governor general’s award-winning fiction writers

Alice Munro

Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro’s work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time

Malcolm Lowry

English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor