The CBC has compiled a list they call 100 writers in Canada the World Should Read with links to a page for each writer.
I've had a look at the list and most of the names are unfamiliar. I'm not sure what the selection criteria were but I found some notable omissions. The SF genre is represented by Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Guy Gavriel Kay, and a few others, but where's Robert Charles Wilson, Peter Watts, or Robert J. Sawyer? Or out of the genre, Linwood Barclary, Linden McIntyre, or Giles Blunt?
Still, it's good to see our writers being recognized. Thirty years ago, you'd never have seen a list like this being compiled.
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