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Rachna Gilmore

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Background
Works
References
External links

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}}Rachna Gilmore (born 1953) is an award-winning children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.^[1]

Background

Born in India, 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.

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

1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/cumulativewinners20091.pdf |title=Cumulative List Of Winners Of The Governor General's Literary Awards |accessdate=6 March 2010 |publisher=Canada Council for the Arts |pages=23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514154438/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/cumulativewinners20091.pdf |archivedate=14 May 2011 |df= }}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.canscaip.org/bios/gilmorer.html |title=Rachna Gilmore |accessdate=6 March 2010 |publisher=Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117121626/http://www.canscaip.org/bios/gilmorer.html |archivedate=17 January 2010 |df= }}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100117121626/http://www.canscaip.org/bios/gilmorer.html Author profile]
Jenkins, David Profile
Author interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca

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