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

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

Gillmor's magazine writing has earned him three gold and seven silverCanadian National Magazine Awards,[4]and he has been called "one of Canada’s most celebrated profile writers".[5]In 2014, he won aNational Newspaper Awardfor an article[6]onbaby boomersandsuicide.[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]andLong 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 workCanada: A People's History,which accompanied the award-winning television programof the same name,and won the 2001 Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year.[11]Among his nine children's books areYuck, A Love Story(2000), which won the 2000Governor General's Awardfor Children's Literature, andThe Fabulous Song(1996), which won the Mr. Christie Book Award.[12]

Gillmor graduated from theUniversity of Calgarywith a B.A. in 1977.[13][14]He currently resides inToronto.

In 2019 he won theGovernor General's Award for English-language non-fictionfor his bookTo the River: Losing My Brother.[15]

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 AwardsArchived2016-03-04 at theWayback Machine,Retail Council of Canada
  12. ^"The Secret Mountain".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-03-04.Retrieved2016-01-15.
  13. ^"WordFest: Don Gillmor explores life of an oilman with Long Change | Calgary Herald".
  14. ^"Distinguished Alumni | Alumni | University of Calgary".Archived fromthe originalon 2017-01-03.Retrieved2017-08-26.
  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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