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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• Steven Cain
• Barry Callaghan (born 1937) novelist and journalist
• Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private Place
• Elspeth Cameron, (born 1943) biographer
• Silver Donald Cameron (born 1937)
• James Cameron (born 1910) poet and critic
• Phil Campagna
• Natalee Caple
• Bliss Carman (1861-1929) poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
• David Carpenter
• Roch Carrier (born 1937) French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote La Guerre, Yes Sir!, as well as the children's story The Hockey Sweater (Le chandail de hockey)
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• Gillian Chan
• Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), first historian of New France.
• Wayson Choy (born 1939)
• Lesley Choyce (born 1951)
• Margaret Christakos
• Greg Clark (1892-1977), humorist
• Austin Clarke (born 1934)
• George Elliott Clarke (born 1960) poet, U of T professor
• Lynn Coady (born 1970)
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet and singer
• Matt Cohen (born 1942)
• Samuel Nathan Cohen (1923-1971) drama critic
• Helena Coleman
• John Robert Columbo (born 1936), poet and compiler of reference books
• Karen Connelly (born 1969)
• Ralph Conner (also known as Charles William Gordon), The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days.
• George Ramsay Cook (born 1931), historian
• Hugh Cook (born 1942)
• Michael Cook
• Dennis Cooley (born 1944)
• Douglas Anthony Cooper, novelist
• John Paul Copeland
• Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965), historical fiction
• Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
• Isabella Valancy Crawford
• Donald Creighton (1902-1979), historian
• Octave Crémazie (1827-1879), French-Canadian poet
• Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
• Lorna Crozier (born 1948)
• Michael Crummey
• Peter Cummings
• Alan Cumyn (born 1960)
• Richard Cumyn
• Herb Curtis
• Leona Czwartkowski (born 1949), author, poet, and eMedia artist