List of Canadian writers

Columns: Name | Born | Genre | Notable works
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 | memoirs | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss | Caroline Vu | 1959 | fiction | Palawan Story , That Summer in Provincetown , Un été à Provincetown

Example questions:
What is the genre of the Canadian writer whose writings often focus on issues of migration , diaspora , citizenship , gender and ethnicity ? | What is the genre of the Canadian writer with initial V who died on 23 December 1998 ? | What is the genre of the Canadian writer with initial V who died in 1922 ? | What is the genre of the Canadian writer with initial V who was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , of Icelandic descent ?

Answers:
novelist , poet | political essayist | memoirs | novelist , poet , short stories