12 Canadian Authors You Should Read Right Now

Born: Steinbach, Manitoba

Accolades: Governor General's Award for Fiction (A Complicated Kindness), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (The Flying Troutmans, All My Puny Sorrows), Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award (body of work)

Most Recent Title: All My Puny Sorrows

Born: Willowdale, North York, Ontario

Accolades: Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award (Three Day Road), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (Three Day Road), Scotiabank Giller Prize (Through Black Spruce), 2014 Edition of Canada Reads (The Orenda)

Most Recent Title: The Orenda

Born: Calgary, Alberta

Accolades: Scotiabank Giller Prize (Half-Blood Blues), Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (Half-Blood Blues),

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Half-Blood Blues), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Half-Blood Blues)

Most Recent Title: Dreaming of Elsewhere

Born: Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia

Accolades: Scotiabank Giller Prize (Hellgoing),

Most Recent Title: Hellgoing

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Accolades: Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (Best Laid Plans), 2011 winner of CBC Canada Reads (Best Laid Plans), Libris Award for Author of the Year (2013)

Most Recent Title: No Relation

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Accolades: Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service (The Line Painter)

Most Recent Title: The Bear

Born: Kitimaat, British Columbia

Accolades: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (Monkey Beach),

Most Recent Title: Blood Sports

Born: Sacramento, California (Dual Canadian Citizenship)

Accolades: RBC Taylor Prize (The Inconvenient Indian), Governor General's Award (The Back of the Turtle),

Member of the Order of Canada (2004)

Most Recent Title: The Back of the Turtle

Born: Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago

Accolades: Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award (Land to Light On), Pat Lowther Award for (thirsty)

City of Toronto Book Award (What We All Long For), Harbourfront Festival Prize in recognition of her important contribution to literature (2006), Fellow of the Academies for Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (2006), Poet Laureate of Toronto (2009)

Griffin Poetry Prize (Ossuaries)

Most Recent Title: Ossuaries

Born: Saigon, Vietnam

Accolades: Governor General's Award for French language fiction (Ru), 2015 edition of Canada Reads (Ru)

Most Recent Title: Ru

Born: Riga, Latvia

Accolades: Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction (Natasha and Other Stories), Winner of the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction (Natasha and Other Stories), Commonwealth First Book Prize for Caribbean/Canada (Natasha and Other Stories), Danuta Gleed Literary Award best first collection of short fiction in the English language (Natasha and Other Stories), Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), City of Toronto Book Award (Natasha and Other Stories), JQ Wingate Prize 2005 Fiction (Natasha and Other Stories), National Jewish Book Award (The Betrayers)

Most Recent Title: The Betrayers

Born: Stirling, Scotland

Accolades: Scotiabank Giller Prize (Us Conductors)

Most Recent Title: Us Conductors