Past Distinguished Visiting Writers
Learn more about the internationally acclaimed authors we've brought to Calgary.
Distinguished Visiting Writers are nominated by the CDWP steering committee every year. The CDWP brings these writers of international stature to Calgary for free, public events to fulfil our mandate of enriching Calgary's literary community.
2022 - 2023
Jamaica Kincaid
2021 - 2022
Bernardine Evaristo
2020-2021
Gene Luen Yang
2019 - 2020
Lee Maracle
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Gwen Benaway
2018 - 2019
Amitav Ghosh
2017 - 2018
Marlon James
2016 - 2017
Michael Chabon
2015 - 2016
Zadie Smith
2014 - 2015
Shyam Selvadurai
Evelyn Lau
2013 - 2014
Neil Gaiman
Alberto Manguel
2012 - 2013
Margaret Atwood
2011 - 2012
Billy Collins
2010 - 2011
Art Spiegelman
2009 - 2010
Margaret MacMillan
2008 - 2009
Alberto Ríos
2007 - 2008
Derek Walcott
Daphne Marlatt
2006 - 2007
Frederick Busch Tribute
2005 - 2006
Rudy Wiebe
Oliver Sacks
2004 - 2005
Alistair MacLeod
2003 - 2004
Anita Rau Badami
Dionne Brand
Louis de Bernières
2002 - 2003
Robert Kroetsch
Wole Soyinka
2001 - 2002
Nicole Brossard
Timothy Findley
2000 - 2001
Gary Burns
Deepa Mehta
Erin Mouré
Paul Quarrington
Anne Wheeler
1999 - 2000
Emma Donoghue
Tony Kushner
1998 - 1999
Dionne Brand
Louise Halfe
Alberto Manguel
Adrienne Rich
1997 - 1998
Anita Rau Badami
Rose Scollard
1996 - 1997
Louis de Bernières
Ursula K. Le Guin
Steve McCaffery
D.M. Thomas
1995 - 1996
Robin Blaser
Robert Creeley
Keri Hulme
Sir Laurens van der Post
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
1994 - 1995
David Albahari
Marilyn Dumont
Thomas King
Tom Raworth
1993 - 1994
Michael Ondaatje
