Rachna Gilmore

Rachna Gilmore
Rachna Gilmore
Born	October 11, 1953; India
Died	February 1, 2021 (aged 67); Ottawa, Canada
Occupation	Children's novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Website
	rachnagilmore.ca

Rachna Gilmore (11 October 1953 – 1 February 2021) was a Canadian children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.^[1]

Life and career

Born in India in October 1953, 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.

Gilmore died in February 2021, at the age of 67.^[3]

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

^ "Cumulative List Of Winners Of The Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
^ "Rachna Gilmore". Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
^ Rachna GILMORE obituary

External links

Author profile
Jenkins, David Profile
Author interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca

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[1] "Cumulative List Of Winners Of The Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2010.

[2] "Rachna Gilmore". Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2010.

[3] Rachna GILMORE obituary

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Rachna Gilmore
Born	(1953-10-11)October 11, 1953 India
Died	February 1, 2021(2021-02-01) (aged 67) Ottawa, Canada
Occupation	Children's novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Website
rachnagilmore.ca