List of Canadian writers
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Table:
Name

Born

Died

Genre

Notable works

Ameer Idreis

1999

novelist

The Ewald Series

Michael Ignatieff

1947

novelist, academic

Scar Tissue, Blood and Belonging

George K. Ilsley

1958

novelist, short stories

Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug

Neamat Imam

1971

novelist

The Black Coat

Susan Ioannou

1944

poet

Clarity Between Clouds

Anosh Irani

1974

novelist

The Song of Kahunsha

Ann Ireland

1953

novelist

Exile, A Certain Mr. Takahashi

Adel Iskandar

1977

media critic

Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism

Frances Itani

1942

novelist

Deafening

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Ameer Idreis ( born 1999 ) is a Canadian writer , who has published two books in his debut series The Ewald Series . He has received various awards and recognition as a young novelist in Canada from the Hamilton Spectator the Canada-Arab Business Council , the Council of the Arab League , Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board and the Women 's Press . He has also done work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in association with the Telling Tales Festival , where he hosted interviews with the authors Kenneth Oppel and Kevin Sylvester . Ameer also participated in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation event the Human Library . Ameer has also guest hosted on the podcast Alohomora !
Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM ( /ɪɡˈnætiɛf/ ; born May 12 , 1947 ) is a Canadian author , academic and former politician . He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011 . Known for his work as a historian , Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge , Oxford , Harvard , and Toronto . He is currently rector and President of Central European University . While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000 , Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer . His documentary series Blood and Belonging : Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993 , and won a Canadian Gemini Award . His book of the same name , based on the series , won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto 's Lionel Gelber Prize . His memoir , The Russian Album , won Canada 's Governor General 's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature 's Heinemann Prize in 1988 . His novel , Scar Tissue , was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994 . In 2000 , he delivered the Massey Lectures , entitled The Rights Revolution , which was released in print later that year . In the 2006 federal election , Ignatieff was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke - Lakeshore . That same year , he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party , ultimately losing to Stéphane Dion .
George K. Ilsley ( born 1958 ) is a Canadian writer . He has published a collection of short stories , Random Acts of Hatred , which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood , and a novel , ManBug . Originally from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia , he has since been based in Vancouver , British Columbia . Prior to launching his career as a writer , he studied law , but decided not to become a lawyer . His writing has also appeared in the anthologies Queeries , Contra/Diction and First Person Queer , and in the literary magazines The Church-Wellesley Review , Event , Prairie Fire and Plenitude . ManBug was a shortlisted finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2007 . Ilsley was awarded an Honour of Distinction citation by the Writers ' Trust of Canada 's Dayne Ogilvie Grant in 2010 , and his 2014 piece Bingo and Black Ice won subTerrain magazine 's Lush Triumphant Award for creative non-fiction in 2014 .
Neamat Imam ( Bengali : নেয়ামত ইমাম ; born 5 January 1971 ) is a Pakistani-Canadian author of literary fiction . His first novel , The Black Coat , a Quill & Quire Book of the Year 2016 , was published by Penguin Books India from its Hamish Hamilton imprint in 2013 . It is considered the gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history and a future classic . He has also authored 2 plays , 2 novellas , and a collection of poetry in Bengali language .
The Black Coat is a historical novel by Bangladeshi-Canadian author Neamat Imam . It is a meditation on power , greed and the human cost of politics . The Sunday Guardian commented that it is destined to be a future classic and will be used as the gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history . Published in 2013 by Penguin Books India in Hamish Hamilton imprint , it presents a dark and dystopian portrait of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman . Sheikh Mujib is commonly regarded as the Father of the Bengali Nation , the greatest hero Bangladesh has ever had , but in this novel Imam depicts him as a totalitarian ruler who distorted truth and suppressed political opposition to strengthen his tyranny .
Susan Ioannou ( born 1944 ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto , Ontario .
Anosh Irani ( born 1974 ) is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright . An Irani ( like Parsi , but of more recent Iranian extraction ) , he was born and raised in Mumbai , although he has indicated that he personally prefers the city 's traditional English name , Bombay . After working in advertising in India , he moved to Vancouver in 1998 to study and pursue writing . His first full-length play , The Matka King , premiered in October 2003 at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver . His play , Bombay Black , won four Dora Awards , including Outstanding New Play . Irani was also featured in Quill & Quire as one of a handful of young Canadian writers to watch . He published his debut novel , The Cripple and His Talismans , in 2004 . This dark fable won critical acclaim for its magic realist depiction of the seedy beggars ' underworld of India . Irani 's second novel , The Song of Kahunsha , was chosen as a CBC Book Club One pick , and was selected for the 2007 edition of Canada Reads , where it was championed by Donna Morrissey . Kahunsha is a story about the abandoned children of Bombay , struggling for survival and to hold on to hope amidst the violence of the 1993 racial riots . His third novel , Dahanu Road , was published in 2010 . His fourth , The Parcel , was published in 2016 and was a shortlisted finalist for that year 's Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize and Governor General 's Award for English-language fiction , His play My Granny the Goldfish premiered at the Arts Club Theatre Company 's new venue , The Revue Stage , in Vancouver on 16 April 2010 .
The Song of Kahunsha no-repeat ; background-position : right .1em center } . Set against the backdrop of the racial violence that engulfed the Indian city of Bombay in 1992 and 1993 , the novel depicts the life of Chamdi , a ten-year-old orphan forced to survive on the streets after running away from his orphanage in a quest to find his father . The book was selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Canada Reads , in which it was championed by author Donna Morrissey .
Ann Ireland ( 1953-2018 ) was a Canadian fiction author who published five novels between 1985 and 2018 . Her first novel , A Certain Mr. Takahashi ( 1985 ) , was the winner of the Seal $ 50,000 1st Novel Award . She also wrote 1996 's The Instructor , which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award , and 2002 's Exile , which was shortlisted for the 2002 Governor General 's Awards and the Rogers Writers Trust fiction prize .
Adel Iskandar ( aka Adel Iskandar Farag ) ( born 15 March 1977 ) is a British-born Middle East media scholar , postcolonial theorist , analyst , and academic . He is the author and co-author of several works on Arab media , most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera . Born to an Egyptian family of physicians in Edinburgh , Scotland , he grew up in Kuwait , escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991 Persian Gulf War . At the age of 16 , he moved to Canada where he earned his degree in Social Anthropology and Biology from Dalhousie University in Halifax , Nova Scotia . He later earned a masters in Communications from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond , Indiana and a PhD from the University of Kentucky . He proposes the concept of contextual objectivity as a critique of media 's coverage of war . He wrote a regular column for Egyptian independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum during and shortly after the revolution and taught in the Communication , Culture and Technology ( CCT ) program as well as the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies ( CCAS ) at Georgetown University . He is currently teaches Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada and is a co-editor of e-zine Jadaliyya .
Frances Susan Itani , née Hill ( born August 25 , 1942 ) is a Canadian fiction writer , poet and essayist . She is a Member of the Order of Canada . Itani was born in Belleville , Ontario , and grew up in Quebec . She studied nursing in Montreal and North Carolina , a profession which she taught and practised for eight years . However , after enrolling in a writing class taught by W. O. Mitchell , she decided to change careers . She married Tetsuo ( Ted ) Itani , a retired Canadian Forces officer and humanitarian , in 1967 . They reside in Ottawa , Ontario . Itani has published thirteen books , ranging from fiction and poetry to a children 's book . Her 2003 novel Deafening was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Award , and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize , Caribbean and Canada region , and has been published in 16 countries .