Charlotte Gill is a Canadian fiction and non-fiction writer.
Her short story collection Ladykiller won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2006, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2005 Governor General's Awards.[1] Her non-fiction book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2012,[2] and was a shortlisted finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[1]
Gill and her husband both formerly worked as professional tree planters.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt wins B.C. book award for non-fiction". The Globe and Mail, February 13, 2012.
- ^ "Charlotte Gill on winning the B.C. National Book Award". CBC Arts, February 23, 2012.
- ^ "Author Charlotte Gill recounts 17 years spent planting trees". Toronto Star, October 1, 2011.
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