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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonnet L'Abbé | poet | A Strange Relief, Killarnoe | |
| Larissa Lai | b. 1967 | novelist | When Fox Is a Thousand |
| Vincent Lam | b. 1974 | medical writer, novelist | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures |
| Tim Lander | b. 1938 | poet | Street Heart Poems |
| Patrick Lane | b. 1939 | poet | Poems, New and Selected |
| Annette Lapointe | b. 1978 | novelist | Stolen |
| Evelyn Lau | b. 1971 | poet, novelist, memoirist | Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid |
| Margaret Laurence | 1926–1987 | novelist | The Stone Angel, The Diviners |
| Mary Lawson | b. 1946 | novelist | Crow Lake |
| Irving Layton | 1912–2006 | poet | A Wild Peculiar Joy |
| Jack Layton | 1950–2011 | non-fiction | Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis |
| Stephen Leacock | 1869–1944 | humorist | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
| Dennis Lee | b. 1939 | poet | Garbage Delight, Alligator Pie, Civil Elegies |
| JJ Lee | non-fiction | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit | |
| Jen Sookfong Lee | novelist | The End of East | |
| John B. Lee | b. 1951 | poet | The Pig Dance Dreams, Variations on Herb |
| Nancy Lee | b. 1970 | short stories | Dead Girls |
| Ronald Lee | b. 1934 | novelist | Goddam Gypsy |
| Sky Lee | b. 1952 | short stories, novelist | Disappearing Moon Cafe |
| Mark Leiren-Young | b. 1962 | playwright | Blueprints from Space |
| Roger Lemelin | 1919–1992 | novelist, essayist | The Town Below |
| John Lent | 1948–2006 | poet, novelist | So it Won't Go Away |
| Douglas LePan | 1914–1998 | poet, novelist | The Deserter |
| Norman Levine | 1923–2005 | short stories | One Way Ticket, Thin Ice |
| Shar Levine | b. 1953 | children's science | Extreme 3-D Weird Animals, Fun with Your Microscope |
| Naomi K. Lewis | 1976– | novelist & non-fiction | Cricket in a Fist |
| Wyndham Lewis | 1882–1957 | novelist | The Apes of God |
| Michael Lista | b. 1983 | poet | Bloom |
| Jean Little | b. 1932 | novelist | Mine for Keeps |
| Dorothy Livesay | 1909–1996 | poet | Day and Night, Poems for People |
| Billie Livingston | b.1965 | novelist, short stories, poet | Going Down Swinging, Cease to Blush, Greedy Little Eyes |
| Douglas Lochhead | b. 1922 | poet | High Marsh Road, Shepherds Before Kings, The Millwood Road Poems |
| Malcolm Lowry | 1909–1957 | novelist | Under the Volcano |
| Pat Lowther | 1935–1975 | poet | Milk Stone, A Stone Diary |
| Pearl Luke | b. 1958 | novelist | Burning Ground, Madame Zee |
| Janet Lunn | b. 1928 | children's literature | The Root Cellar, The Hollow Tree |
| Annabel Lyon | b. 1970 | novels, short stories | The Golden Mean |
| Eswyn Lyster | 1923–2009 | war brides, war author | Most Excellent Citizens, A Bloody Miracle |
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