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Born June 21, 1950 (age 76) • Toronto • Canada
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2026) • PEN/Nabokov Award (2021)
Notable Works “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse” • “Economy of the Unlost” • “Electra” • “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay” • “Nox” • “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos” • “The Glass Essay”

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Anne Carson
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Anne Carson sits onstage holding a microphone, wearing glasses, a dark pinstripe suit, and sneakers, speaking at The Shed arts center event in New York City.
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Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
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Susan Musgrave
American-born author
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Canadian author
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Rex Warner
British writer
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Lisa Robertson
Canadian poet and essayist
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Anne Michaels
Canadian poet and novelist
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Canadian writer
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Thomas King
American-born Canadian writer and photographer
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Sue Goyette
Canadian poet and novelist
Davies, Robertson
Robertson Davies
Canadian author
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Al Purdy
Canadian author
Mordecai Richler.
Mordecai Richler
Canadian novelist
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Margaret Avison
Canadian poet
Isabella Valancy Crawford, lithograph
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Canadian poet
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Earle Birney
Canadian writer and educator
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
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John Glassco
Canadian author
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Robert Charbonneau
Canadian writer
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Margaret Laurence
Canadian writer

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