Rachna Gilmore | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 11, 1953 India |
| Died | February 1, 2021 (aged 67) Ottawa, Canada |
| Occupation | Children's novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Website | |
| rachnagilmore | |
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