Canlit

[ kan-lit ]

noun

, Canadian Informal.

1. literature, usually in English, written by Canadians or written in or about Canada.

CanLit

/ ˌkænˈlɪt /

acronym for

1. Canadian Literature

Word History and Origins

Origin of Canlit¹

Can(adian) lit(erature)

Example Sentences

Ms. Mendelson’s version of the bar was so good that the novelist Margaret Atwood included it in her “Canlit Foodbook,” which compiled writing and recipes from Canadian authors.

From New York Times

An anonymously created email list called CanLit Janitors started circulating in October to alert women in the Canadian literary community to male writers and editors who were said to have behaved inappropriately.

From New York Times

Today, on the other hand, such a claim would sound not only ostentatious but redundant: CanLit, as we often call it, having flailed in the nineteen-seventies through an adolescent phase full of anxious self-definition, is now generally thought to include any work by a Canadian citizen.

From The New Yorker

Today, on the other hand, such a claim would sound not only ostentatious but redundant: CanLit, as we often call it, having flailed in the nineteen-seventies through an adolescent phase full of anxious self-definition, is now generally thought to include any work by a Canadian citizen.

From The New Yorker