List of Canadian writers
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Name

Born

Died

Genre

Notable works

W. D. Valgardson

1939

novelist, poet, short stories

The Girl with the Botticelli Face, Bloodflowers: Ten Stories

Pierre Vallières

1938

1998

political essayist

Les Nègres blancs d'Amérique

Edo Van Belkom

1962

horror

Army of the Dead, Wyrm Wolf

Richard Van Camp

1971

novelist, short stories, children's literature

The Lesser Blessed

Guy Vanderhaeghe

1951

novelist, short stories

The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing

Aritha Van Herk

1954

novelist

Judith, No Fixed Address

A. E. van Vogt

1912

2000

science fiction

Children of Tomorrow, Empire of the Atom

Jean Vanier

1928

theologian

Becoming Human

M. G. Vassanji

1950

novelist

The Book of Secrets, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

R. M. Vaughan

novelist, poet

A Quilted Heart, Spells

Guillermo Verdecchia

1962

playwright

Insomnia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures

Robert Verdun

non-fiction, investigative reporting

The Fox in Charge of the Biggest Henhouse in Canada

Paul Vermeersch

1973

poet

Burn

Katherena Vermette

poet, children's literature

North End Love Songs

Gilles Vigneault

1928

poet, storyteller, singer-songwriter

Mon pays, La manikoutai, Il en est passé

Margaret Visser

philosopher

The Geometry of Love, Beyond Fate

Élisabeth Vonarburg

1947

science fiction

Chroniques du pays des mères

Garth Von Buchholz

1968

poetry, dramatist, dark fiction, non-fiction

Mad Shadows, Land of Milk and Honey, The Songs of Songs, 13 Dark Poems

John Voss

1858

1922

memoirs

The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss

Caroline Vu

1959

fiction

Palawan Story, That Summer in Provincetown, Un été à Provincetown

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William Dempsey Valgardson ( born 7 May 1939 ) is an Icelandic Canadian fiction writer and poet . He was a long-time professor of writing at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a professor of English at Cottey College in Nevada , Missouri . [ citation needed ] [ when ? ] Valgardson was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , of Icelandic descent , and raised in Gimli , Manitoba . He completed his BA at United College , BEd at the University of Manitoba , and his MFA at the University of Iowa . His writing often focuses on cultural differences and involve irony and symbolism . His short stories involve normal people in normal situations , who , under certain circumstances , lead unusual and surprising lives . Valgardson has won numerous awards and accolades including the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Girl With the Botticelli Face ( 1992 ) and the Books in Canada First Novel Award for Gentle Sinners ( 1980 ) . His short story Bloodflowers was included in Best American Short Stories 1971 .
Bloodflowers : Ten Stories no-repeat ; background-position : right .1em center } . Many short stories involve the use of irony and symbolism and take place in isolated communities .
Pierre Vallières ( ( 1938-02-22 ) 22 February 1938 - ( 1998-12-23 ) 23 December 1998 ) was a Québécois journalist and writer , known as an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) and author of White Niggers of America .
Pierre Vallières ( ( 1938-02-22 ) 22 February 1938 - ( 1998-12-23 ) 23 December 1998 ) was a Québécois journalist and writer , known as an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) and author of White Niggers of America .
Edo van Belkom ( born 1962 ) is a Canadian author of horror fiction .
Richard Van Camp ( born 8 September 1971 ) is a Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ writer of the Dene nation from Fort Smith , Northwest Territories . He is best known for his 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed , which was adapted into a film by director Anita Doron in 2012 .
The Lesser Blessed is a Canadian drama film , released in 2012 . The film was written and directed by Anita Doron and is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Van Camp , the film stars Joel Evans as Larry Sole , a young Tłı̨chǫ teenager living in the Northwest Territories . The film 's cast also includes Chloe Rose , Kiowa Gordon , Benjamin Bratt , Dylan Cook and Tamara Podemski . Despite being set in the Northwest Territories , the film was shot in Sudbury , Ontario . The film premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in 2012 to critical acclaim . Doron garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards . The film later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 .
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe , OC , SOM ( born April 5 , 1951 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer , best known for his Western novels trilogy , The Englishman 's Boy , The Last Crossing , and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West . Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General 's Awards for his fiction , one for his short story collection Man Descending in 1982 , the second for his novel The Englishman 's Boy in 1996 , and the third for his short story collection Daddy Lenin and Other Stories in 2015 .
The Englishman 's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe , published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart , which won the Governor General 's Award for English-language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize . It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre ( 1873 ) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor .
The Last Crossing is a novel by Canadian writer Guy Vanderhaeghe . It was first published in 2002 by McClelland and Stewart . A rethinking of the genre of the western , The Last Crossing is a tale of interwoven lives and stories taking place in the last half of the 19th century , travelling from England to the United States and the Canadian west .
Aritha van Herk , CM AOE FRSC , is a Canadian writer , critic , editor , public intellectual , and university professor . Her work often includes feminist themes , and depicts and analyzes the culture of western Canada .
Alfred Elton van Vogt ( /væn voʊt/ ; April 26 , 1912 - January 26 , 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author . His fragmented , bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers , notably Philip K. Dick . He is one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century , the genre 's so-called Golden Age , and one of the most complex .
Children of Tomorrow is a 1970 science fiction novel by Canadian-American author A. E. van Vogt .
Empire of the Atom is a science fiction novel by Canadian American writer A. E. van Vogt . It was first published in 1957 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 2,000 copies . The novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt 's Gods stories which originally appeared in the magazine Astounding . The remaining Gods stories are collected in The Wizard of Linn . Author and critic James Blish observed that the plot of the Gods stories resembled that of Robert Graves ' Claudius novels . Author and critic Damon Knight said that the plot was lifted almost bodily from the plot of I , Claudius . A genealogy chart of the ruling family of the Empire of Linn is included .
Jean Vanier CC GOQ ( September 10 , 1928 - May 7 , 2019 ) was a Canadian Catholic philosopher , theologian , and humanitarian . In 1964 , he founded L'Arche , an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries , for people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them . Subsequently , in 1971 , he co-founded Faith and Light with Marie-Hélène Mathieu , which also works for people with developmental disabilities , their families , and friends in over 80 countries . He continued to live as a member of the original L'Arche community in Trosly-Breuil , France , until his death . Over the years he wrote 30 books on religion , disability , normality , success , and tolerance . Among the honours he received were the Companion of the Order of Canada ( 1986 ) , Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec ( 1992 ) , French Legion of Honour ( 2003 ) , Community of Christ International Peace Award ( 2003 ) , the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award ( 2013 ) , and the Templeton Prize ( 2015 ) .
Moyez G. Vassanji , CM ( born 30 May 1950 ) is a Canadian novelist and editor , who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji . Vassanji 's work is known throughout North America , and in Africa , and South Asia , and has been translated into several languages . As of 2019 , he has published nine novels , as well as a two collection of short fiction and two nonfiction books . Vassanji 's writings , which have received considerable critical acclaim , often focus on issues of migration , diaspora , citizenship , gender and ethnicity .
The Book of Secrets is a novel by M. G. Vassanji , published in 1994 . It was the winner of the very first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction . Vassanji also became the award 's first-ever repeat winner in 2003 for his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall .
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a novel by M. G. Vassanji , published in 2003 by Doubleday Canada . The novel won the Scotiabank Giller Prize that year and narrates a story of Vikram Lall in the colonial and post-colonial Kenya . The title for the novel also inspired the title for Elizabeth Nunez 's novel Anna In-Between , published in 2009 .
Richard Murray Vaughan ( born 1965 ) is a Canadian poet , novelist and playwright . Born in Saint John , New Brunswick , Vaughan is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick . Vaughan currently lives in Toronto . He was playwright-in-residence at Buddies in Bad Times in 1994-95 , and has published numerous works , including articles in Utne Reader . He is openly gay . His most recent work , Bright Eyed , is a memoir of his struggles with insomnia .
Guillermo Verdecchia ( born December 7 , 1962 ) is a Canadian theatre artist . Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two . He was raised in Kitchener , Ontario . Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto , and a master 's degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph in Guelph , Ontario . Verdecchia received the 1993 Governor-General 's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas . He is a four-time winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award , and a recipient of various other awards for acting as well as sundry film festival awards for Crucero/Crossroads , the short film , made with Ramiro Puerta , based on Fronteras Americanas . His work engages questions of representation , political power , and cultural theory . Verdecchia is a sessional instructor at Algoma University and has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland , the University of Guelph , and at Ca ' Foscari in Venice . In 2007 he was the 2007 Hayes-Jenkinson Memorial lecturer at Algoma University . He is also an instructor in the University of Toronto , and teaches various drama related courses . He has also published a collection of short stories , Citizen Suarez in 1998 .
J Robert Verdun is an activist shareholder-rights Canadian advocate , an author and a former editor of a weekly paper . He was also a defendant in an important defamation lawsuit .
Paul Joseph Vermeersch ( born November 17 , 1973 ) is a Canadian poet . Born in Mississauga , Ontario , he grew up in Southwestern Ontario and lives in Toronto . His first collection , Burn ( 2000 ) , was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award . His subsequent collections , The Fat Kid ( 2002 ) , Between the Walls ( 2005 ) , The Reinvention of the Human Hand ( 2010 , a finalist for the Trillium Book Award ) , and Do n't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something have all garnered critical praise . From 1998 to 2003 , Vermeersch organized the reading series at the I.V . Lounge in downtown Toronto , hosting authors from across North America . During that time he edited the anthology The I.V . Lounge Reader ( 2001 ) for Insomniac Press . From 2002 until 2011 he was the poetry editor for the press . He is now senior editor of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd. Vermeersch teaches at Sheridan College in Oakville .
Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer , who won the Governor General 's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs . Vermette is of Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg , Manitoba . She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia . In addition to writing , Vermette advocates for the equality of Aboriginal peoples in Canada , vocalizing her dissatisfaction with the apathy shown towards Indigenous issues by the Canadian government and the Canadian media .
Gilles Vigneault GOQ ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ʒil viɲo ] ; born 27 October 1928 ) is a Canadian French-speaking poet , publisher , singer-songwriter , and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist . Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec 's unofficial anthems : Mon pays and Gens du pays , and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays , c'est l'hiver ( My country is not a country , it is winter , from Mon Pays ) became a proverb in Quebec . Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec , Knight of the Legion of Honour , and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .
Margaret Visser ( born May 11 , 1940 ) is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Toronto , Paris , and South West France . Her subject matter is the history , anthropology , and mythology of everyday life . Born in South Africa , she attended school in Zambia , Zimbabwe , France ( the Sorbonne ) and the University of Toronto Canada where she earned a PhD in Classics . Visser taught Greek and Latin at York University north of Toronto for 18 years . For several years Visser regularly appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's popular radio program Morningside in conversations with Peter Gzowski . Her writing has won many awards , including the Glenfiddich Award for Food Book of the Year in Britain in 1989 , the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' Literary Food Writing Award , and the Jane Grigson Award . Visser delivered the 2002 CBC Massey Lectures . Her topic was Beyond Fate . Visser is married to Colin Visser , professor emeritus of the English Department of the University of Toronto . In 2017 Visser 's 1992 book , The Rituals of Dinner was re-issued , on her birthday , and The Guardian 's review of it noted her wry humour . The review noted Twenty-five years after its first publication , Vissers book remains a delightful guide to how we eat , and why it matters . In 2018 the Washington Post cited Visser , on the etiquette of cannibalism , from her 1992 book on dining manners , Much depends on dinner , when reporting on the bizarre case of a California high school girl who claimed she served her classmates cookies that contained her grandfather 's ashes .
Élisabeth Vonarburg ( born 5 August 1947 ) is a science fiction writer . She was born in Paris ( France ) and has lived in Chicoutimi ( now Saguenay ) , Quebec , Canada since 1973 . From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French-Canadian science fiction magazine Solaris . Her first novel , Le Silence de la Cité ( The Silence in the City ) , appeared in 1981 . She has received several awards , including Le Grand Prix de la SF française in 1982 and a Philip K. Dick Award special citation in 1992 for In the Mothers ' Land the English version of Chroniques du pays des mères . She is the author of Cycle de Tyranaël .
Garth von Buchholz is a Canadian digital strategist , educator and author of fiction , non-fiction , poetry and drama . He was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , and raised in Winnipeg , Montreal , Quebec and Vancouver , British Columbia . He currently lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia . He received his undergraduate arts degree at the University of Winnipeg in 1994 and started his graduate studies in English Literature at the University of Manitoba in 1995 . He began his career in print publishing as a writer and editor in 1988 , and then later launched a new career in web publishing and content strategy in the mid-1990s . He earned his Certified Usability Analyst credentials from Human Factors International and has worked as a website communications manager for Investors Group ( IGM Financial ) and as the first corporate web manager for the City of Winnipeg . In 2010 he was listed as one of the Top 25 Content Strategists ( # 16 ) at the LavaCon technology conference in San Diego , California . He teaches social media strategy at Royal Roads University in Victoria , British Columbia , Canada . As a creative writer , his works include a book of poetry called Mad Shadows that was published in 2010 . His plays include Land of Milk and Honey , which was professionally workshopped in 1994 by the Manitoba Association of Playwrights at Prairie Theatre Exchange . His poetry and short stories have been published in many print and online journals . In addition to his literary writing , von Buchholz has written numerous arts and entertainment reviews as a professional journalist and critic for several newspapers and magazines , such as Maclean 's magazine , Prairie Fire , The Globe and Mail and Dance Magazine .
John ( sometimes Jack ) Claus Voss ( born Johannes Claus Voss ; 1858-1922 ) was a German-Canadian sailor best known for sailing around the world in a modified dug-out canoe he named Tilikum ( Friend in Chinook jargon ) . Initially a carpenter , Voss apprenticed on a ship voyaging around Cape Horn and thereafter lived primarily as a sailor . In 1901 Voss began his most noteworthy voyage with his friend Norman Luxton and ending alone in 1904 . He chronicled this and other notable voyages in The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss .
Caroline Vu is a Canadian novelist of Vietnamese heritage .