Rachna Gilmore
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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.[2] In 1990 Gilmore and her family moved to Ottawa.[3] She wrote literature for children and young adults, mainly, but also fiction for adults.
Gilmore died in February 2021, at the age of 67.[4][5]
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
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External links
- Author profile
- Jenkins, David Profile
- Author interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca
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