Rachna Gilmore
Canadian writer (1953–2021)
Rachna Gilmore | |
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| Born | (1953-10-11)October 11, 1953 India |
| Died | February 1, 2021(2021-02-01) (aged 67) Ottawa, Canada |
| Occupation | Children's novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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Rachna Gilmore (11 October 1953 – 1 February 2021) was a Canadian children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.[1]
Life and career
Born in India in October 1953, Gilmore emigrated from New Delhi to London as a teenager and studied biology at University of London. After emigrating to Canada in the mid-1970s, she studied education of the University of Prince Edward Island. In 1990 Gilmore and her family moved to Ottawa.[2] She wrote literature for children and young adults, mainly, but also fiction for adults.
Gilmore died in February 2021, at the age of 67.[3]
Works
- Picture books
- My Mother is Weird (1988)
- When I Was A Little Girl (1989)
- Jane's Loud Mouth (1990)
- Aunt Fred is a Witch (1991)
- Lights for Gita (1994)
- Roses for Gita (1996)
- Wild Rilla (1997)
- A Gift for Gita (1998)
- A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
- Grandpa's Clock (2006)
- Making Grizzle Grow (2007)
- Catching Time (2010)
- The Flute (2011)
- Children's novels
- A Friend Like Zilla (1995)
- Mina's Spring of Colors (2000)
- A Group of One (2001)
- The Sower of Tales (2005)
- The Trouble With Dilly (2009)
- That Boy Red (2011)
- Early readers
- Ellen's Terrible TV Trouble (1999)
- Fangs and Me (1999)
- Non-fiction
- Snapshots From The Fringes (2010)
- Adult fiction
- Of Customs and Excise (1991, under pseudonym Rachna Mara)
References
- ^ "Cumulative List Of Winners Of The Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
- ^ "Rachna Gilmore". Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
- ^ Rachna GILMORE obituary
External links
- Author profile
- Jenkins, David Profile
- Author interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca
Children's literature portal
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- Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army (1987)
- Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic (1988)
- Diana Wieler, Bad Boy (1989)
- Michael Bedard, Redwork (1990)
- Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks (1991)
- Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes (1992)
- Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (1993)
- Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994)
- Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (1995)
- Paul Yee, Ghost Train (1996)
- Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming (1997)
- Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (1998)
- Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
- Deborah Ellis, Looking for X (2000)
- Arthur Slade, Dust (2001)
- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002)
- Glen Huser, Stitches (2003)
- Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004)
- Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (2005)
- William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage (2006)
- Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer (2007)
- John Ibbitson, The Landing (2008)
- Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009)
- Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing (2010)
- Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011)
- Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012)
- Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013)
- Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014)
- Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth (2015)
- Martine Leavitt, Calvin (2016)
- Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017)
- Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018)
- Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky (2019)
- Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches (2020)
- Philippa Dowding, Firefly (2021)
- Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022)
- Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything (2023)
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