Officer of the Order of Canada
Leonard Cohen, C.C., B.A., LL.D.
Appointment: April 19, 1991
Investiture: October 30, 1991
Poet, singer/songwriter and novelist, Leonard Cohen is one of the most popular and influential writers of his generation whose work has been critically acclaimed throughout the world and has made Canadian literature familiar to readers abroad. Images of beauty, despair, outrage and tenderness are found in his lyrical poetry and prose, whose themes of love, loss and loneliness touch a universal chord in us all.