin seeks connections" '''', October 7, 2012. he was a longlisted nominee in 2012 for his short story "Is Alive and Can Move". His work has been published in '' |
Kayt Burgess
Kayt Burgess is a Canadian writer, who won the Three-Day Novel Contest in 2011 for her debut novel ''Heidegger Stairwell''."34th annual 3-Day International Novel Contest winner Kayt Burgess not daunted by deadlines" '''', October 4, 2012. Published by in 2012, the novel was subsequently a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 |
Ernest Buckler
Ernest Buckler (19 July 1908 – 4 March 1984) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer best known for his 1952 novel, ''The Mountain and the Valley'' and the short story ''The first born Son''. "Since its publication in 1954, Ernest Buckler's story of David Canaan's life in the Annapolis Valley, ''The Mountain and the Valley'', has gradually established itself as a touchstone of Canadian Modernism. Its continuing presence in Canadian Literature courses and its effect on such writers as Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro attest to its power as a novel exploring imaginative experience." (Van Rys 1995) Buckler was born in the village of West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, where he attended a one-room schoolhouse. He was a scholarship student at Dalhousie University (B.A., 1929), and a philosophy student at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1930). After graduation, he stayed in Toronto, working as an actuary, until 1936, when he returned to rural Nova Scotia, eventually settli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krista Bridge
Krista Bridge is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''The Eliot Girls'' was a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2014 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. . '''', March 5, 2014. She was also previously nominated for the and the for her sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Braun
Lois Braun (born 1949) is a Canadian writer. She was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1986 Governor General's Awards for her debut short story collection ''A Stone Watermelon'' published by Turnstone Press. Braun was born in Rosenfeld, Manitoba. Educated at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba, she worked as a school teacher in Altona until her retirement in 2003. She published three further collections of short stories, and won the Margaret Laurence Award from the Manitoba Book Awards in 2008 for ''The Penance Drummer''."Book awards something to howl about". ''Winnipeg Free Press The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as ...'', April 27, 2008. Works *''A Stone Watermelon'' (1986, ) *''The Pumpkin-Eaters'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Boyle
Frances Boyle (born 1954) is a Canadian writer from Ottawa, Ontario. Her debut short story collection ''Seeking Shade'', published in 2020, was nominated for the 2021 ReLit Award for short fiction and the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.Vicky Qiao"Jack Wang wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first short story collection for We Two Alone" CBC Books, May 28, 2021. She previously published the poetry collections ''Portal Stones'', ''Light-carved Passages'', ''Apples and Roses'' and ''This White Nest'', and the novella ''Tower''. References External links * 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women poets Canadian women novelists Canadian women short story writers Writers from Ottawa Living people 1954 births {{Canada-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Irish and Scottish descent. He also claims Indigenous descent, but this is widely disputed. Joseph Boyden is best known for writing about First Nations culture. ''Three Day Road'', a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, was inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper. Joseph Boyden's second novel, '' Through Black Spruce'', follows the story of Will, son of one of the characters in ''Three Day Road''. The third novel in the Bird family trilogy was published in 2013 as '' The Orenda''. Life and career Joseph Boyden grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario, and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School. The ninth of eleven children, he is the son of Blanche (Gosling) and Raymond Wilfrid Boyden, a medical officer renowned for his bravery, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was the most highl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bowering
George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. 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 author of more than 100 books. Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal ''TISH''. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Bonert
Kenneth Bonert is a South African-Canadian writer. His debut novel ''The Lion Seeker'' won both the 2013 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction and the 2013 Edward Lewis Wallant Award. ''The Lion Seeker'' was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction,"Kenneth Bonert's Jewish South African novel up for Governor General's prize" '''', October 2, 2013. and the 2013 |
Maxime Raymond Bock
Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2017 short story collection ''Les noyades secondaires'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. His debut short story collection ''Atavismes'' was published in 2011, and won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2012."La poésie comme mode de vie, en vain" '''', April 25, 2015. He followed up with the novellas ''Rosemont de profil'' in 2013 and ''Des lames de pierre'' in 2015. Both ''Atavismes'' and ''Des lames de pierre'' have been published in English tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Bock
Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, lecturer at the University of Toronto, travel writer and book reviewer. His novel ''Going Home Again'' was published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2013. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. ''Going Home Again'' earned a review in ''Kirkus Review''. ''The Communist's Daughter'', published by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US in 2006, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune. His first novel, ''The Ash Garden,'' about various kinds of fallout from the Hiroshima bomb, was published in 2001, and was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Regional Best Book). It won the 2002 Canada-Japan Literary Award and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
