Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Windsor, Ontario,Canada |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Mystery fiction |
| Years active | 1987-present |
| Notable works | John Cardinalseries |
| Notable awards |
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Giles Blunt(born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, andscreenwriter.His first novel,Cold Eye,was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movieLes Couleurs du diable(Allain Jessua, 1997).
Career
[edit]Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, inNorthern Ontario.Blunt was born inWindsor, Ontario,and grew up inNorth Bay;Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay.
The first Cardinal story,Forty Words for Sorrow,won the BritishCrime Writers' AssociationSilver Dagger, and the second,The Delicate Storm,won the Crime Writers of Canada'sArthur Ellis Awardfor best novel, as did the sixth, "Until the Night." The 2010 John Cardinal novelCrime Machinewas described as "a richly plotted work by one of Canada's best mystery novelists."[1]
Blunt also has writtenNo Such Creature,a "road novel" set in the American southwest, andBreaking Lorca,which is set in a clandestine jail in El Salvador in the 1980s. Twice nominated for the Dublin IMPAC award,[2]his novels have been compared to the work of Ian Rankin and Cormac McCarthy.[3][4]
Blunt's television credits include episodes ofLaw & Order,Street Legal,andNight Heatplus four series ofCardinal,a series adapted from his novels.[5]
Awards and honors
[edit]Blunt received the honorary degree of Doctor of Education on June 12, 2014, fromNipissing University.[6]
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 2001 | Forty Words for Sorrow | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [8] |
| Silver Dagger Award | Winner | |||
| 2003 | The Delicate Storm | Hammett Prize | Finalist | |
| 2004 | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | ||
| Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Winner | [9] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [10] | ||
| 2006 | Black Fly Season | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [8] |
| 2007 | By the Time You Read This | Gold Dagger Award | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Until the Night | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Winner | [11] |
Bibliography
[edit]John Cardinal series
[edit]- 2000Forty Words for Sorrow.Random House Canada.ISBN0-425-18516-8
- 2002The Delicate Storm.Random House Canada.ISBN0-425-19678-X
- 2005Black Fly Season.Random House Canada.ISBN0-425-20957-1
- 2006By the Time You Read This(also published asThe Fields of Grief) Random House CanadaISBN0-679-31244-7
- 2010Crime MachineRandom House CanadaISBN978-0-679-31433-2
- 2012Until the NightRandom House CanadaISBN978-0679314356
Other books
[edit]- 1989Cold EyeAvon Books, US & Canada (paperback)ISBN0-380-70876-0
- 2008No Such CreatureRandom House CanadaISBN978-0-679-31431-8
- 2009Breaking LorcaRandom House CanadaISBN978-0-307-35700-7
- 2015The Hesitation CutRandom House CanadaISBN978-0-345-81597-2
- 2016Vanishing ActExile EditionsISBN978-1-55096-583-4(poems)
Screenwriting credits
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Night Heat | Episode:The Cost of Doing Business |
| 1987-89 | Diamonds | Episodes:The Smiling MorticianandDinosaur |
| 1991 | Law & Order | Episode:His Hour Upon the Stage |
| 1993 | Street Legal | Episode:Thicker Than Water |
Other
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Republic of Doyle | Script consultant, 2 episodes |
References
[edit]- ^Cannon, Margaret (18 December 2010)."Margaret Cannon's Deathly Dozen for 2010".The Globe and Mail.Toronto.Archivedfrom the original on 21 January 2012.Retrieved22 December2010.
- ^"The 2011 Award".International Dublin Literary Award.2011. Archived fromthe originalon 26 September 2011.
- ^O'Keefe, Catherine (5 December 2006)."Review: The Detective John Cardinal Mystery Series".Seven Oaks.Archived fromthe originalon 16 July 2011.Retrieved22 December2010.
- ^National Post,November 28, 2008.
- ^"Cardinal renewed for a fourth series".The Killing Times.8 June 2018.Archivedfrom the original on 30 July 2018.Retrieved29 July2018.
- ^"Nipissing announces 2014 honorary degrees".Nipissing University.4 June 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 17 June 2017.Retrieved4 July2017.
- ^"Giles Blunt".Stop, You're Killing Me!.Archivedfrom the original on 5 June 2023.Retrieved9 May2024.
- ^abRoger M. Sobin,The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians.Poisoned Pen Press,2011.ISBN9781615952038.pp. 191-194.
- ^"Book on Hells Angels takes prize".Brantford Expositor.12 June 2004.
- ^"Macavity Awards".Mystery Readers International.Archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2019.Retrieved1 January2023.
- ^"Giles Blunt, Steve Lillebuen take home Arthur Ellis Awards for crime writing".Canadian Press,May 31, 2013.
External links
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| How to use archival material |
- Official website
- Online interview from CBC's Words at Large
- "Honorary Degree Recipient Giles Blunt (video)".Nipissing University.2014.Retrieved4 July2017– via Vimeo.
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Canadian mystery writers
- Canadian male novelists
- People from North Bay, Ontario
- Writers from Windsor, Ontario
- Poets from Ontario
- Canadian male screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- Screenwriters from Ontario