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Born July 22, 1961 (age 65) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works “Debbie: An Epic” • “Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias” • “XEclogue”
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
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
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Susan Musgrave
American-born author
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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
Pratt, E.J.
E.J. Pratt
Canadian poet
Davies, Robertson
Robertson Davies
Canadian author
Duncan Campbell Scott, 1943
Duncan Campbell Scott
Canadian author
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Jay Macpherson
Canadian poet
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Al Purdy
Canadian author
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Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Canadian poet
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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George Woodcock
Canadian writer
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Ralph Barker Gustafson
Canadian poet
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A.M. Klein
Canadian poet
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, c. 1862
Thomas D’Arcy McGee
Irish-Canadian writer

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