Margaret Laurence
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Jean Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.
Margaret Laurence
Marker for Margaret Laurence at Neepawa, Manitoba
Canadian literature
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Canadian literature is the literature of a group of multicultural communities, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, and Indigenous languages. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both geographically and historically, representing Canada's diversity in culture and region.
Gabrielle Roy was a notable French Canadian author.
Charles G. D. Roberts was a poet that belonged to an informal group known as the Confederation Poets.
Short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
The former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke (2015)