Rachna Gilmore
Born(1953-10-11)October 11, 1953
India
DiedFebruary 1, 2021(2021-02-01) (aged 67)
Ottawa, Canada
OccupationChildren's novelist
NationalityCanadian
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

  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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