Editing Culture of Canada (section)

===Literature===
{{Main|Canadian literature}}
[[File:Atwood123.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Margaret Atwood]] is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist.]]
[[Canadian literature]] is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively.<ref name="Keith2006">{{cite book|author=W. J. Keith|title=Canadian literature in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGawhTGpGK0C&pg=PA19|year= 2006|publisher=The Porcupine's Quill|isbn=978-0-88984-283-0|page=19}}</ref> Canada's early literature, whether written in English or French, often reflects the Canadian perspective on nature, frontier life, and Canada's position in the world, for example the poetry of [[Bliss Carman]] or the memoirs of [[Susanna Moodie]] and [[Catherine Parr Traill]]. These themes, and Canada's literary history, inform the writing of successive generations of Canadian authors, from [[Leonard Cohen]] to [[Margaret Atwood]].

By the mid-20th century, Canadian writers were exploring national themes for Canadian readers. Authors were trying to find a distinctly Canadian voice, rather than merely emulating British or American writers. Canadian identity is closely tied to its literature. The question of national identity recurs as a theme in much of Canada's literature, from [[Hugh MacLennan]]'s ''[[Two Solitudes (novel)|Two Solitudes]]'' (1945) to [[Alistair MacLeod]]'s ''[[No Great Mischief]]'' (1999). Canadian literature is often categorized by [[List of regions of Canada|region or province]]; by the socio-cultural origins of the author (for example, [[Acadians]], indigenous peoples, LGBT, and [[Irish Canadian]]s); and by literary period, such as "Canadian postmoderns" or "Canadian Poets Between the Wars".

Canadian authors have accumulated numerous international awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robertfulford.com/CanadianNovelists.html |title=Robert Fulford's column about the international success of Canadian literature |publisher=Robertfulford.com |date=June 6, 2001 |access-date=February 25, 2011 |archive-date=March 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301052028/http://www.robertfulford.com/CanadianNovelists.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1992, [[Michael Ondaatje]] became the first Canadian to win the [[Booker Prize]] for ''[[The English Patient]]''.<ref name="BrackettGaydosik2006">{{cite book|first1=Mary Virginia|last1=Brackett|first2=Victoria|last2=Gaydosik|title=The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel: Beginnings through the 19th century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkiNBQXP65EC&pg=RA1-PA323|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-5133-5|page=323}}</ref> [[Margaret Atwood]] won the Booker in 2000 for ''[[The Blind Assassin]]''<ref name="HengenThomson2007">{{cite book|first1=Shannon Eileen|last1=Hengen|first2=Ashley|last2=Thomson|title=Margaret Atwood: a reference guide, 1988–2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kf1SSS2jIpMC&pg=PA272|year=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5904-3|page=272}}</ref> and [[Yann Martel]] won it in 2002 for the ''[[Life of Pi]]''.<ref name="Martel2010">{{cite book|first=Yann|last=Martel|title=Beatrice and Virgil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzSzJP3qLwsC&pg=PA212|year= 2010|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-0-8129-8197-1|page=212}}</ref> [[Carol Shields]]'s ''[[The Stone Diaries]]''  won the [[Governor General's Awards]] in Canada in 1993, the 1995 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]], and the 1994 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]].<ref name="Werlock2001">{{cite book|author=Abby H. P. Werlock|title=Carol Shields's The stone diaries: a reader's guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xuhmom0ZJoC&pg=PA69|year=2001|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8264-5249-8|page=69}}</ref> In 2013, [[Alice Munro]] was the first Canadian to be awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] for [[List of short stories by Alice Munro|her work]] as "master of the modern short story".<ref name="nobelprize.org">{{cite press release |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/press.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012073434/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/press.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-12 |url-status=live |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 |year=2013 |access-date= October 10, 2013}}</ref> Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.<ref name="GaunceMayr2012">{{cite book|first1=Julia|last1=Gaunce|first2=Suzette|last2=Mayr|first3=Don |last3=LePan |first4=Marjorie |last4=Mather |first5=Bryanne|last5=Miller|title=The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction, second edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aE6-gRWo16sC&pg=PA236|date=July 25, 2012|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55481-076-5|page=236}}</ref>