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Margaret Atwood

She is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, teacher and political activist.

Margaret Doody

He graduated from English Literature at Oxford University. He has been a teacher at several universities, running comparative literature courses at th...

Yann Martel

Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain. Son of Nicole Perron and Emile Martel, French-Canadian. His father was appointed as a diplo...

Alice Munro

Canadian narrator, especially of stories. It is considered one of the most prominent writers in English today. In 2013 he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Michael Ondaatje

Novelist and Canadian poet, known by "The English Patient.".

Louise Penny

Canadian writer, author of the saga of which Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the protagonist, set in the Québec.

David Szalay

David Szalay (Montreal, 1974) is a Canadian, British and Hungarian novelist. Raised in London and educated at Oxford, he now lives in Vienna. The auth...

Pierre Szalowski

Pierre Szalowski is a Canadian writer and novelist. In 2009 he won the Grand Prix of the Relève littéraire Archambault.

Alfred Elton van Vogt

He was a Canadian writer specializing in science fiction.