Canada
See also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers
- Ranj Dhaliwal, author of Daaku
- Margaret Atwood (born 1939), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Pierre Berton (1920–2004 )
- Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
- Morley Callaghan (1903–1990) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
- Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Robertson Davies (1913–1995), author of Fifth Business
- Réjean Ducharme
- Louis Emond
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 1968)
- Timothy Findley (1930–2002) (See also France)
- Gayleen Froese
- Donald Jack,
- Hugh MacLennan,
- Margaret Laurence,
- Stephen Leacock
- Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
- Rohinton Mistry (born 1952)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)
- Susanna Moodie, (1803–1885)
- Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)
- Farley Mowat
- Alice Munro (born 1931)
- Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), author of The English Patient (1993)
- Mordecai Richler (1931–2001), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983)
- Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947)
- Carol Shields (1935–2003)
- Catharine Parr Traill (1802–1899)
- Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972)
- Jane Urquhart (born 1949)
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Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)