List of Canadian writers

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

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• Ken Babstock
• D.F. Bailey
• R. Scott Bakker
• Himani Bannerji
• Volodimir Barabash (1900-1989), poet
• Bruce Barber
• Steve Bareham
• Gary Barwin (born 1964) novelist and children's author
• Ronald Bates
• Bill Bauer
• Nancy Bauer
• Henry Beissel, (born 1929)
• William Bell
• Nigel Bennett
• Pierre Berton (born 1920) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality
• Dennison Berwick (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
• Gerard Bessette (born 1920), Québécois author
• Navtej Bharati Indo-Canadian poet
• Carol Biberstein, children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
• Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels
• Earle Birney (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Bill Bissett (born 1939) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Lise Bissonnette
• Neil Bissoondath (born 1955)
• Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
• Clark Blaise (born 1940)
• Christian Bök (born 1966), poet, author of Eunoia
• Stephanie Bolster
• Roo Borson, (born 1952)
• Hédi Bouraoui
• Nicholas Boving
• George Bowering (born 1935)
• Marilyn Bowering (born 1949), poet and novelist
• David Boyd
• George Elroy Boyd
• Catherine Bradford
• Karleen Bradford
• Max Braithwaite (1911-1995) prairie depression era fiction
• Dionne Brand (1953- ) poet born in Trinidad and Tobago
• Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Jacques Brault (1933- )
• Brian Brett
• Robert Bringhurst (1946- ) poet, author, and typographer
• David Bromige (1944- ) poet
• Barry Broadfoot (1926-2003) interviewer, author
• Bertram Brooker theosophist painter
• Nicole Brossard (1943- ) formalist poet
• Robert Budde (1966- ) poet and novelist
• Margaret Buffie
• Bonnie Burnard (1945- ) novelist, The Good House
• Mick Burrs
• Sharon Butala (1940- )
• Anthony M. Buzzelli