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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 ...
short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...
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Gil Adamson
Gillian "Gil" Adamson (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian writer. She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel ''The Outlander''.
Adamson's first published work was ''Primitive'', a volume of poetry, in 1991. She foll ...
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Caroline Adderson
Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published four novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.
Personal life and career
Caroline Adderson was born on September ...
Kelley Aitken
Kelley Aitken is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and art instructor.
Aitken was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Fine Arts. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled ...
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Donald Alarie
Donald Alarie (born 4 July 1945) is a writer from Quebec.
Alarie was born in Montreal to Jean-Paul Alarie and his wife Thérèse (née Raymond). He graduated from University of Montreal in 1971, and worked as a teacher at the Cégep régional de ...
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André Alexis
André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian novelist.
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David Arnason
David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Life
Born in Gimli, Manitoba, Arnason is of Icelandic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son ...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...
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Mona Awad
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Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and i ...
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Moe Berg
Morris Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Although he played 15 seasons in the major leagues, ...
David Bezmozgis
David Bezmozgis ( lv, Dāvids Bezmozgis; born 1973) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, currently the head of Humber College's School for Writers.
Life and career
Educational background
Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family ...
Sandra Birdsell
Sandra Louise Birdsell, CM (née Bartlette) (born 22 April 1942) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage from Morris, Manitoba.
Life and career
Born in Hamiota, Manitoba, Birdsell was the fifth of eleven ch ...
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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 Alfr ...
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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 t ...
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 o ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.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 Bu ...
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Kayt Burgess
Kayt Burgess is a Canadian writer, who won the Three-Day Novel Contest in 2011 for her debut novel ''Heidegger Stairwell''.Bonnie Burnard
Bonnie Burnard (January 15, 1945 – March 4, 2017) was a Canadian short story writer and novelist, best known for her 1999 novel, ''A Good House'',Morley Callaghan
Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
Biography
Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 192 ...
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Roch Carrier
Roch Carrier (born 13 May 1937) is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.
Life
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Kate Cayley
Kate Cayley is a Canadian writer and theatre director. She was the artistic director of Stranger TheatreMichael Christie
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Joan Clark
Joan Clark BA, D.Litt. (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama progr ...
Archie Crail
Archie Crail (born 1944 in Paarl, South Africa)"Can't feel safe, even in Saskatchewan". ''Windsor Star'', February 3, 1995. is a South African-Canadians, Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-la ...
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer.
"Crawford is increasingly being viewed as Canada's first maj ...
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Eva Crocker
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection ''Barrelling Forward'' was published in 2017.
The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker, she was a ...
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Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Early life and education
Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundl ...
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Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) 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" ...
Don Dickinson
Don Dickinson (born December 27, 1974) is a Canadian writer and actor, born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on December 27, 1947. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1991 Governor Gene ...
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Kildare Dobbs
Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs (10 October 1923 – 1 April 2013) was a Canadian short story and travel writer.
Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World Wa ...
Norma Dunning
Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection ''Annie Muktuk and Other Stories''. In the same year, she won t ...
Caterina Edwards
Caterina Edwards LoVerso (born 1948) is a Canadian writer and teacher. Edwards was born in Earls Barton, England. Her mother was born in Lussino, Istria, and her father is from a Welsh and English family. Edwards eventually moved to Calgary ...
Marina Endicott
Marina Endicott (born September 14, 1958) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her novel, ''Good to a Fault'', won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. Her next, ''The ...
Gloria Escomel
Gloria Escomel (born October 15, 1941) is a Uruguayan-born Canadian writer.Bill Marshall, Will Kaufman, Cristina Johnston, eds. ''France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History''. p. 418. ABC-CLIO, 2005. . She first moved from Uruguay t ...
Jon Paul Fiorentino
Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and professor.
Fiorentino was born and raised in the Transcona area of Winnipeg, Manitoba. In his book of poems, ''Resume Drowning'', he wrote that because he has res ...
Cynthia Flood
Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940)"Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 25, 1990. is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald C ...
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Tess Fragoulis
Tess Fragoulis is a Canadian writer and educator. Born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where she attended Concordia University. Her first book, ''Stories to Hide from Your Mother'' (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1997), was ...
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Raymond Fraser
Raymond Fraser (May 8, 1941 – October 22, 2018) was a Canadian biographer, editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet and short story writer. Fraser published fourteen books of fiction, three of non-fiction, and eight poetry collections. Fras ...
Mavis Gallant
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, , née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
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Hugh Garner
Hugh Garner (February 22, 1913 – June 30, 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.
Biography Early life
Hugh Garner was born on February 22, 1913, in Batley, Yorkshire, England. He came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in ...
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Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist.
Biography
Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journali ...
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Elyse Gasco
Elyse Gasco (born 1967) is a Canadian fiction writer. She is a recipient of the Journey Prize, QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and the QSPELL/FEWQ First Book Award,
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing fir ...
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Bill Gaston
Bill Gaston (born January 14, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia. Aside from teaching at various univ ...
Danuta Gleed
Danuta Gleed (1946 – 11 December 1996) was a Kenyan-born Canadians, Canadian writer.
Biography
She was born in Kenya in a British camp for displaced persons where she spent her early childhood. In 1958, her family moved to England. At the time ...
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John Gould
John Gould (; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, ...
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Katherine Govier
Katherine Mary Govier (born July 4, 1948) is a Canadian novelist and essayist.
Biography
Katherine Govier was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and was educated at the University of Alberta and York University. She has been made a Distinguished Alumna ...
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Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.
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R. W. Gray
Robert (R. W.) Gray is a Canadian writer, filmmaker and academic.
Originally from Prince Rupert, British Columbia,Brett Josef Grubisic, "Short story collection takes several dreamlike turns". ''Vancouver Sun'', May 30, 2015. he was educated at th ...
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Robert Joseph Greene
Robert Joseph Greene (born January 11, 1973) is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction, best known for ''The Gay Icon Classics of the World'', a collection of gay-themed love stories from over 12 different countries. Each story represents a cul ...
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Stephen Guppy
Stephen Guppy (born February 10, 1951, in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer.
Jane Eaton Hamilton
Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet, who goes by "Hamilton", 2021 legal name “Eaton Hamilton" and uses they/their pronouns.
Hamilton has published the novel ''Weekend'' (Arsenal P ...
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Kevin Hardcastle
Kevin Hardcastle (born August 8, 1980) is a Canadian fiction writer, whose debut short story collection ''Debris'' won the Trillium Book Award in 2016 and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction in 2017.Sydney Hegele
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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel '' The Book of Negroes,'' inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the A ...
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Greg Hollingshead
Gregory Hollingshead, CM (born February 25, 1947) is a Canadian novelist. He was formerly a professor of English at the University of Alberta, and he lives in Toronto, Ontario.Hugh Hood
Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC (b in Toronto, Ontario 30 Apr 1928 – d in Montreal, Quebec 1 Aug 2000) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.
Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age ...
George K. Ilsley
George K. Ilsley (born 1958) is a Canadian writer. He has published a collection of short stories, ''Random Acts of Hatred'', which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood, and a novel, ''ManBug''. His new mem ...
Lorna Jackson
Lorna Jackson (October 25, 1935 – April 5, 2002) was a local politician in Vaughan for 28 years. During her career, she served as both a local and a regional councillor, as well as serving as the Mayor of Vaughan for 20 years. She died w ...
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Mark Anthony Jarman
Mark Anthony Jarman (born 11 June 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian fiction writer. Jarman's work includes the novel ''Salvage King, Ya!'', the short story collection ''Knife Party at the Hotel Europa'' and the travel book ''Ireland's Eye. ...
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Greg Kearney
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for ''Xtra!'' from 1999 to 2005, and published his debut short story collection ''Mommy Daddy Baby'' in 2004.
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W. P. Kinsella
William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella (May 25, 1935September 16, 2016) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel ''Shoeless Joe'' (1982), which was adapted into the movie ''Field of Dreams'' in 1989. His work often concern ...
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Greg Kramer
Greg Kramer (11 March 1961 – 8 April 2013)Richard Burnett"Remembering Greg Kramer". ''Xtra!'', 10 April 2013. was a British-Canadian author, actor, director, and magician. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in 198 ...
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Aaron Kreuter Aaron Kreuter is a Canadian writer based in Toronto, Ontario.
He published his debut poetry collection ''Arguments for Lawn Chairs'' in 2016, and followed up with his first short story collection, ''You and Me, Belonging'', in 2018.
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Early life
Kuitenbrouwer was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto.
Career
Her debut short story collection, ''Way Up'', was published in ...
Margaret Laurence
Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-pr ...
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known ...
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John B. Lee
John Busteed Lee (born 1951) is a Canadian author and poet who is Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario. He has received more than 60 prestigious international awards for poetry.
Biography
Early life
Born in Highgate, Ontario, Lee was rais ...
Carrianne Leung
Carrianne Leung is a Canadian writer, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2019 for her short story collection ''That Time I Loved You''.Norman Levine
Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a Canadian short story writer, novelist and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for his terse prose. Though he was part of the St. Ives artistic community in Cornwall, and friends with ...
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Billie Livingston
Billie Livingston is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Livingston grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver.
Her critically acclaimed first novel, ''Going Down ...
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of m ...
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Paul Marlowe
Paul Marlowe is a Canadian author of historical fiction and science fiction. Much of his historical fiction is connected in some way with the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society devoted to investigating unusual or supernatural phenome ...
Yann Martel
Yann Martel, (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel ''Life of Pi'', an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent ...
Oonah McFee
Oonah McFee, née Browne (September 11, 1916 – December 19, 2006) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award for her 1977 novel ''Sandbars''."And the winner is..." ''The Globe and Mail'', Ap ...
Stuart McLean
Andrew Stuart McLean, (April 19, 1948 – February 15, 2017) was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program ''The Vinyl Cafe''.Eugene McNamara Eugene Joseph McNamara (1930 in Oak Park, IL – September 17, 2016 in Windsor, Ontario) was a poet, author and teacher, and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. He founded and edited th ...
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...
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Sheila Murray
Sheila Murray is a Canadian writer.Téa Mutonji
Téa Mutonji is a Canadian writer and poet, whose debut short story collection ''Shut Up You're Pretty'' was published in 2019.Sue Carter"Vivek Shraya's book imprint launches with Scarborough author Tea Mutonji" ''Toronto Star'', April 12, 2019.
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Darlene Naponse
Darlene Naponse is an Anishinaabe filmmaker, writer, director, and community activist from Canada. She is most noted for her 2018 film ''Falls Around Her'', which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 and subs ...
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André Narbonne
André Narbonne is a Canadian writer,Trevor Wilhelm"Windsor’s Black Moss Press and writer Andre Narbonne score first Giller nod" ''Windsor Star'', September 8, 2022. whose novel ''Lucien & Olivia'' was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.
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Alden Nowlan
Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright.
History
Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor ...
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Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill (born 1973) is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist, who published her debut novel, '' Lullabies for Little Criminals'', in 2006. The novel was subsequently selected for the 2007 edition of ' ...
Fred Pellerin
Fred Pellerin (born November 22, 1976) is a Canadian musician and storyteller from Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec. He is a three-time Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year, garnering nominations at the Juno Awards of 2011 for ''S ...
Casey Plett
Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel '' Little Fish'' and Giller Prize-nominated short story collection ''A Dream of a Woman''.
Personal life
Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Menno ...
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Andy Quan
Andy Quan (born 7 July 1969) is a Canadian author who now lives in Sydney. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact. Quan is openly gay.
Quan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia ...
Kenneth Radu
Kenneth Radu is a Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1988 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection ''The Cost of Living''."Senneville author Radu wary ...
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Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Arabic: أحمد داني رمضان; born May 31, 1984) is a Syrian–Canadian novelist, public speaker, and LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in Canada, LGBTQ-refugee activist who was born in Damascus, Syria. Ramadan's work f ...
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Zalika Reid-Benta
Zalika Reid-Benta is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection ''Frying Plantain'' has been nominated and won numerous awards. The book is a collection of linked short stories centering on the coming of age of Kara Davis, a young Jam ...
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and ''Barney's Version (novel), Barney's Versi ...
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Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian list of science fiction authors, science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 198 ...
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Patrick Roscoe
Patrick Roscoe is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and actor.
Early years
Roscoe was born in Trail, British Columbia, Canada and grew up in Tanzania, England, Port Hardy, Victoria and Vancouver. Roscoe moved from Canada to California i ...
Sinclair Ross
James Sinclair Ross, CM (January 22, 1908 – February 29, 1996) was a Canadian banker and author, who wrote novels and short fiction about life on the Canadian Prairies. He is best known for his first novel, '' As For Me and My House''.
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Stuart Ross
Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.
Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age ...
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Andrea Routley
Andrea Routley is a Canadians, Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia."Crush worthy" ...
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Naben Ruthnum
Naben Ruthnum is a Canadian writer, who has published work under both his own name and the pen name Nathan Ripley.
He won the Journey Prize in 2013 for his short story "Cinema Rex", and has since published the books ''Curry: Reading, Eating and R ...
Sarah Selecky
Sarah Selecky (born 17 September 1974) is a Canadian writer. Her debut short story collection '' This Cake Is for the Party'' was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 20 ...
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Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel '' The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well a ...
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Mireille Silcoff
Mireille Silcoff (born February 1, 1973 in Montreal) is a Canadian author, journalist, and editor. She is the author of four books, including the award-winning work of fictioChez L'arabe(Anansi). Silcoff was a longstanding columnist with the Nation ...
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Antanas Sileika
Antanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika; born 1953) is a Canadian-Lithuanian novelist and critic.
Biography
Sileika was born in 1953 in Weston, Ontario to Lithuanian-born parents.
After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he ...
Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and chemist.
Life and early career
He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. From August 2006 u ...
Rae Spoon
Rae Spoon is a Canadian musician and writer. Their musical style has varied from country to electronic-influenced indie rock and folk punk.Eva Stachniak
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Joel A. Sutherland
Joel A. Sutherland (born 1 December 1980) is a Canadian author of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include ''Frozen Blood'' and the ''Haunted Canada'' series. Sutherland's ...
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Shawn Syms
Shawn Syms (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and activist on LGBT issues and other aspects of progressive politics based in Toronto, Ontario.
From 1988 until 1992, he was one of the editors and publishers of ''Rites'', a Canadian monthly magazine o ...
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in '' Harper's Magazine'', and in 2020 her short story collection '' How to Prono ...
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Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien (; born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature'' has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expres ...
Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Parr Traill (born Strickland; 9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life in Canada, particularly what is now Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada). In the 1830s, Canada ...
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Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart, LL.D (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her e ...
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, ''The Englishman's Boy'', '' The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Can ...
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Tracey Waddleton
Tracey Waddleton (born September 1, 1979) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador. Her debut short story collection, ''Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious'', was the 2020 winner of the ReLit Award for short fiction.
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