Happy Canada Day!

check out these Canadian artists

Happy Canada Day, everyone! To mark the occasion, I share some great Canadian art for you to become familiar with!

Novelists

Margaret Laurence (The Fire-Dwellers, A Jest of God, The Diviners)

Thomas King (Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water)

Joy Kogawa (Obasan, Itsuka)

Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

Margaret Atwood (The MaddAddam Trilogy, The Handmaid’s Tale)

Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

Timothy Findlay (Not Wanted on the Voyage)

Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)

Playwrights

Judith Thompson (White Biting Dog, I Am Yours, Habitat, Capture Me, Lion in the Streets, Sled)

Robert Chafe (Afterimage, Oil & Water, Fear of Flight)

Michel Trembley (Forever Yours, Marie Lou; For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again)

Ann-Marie MacDonald [Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)]

John Mighton (Half Life)

Colleen Murphy (The December Man)

Morris Panych (Girl In the Goldfish Bowl)

Poets

Earle Birney (David and Other Poems)

Margaret Avison (The Dumbfounding, Not Yet But Still)

Jean Little (Hey World, Here I Am!)

Short Story Writers

Rudy Wiebe (Where Is the Voice Coming From?; Another Place, Not Here)

Alistair MacLeod (The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories)

Alice Munro (Dance of the Happy Shades; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)

Filmmakers

Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies, Cosmos, August 32nd on Earth)

Guy Maddin (Brand Upon the Brain!, My Winnipeg)

Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell, Women Talking, Away from Her)

Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)

Don McKellar (Last Night)