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Don Gillmor is a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and writer of children's books;[1] he is the recipient of many awards for his journalism and fiction.

Career

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Gillmor's writing has appeared in Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Rolling Stone, GQ, National Geographic, Toronto Life and The Walrus, where he worked as senior editor.[2] He also served on the faculty of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre.[3]

Gillmor's magazine writing has earned him three gold and seven silver Canadian National Magazine Awards,[4] and he has been called "one of Canada’s most celebrated profile writers".[5] In 2014, he won a National Newspaper Award for an article[6] on baby boomers and suicide.[7]

Gillmor is the author of three works of fiction: Kanata (2009), a Canadian historical epic,[8] Mount Pleasant (2013), a comic novel about debt[9] and Long Change (2015), which explores the life of an oilman (Gillmor worked on an oil rig in the late 1970s[10]). He's also written five books of non-fiction, including the two-volume work Canada: A People's History, which accompanied the award-winning television program of the same name, and won the 2001 Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year.[11] Among his nine children's books are Yuck, A Love Story (2000), which won the 2000 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and The Fabulous Song (1996), which won the Mr. Christie Book Award.[12]

Gillmor graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.A. in 1977.[13][14]

In 2019 he won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book To the River: Losing My Brother.[15]

Personal life

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He currently resides in Toronto.

Bibliography

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Non-fiction

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  • Canada: A People’s History, Volume I (2000)
  • Canada: A People’s History, Volume II (2001)
  • The Desire of Every Living Thing (2000)
  • Insight and On Site: The Work of Diamond + Schmitt (2008)
  • Stratford Behind the Scenes (2012)
  • To the River (2018)

Fiction

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  • Kanata (2009)
  • Mount Pleasant (2013)
  • Long Change (2015)

Children's books

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  • The Trouble with Justin (1993)
  • When Vegetables Go Bad (1994)
  • The Fabulous Song (1995)
  • The Christmas Orange (1998)
  • Yuck, A Love Story (2000)
  • Sophie and the Sea Monster (2005)
  • The Boy Who Ate the World (2008)
  • The Time Time Stopped (2011)

References

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  1. ^ Barber, John (4 April 2013), "We will be forever in Don Gillmor’s debt", The Globe and Mail, retrieved 19 January 2016
  2. ^ Brown, Ian (ed.) (2014). What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men. Dundurn Press.
  3. ^ Trethewey, Laura (14 November 2012), "Don Gillmor’s 'sense of the mountains', Made in Banff, retrieved 19 January 2016
  4. ^ 'Who Won the Most?', National Magazine Awards website
  5. ^ Hampson, Sarah (29 March 2013), "In Don Gillmor’s second novel, debt is the new death", The Globe and Mail, retrieved 15 Jan 2016
  6. ^ Gillmor, Don (8 February 2013), "Baby boomers and suicide: The surprising trend", Toronto Star, retrieved 19 Jan 2016
  7. ^ (17 March 2014) "Star captures 13 National Newspaper Award nominations", Toronto Star, retrieved 19 Jan 2016
  8. ^ Armstrong, Bob (7 November 2009), "Gillmor maps out blind luck, inevitability of history", Winnipeg Free Press, retrieved 15 Jan 2016
  9. ^ Good, Alex (28 March 2013), "Book Review: Mount Pleasant, by Don Gillmor", National Post. Retrieved 15 Jan. 2016,
  10. ^ Volmers, Eric (12 October 2015), "WordFest: Don Gillmor explores life of an oilman with Long Change", Calgary Herald, retrieved 14 Jan 2016
  11. ^ Winner History – Libris Awards Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Retail Council of Canada
  12. ^ "The Secret Mountain". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  13. ^ "WordFest: Don Gillmor explores life of an oilman with Long Change | Calgary Herald".
  14. ^ "Distinguished Alumni | Alumni | University of Calgary". Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  15. ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2019.
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