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Canadian literature, the Glossary

Canadian literature is written in several languages including English, French, and to some degree various Indigenous languages.^[1]

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A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1995.

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Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Agnes Strickland

Agnes Strickland (18 July 1796 – 8 July 1874) was an English historical writer and poet.

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Al Purdy

Alfred Wellington Purdy (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic.

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The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and The Walrus to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.

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Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award was presented annually by the Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA) to an outstanding illustrator of a new Canadian children's book.

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Ann Connor Brimer Award

The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature is a $2,000 annual award given to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to literature for young people.

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Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.

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Anne Hébert

Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet.

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Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries.

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Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery).

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Annie Campbell Huestis

Annie Campbell Huestis was a Canadian poet.

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Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet, (born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar.

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Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet.

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Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers.

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Aurora Awards

The Aurora Awards (Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year.

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Austin Clarke (novelist)

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield "Tom" Clarke, (July 26, 1934 – June 26, 2016), was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Barometer Rising

Barometer Rising is a romantic-realist novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.

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Barry Dempster

Barry Edward Dempster (born 17 January 1952) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.

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Basodee

Basodee: An Anthology Dedicated to Black Youth (2012), edited by Fiona Raye Clarke, is a youth-created and youth-centred anthology created by a Black writing collective in honour of Black History Month, and authentic diversity in Canada.

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Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen.

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Bliss Carman

William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame.

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Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Canada Reads

Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian Centenary Series

The Canadian Centenary Series is a nineteen-volume history of Canada published between 1963 and 1987 as an extended Canadian Centennial project.

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Canadian content

Canadian content (abbreviated CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels) must produce and broadcast a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.

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Canadian English

Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.

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Canadian French

Canadian French (français canadien) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada.

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Canadian nationalism

Canadian nationalism seeks to promote the unity, independence, and well-being of Canada and the Canadian people.

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Canadian poetry

Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada.

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Canadian science fiction

A strong element in contemporary Canadian culture is rich, diverse, thoughtful and witty science fiction.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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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.

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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).

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles G. D. Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer.

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Christian Bök

Christian Bök, FRSC (born August 10, 1966, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works.

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Cinema of Canada

Cinema in Canada dates back to the earliest known display of film in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in 1896.

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Clara Thomas

Clara Thomas (née McCandless; May 22, 1919 – September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Confederation Poets

Confederation Poets is the name given to a group of Canadian poets born in the decade of Canada's Confederation (the 1860s) who rose to prominence in Canada in the late 1880s and 1890s.

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Conquest of New France

The conquest of New France (La Conquête) the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763 started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763.

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Danuta Gleed Literary Award

The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian national literary prize, awarded since 1998.

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Daphne Marlatt

Daphne Marlatt, born Buckle, CM (born July 11, 1942 in Melbourne, Australia), is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Dayne Ogilvie Prize

The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community.

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De Niro's Game

De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.

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Doug Wright Award

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004) are literary awards handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to Canadian cartoonists honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) and graphic novels published in English (including translated works).

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Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer.

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E. Pauline Johnson

Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Earle Birney

Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honour, for his poetry.

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Eli Mandel

Eli Mandel (December 3, 1922 – September 3, 1992) was a Canadian poet, editor of many Canadian anthologies, and literary academic.

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Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award

The Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award is an annual literary award for children's picture illustrators.

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English Canada

English Canada comprises that part of the population within Canada, whether of British origin or otherwise, that speaks English.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Farley Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.

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Faye Hammill

Faye Hammill FRSE is a professor in the University of Glasgow, specialising in North American and British modern writing in the first half of the twentieth century, what is often called 'middlebrow'.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award was a Canadian literary award given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company, and having performances in the Toronto area.

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Frances Brooke

Frances Brooke (Moore; 12 January 1724 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.

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Francis Joseph Sherman

Francis Joseph Sherman (February 3, 1871 – June 15, 1926) was a Canadian poet.

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Frank Davey

Frankland Wilmot Davey, FRSC (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

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Fred Wah

Frederick James Wah, OC, (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels

italic is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association), which runs the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Fugitive Pieces

Fugitive Pieces is a novel by the Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels.

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Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature.

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Geoffrey Bilson Award

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year.

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George Bowering

George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer.

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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015, and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Gerald Lampert Award

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.

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Giller Prize

The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

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Governor General's Awards

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.

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Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's poetry award.

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Henri-Raymond Casgrain

Henri-Raymond Casgrain (December 16, 1831 – February 11, 1904) was a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest, author, publisher, and professor of history.

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Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (more commonly,; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac: Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Hugh MacLennan

John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University.

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Indigenous literatures in Canada

Indigenous peoples of Canada are culturally diverse. Canadian literature and Indigenous literatures in Canada are English-language literature.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Indigenous Voices Awards

The Indigenous Voices Awards are a Canadian literary award program, created in 2017 to honour Indigenous literatures in Canada.

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International Booker Prize

The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.

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International Dublin Literary Award

The International Dublin Literary Award (Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Irish Canadians

Irish Canadians (Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland.

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Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet.

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Jamie Reid

Jamie Macgregor Reid (16 January 1947 – 8 August 2023) was an English visual artist.

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Jeannette Armstrong

Jeannette Christine Armstrong (Okanagan: lax̌lax̌tkʷ; born 1948) is a Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist.

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This is a list of key Jewish-Canadian authors, with an article and critical history to follow.

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Journey Prize

The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short stories published by an emerging writer in a Canadian literary magazine.

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Karen Solie

Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet.

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Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock (born 19 January 1970) is a Canadian poet.

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Lane Anderson Award

The Lane Anderson Award is an annual award presented to Canadian non-fiction science in two categories; adult and young readers.

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Languages of Canada

A multitude of languages have always been spoken in Canada.

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Lannan Literary Awards

The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation.

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Larry's Party

Larry's Party is a 1997 novel by Carol Shields.

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Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Life of Pi

Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.

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Lionel Kearns

Lionel John Kearns (born February 16, 1937) is a writer, educator, philosopher and polyartist, known for his innovative literary forms, and his contributions to the field of digital poetics.

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List of Asian Canadian writers

This is a list of Asian Canadian writers.

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List of best-selling books

This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language.

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List of Black Canadian writers

This is a list of Black Canadian writers.

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List of Canadian short story writers

This is a list of Canadian short story writers.

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List of Canadian writers

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

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Lost in the Barrens

Lost in the Barrens is a 1956 children's novel by Farley Mowat.

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Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Louis-Honoré Fréchette, (November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908), was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer.

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Lower Canada Rebellion

The Lower Canada Rebellion (rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' Rebellion (Rébellion des patriotes) in French, is the name given to the armed conflict in 1837–38 between rebels and the colonial government of Lower Canada (now southern Quebec).

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.

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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.

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Matt Cohen Award

The Matt Cohen Award is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer, in honour of a distinguished lifetime contribution to Canadian literature.

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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.

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Mazo de la Roche

Mazo de la Roche (born Maisie Louise Roche; January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961) was a Canadian writer who was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.

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Milton Acorn

Milton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.

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Mohawk people

The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

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Molson Prize

The Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize for the Arts is awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.

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More Joy in Heaven

More Joy in Heaven is a novel written by Canadian author Morley Callaghan and published in 1937.

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Morley Callaghan

Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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National Business Book Award

The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors.

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Never Cry Wolf

Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience observing wolves in subarctic Canada by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart.

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Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist.

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No Great Mischief

No Great Mischief is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Norma Fleck Award

The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth audience.

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Norman Levine

Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a Canadian short story writer, novelist and poet who spent most of his adult life in England.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Olive Senior

Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.

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Patrick Lane (poet)

Patrick Lane (March 26, 1939 – March 7, 2019) was a Canadian poet.

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Philippe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé

Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841), was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel.

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Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Quebec Writers' Federation Awards

The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec.

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Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) refers to a significant period of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation in French Canada, particularly in Quebec, following the election of 1960.

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Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada.

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Raymond Savard

Pierre Raymond Savard (29 June 1927 – 20 July 2021) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

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RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer who has not yet published his or her first book.

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Robertson Davies

William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.

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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).

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer.

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Room (magazine)

Room (formerly Room of One's Own) is a Canadian quarterly literary journal that features the work of emerging and established women and genderqueer writers and artists.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues.

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Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada.

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Sillery, Quebec City

Sillery, a former independent city founded in 1637, is one of 35 administrative sectors (quartiers), which are unincorporated places, located in the post-expansion jurisdiction of the City of Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

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Solomon Gursky Was Here

Solomon Gursky Was Here is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler first published by Viking Canada in 1989.

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Stephen Leacock

Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist.

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Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary award presented for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer, published or self-published in the previous year.

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Such a Long Journey (novel)

Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry.

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Such Is My Beloved

Such Is My Beloved is a novel by Canadian writer Morley Callaghan.

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912.

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Susanna Moodie

Susanna Moodie (Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.

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Syilx

The Syilx people, also known as the Okanagan, Suknaqinx, or Okinagan people, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the Canada–US boundary in Washington state and unceded British Columbia in the Okanagan Country region.

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The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

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The Book of Negroes (novel)

The Book of Negroes is a 2007 novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill.

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The Canadas

The Canadas is the collective name for the provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, two historical British colonies in present-day Canada.

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The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The History of Emily Montague

The History of Emily Montague, written by Frances Brooke and first published in 1769, is often considered the first Canadian novel.

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The Hockey Sweater

The Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey in the original French) is a short story by Canadian author Roch Carrier and translated to English by Sheila Fischman.

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The Influence of a Book

The Influence of a Book (L'influence d'un livre) is a novel by the Canadian writer Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé, first published in 1837.

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The Polished Hoe

The Polished Hoe is a novel by Barbadian writer Austin Clarke, published by Thomas Allen Publishers in 2002.

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The Porcupine's Quill

The Porcupine's Quill is an independent publishing company in Erin, Ontario, Canada.

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The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries is a 1993 novel by Carol Shields.

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The Testaments

The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood.

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The Watch That Ends the Night

The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel by Canadian author and academic Hugh MacLennan.

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Theatre of Canada

Canada's contemporary theatre reflects a rich diversity of regional and cultural identities.

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (17 December 1796 – 27 August 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author.

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Three-Day Novel Contest

The Three-Day Novel Contest is an annual Canadian literary contest conducted in September of each year.

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TISH

TISH was a Canadian poetry newsletter founded by student-poets at the University of British Columbia in 1961.

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Two Solitudes (novel)

Two Solitudes is a 1945 novel by Hugh MacLennan.

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Université de Montréal

The (UdeM;; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Université Laval

italic (English: Laval University) is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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Upper Canada

The Province of Upper Canada (province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

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Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

The Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, colloquially called the Vicky, is given annually at the Writers' Trust Awards to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".

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W. O. Mitchell

William Ormond Mitchell, (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster.

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W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize

The W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer who produced an outstanding body of work, acted during his/her career as a "caring mentor" for writers, and published a work of fiction or had a new stage play produced during the three-year period specified for each competition.

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Who Has Seen the Wind (novel)

Who Has Seen the Wind is a novel written by Canadian author W. O. Mitchell, who took the title from a famous poem by Christina Rossetti.

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William Arthur Deacon

William Arthur Deacon (6 April 1890 — 5 August 1977) was a Canadian literary critic and editor.

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William Henry Drummond

William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.

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William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June c. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_literature

Also known as CanLit, Canadian lit, English Canadian literature, French Canadian literature, Literature of Canada.

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