David Gilmour (writer)

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David Gilmour
Born	(1949-12-22) December 22, 1949 London, Ontario
Residence	Toronto
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Occupation	academic, former broadcaster
Spouse(s)	Anne Mackenzie 1980-1984, divorced Maggie Huculak 1985-? Tina Gladstone ?-present^[1]
Children	Maggie and Jesse (b. 1985)^[2]

David Gilmour BA Hons (French), BEd (born 22 December 1949) is a Canadian fiction novelist, former television journalist, film festival member and visiting lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Early life

Gilmour was born in London, Ontario and later moved to Toronto for schooling (He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto).

He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980, and held the post for four years. In 1986, he joined CBC Television as a film critic for The Journal, eventually becoming host of the program's Friday night arts and entertainment magazine. In 1990, he began hosting Gilmour on the Arts, an arts magazine series on CBC Newsworld.

Career

He left the CBC in 1997 to concentrate on his writing. His 2005 novel A Perfect Night to Go to China won the 2005 Governor General's Award for English fiction, and was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award.

In June 2007, Gilmour won two gold National Magazine Awards for his essay "My Life with Tolstoy"^[3] which appeared in The Walrus magazine.^[4]

Gilmour is a Pelham Edgar Professor of Literary Studies at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (but is not a tenured professor with the Department of English)^[5]) since 2006.

Views on authors

On September 27, 2013 media outlets released information regarding conversations and interviews with Gilmour and his literary views.^[6] He stated that he does not teach works written by women, gay individuals or those of Chinese ethnicity.^[7] Gilmour is quoted as saying: "What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys".^[8] The articles also state that when students want to read about women or any of those authors that he has excluded from his curriculum, he directs them to another tutor. He however acknowledged that he does teach one short story by Virginia Woolf as an exception. This has lead to a backlash from University of Toronto students and from the school's acting chair of the Department of English.^[9]

Novels

Back on Tuesday (1986)
How Boys See Girls (1991)
An Affair with the Moon (1993)
Lost Between Houses (1999)
Sparrow Nights (2001)
A Perfect Night to Go to China, Thomas Allen Publishers (2005)
The Film Club, Thomas Allen Publishers (2007)

The Perfect Order of Things, Thomas Allen Publishers (2011)
Extraordinary, Patrick Crean Editions (2013) (longlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize)

Memoir

The Film Club, Thomas Allen Publishers (2007)

References

External links

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 3957298 LCCN: n86109552 ISNI: 0000 0001 1020 2296 GND: 137363001

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Name	Gilmour, David
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian writer
Date of birth	22 December 1949
Place of birth	London, Ontario
Date of death
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