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- Akhtar Naraghi
- Roger Nash (born 1942), English-born philosopher, poet and academic
- Lyle Neff (born 1969), poet, journalist, essayist and literary critic
- Lorri Neilsen Glenn, poet, ethnographer, essayist and academic
- Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), francophone poet from Quebec
- Holly Nelson, writer, poet, activist, journalist, leader of the Green Party of Manitoba (2005–2006)
- Pierre Nepveu (born 1946), French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
- W. H. New (born 1938), poet, editor and literary critic
- bpNichol Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (1944–1988), poet and writer
- John Newlove (1938–2003)
- Alden Nowlan (1933–1983), poet, novelist, playwright and journalist
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