Leonard Cohen mawaƙin Kanada ne. An haife shi a shekara ta 1934 a Westmount, kusa da Montreal (a cikin Kebek, Kanada); a mutu a shekara ta 2016 a Los Angeles, Tarayyar Amurka. Ya rubuta waƙoƙin da yawa, ciki har da : Suzanne (da Hausanci: Suzana), 1967 So long, Marianne (Sai anjima, Maryan), 1967 Bird on the Wire (Tsuntsu akan waya), 1968 Dance Me to the End of Love (Rawa mani har zu ƙarshen soyayya), 1984 Hallelujah (Aleluya), 1984 First We Take Manhattan (Na farko mun kama Manhattan), 1987 Everybody Knows (Kowa san), 1988 Waƙoƙinshi, suna nufa al'amura dabban-dabban, ciki har da soyayya, addini, siyasa, jima'i kuma da warewa. Wannan Muƙalar guntuwa ce: tana buƙatar a inganta ta, kuna iya gyara ta.