Most Famous Canadian Writers
Canada has produced 216 notable writers throughout history, led by Margaret Atwood. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
MA
Margaret Atwood Canadian Writer Born 1939
#
880
AM
Alice Munro Canadian Writer Born 1931
#
1,777
LM
Lucy Maud Montgomery Canadian Writer 1874 – 1942
#
2,342
AE
A. E. van Vogt Canadian Writer 1912 – 2000
#
9,386
DC
Douglas Coupland Canadian Writer Born 1961
#
10,756
NF
Northrop Frye Canadian Writer 1912 – 1991
#
13,187
RD
Robertson Davies Canadian Writer 1913 – 1995
#
17,800
GG
Guy Gavriel Kay Canadian Writer Born 1954
#
20,974
RS
Robin Sharma Canadian Writer Born 1965
#
25,688
CF
Chrystia Freeland Canadian Journalist Born 1968
#
30,703
BL
Bruce LaBruce Canadian Writer Born 1964
#
31,461
RS
R. Scott Bakker Canadian Writer Born 1967
#
33,547
NA
Nelly Arcan Canadian Writer 1973 – 2009
#
34,411
LP
Luc Plamondon Canadian Writer Born 1942
#
35,370
RD
Réjean Ducharme Canadian Playwright 1941 – 2017
#
35,567
PT
Phan Thi Kim Phuc Canadian Writer Born 1963
#
36,035
WP
William P. Young Canadian Writer Born 1955
#
40,188
ML
Margaret Laurence Canadian Novelist 1926 – 1987
#
46,964
AM
Alistair MacLeod Canadian Writer 1936 – 2014
#
49,866
JL
Jeff Lemire Canadian Writer Born 1976
#
50,914