Canadian novelist, journalist and film critic (born 1949)
David Gilmour
Born (1949-12-22 ) December 22, 1949 (age 76) Alma mater University of Toronto Occupations Academic, novelist, former broadcaster Spouse(s) Anne Mackenzie 1980–1984, divorced[ 1] Children 2[ 1]
David Gilmour (born 22 December 1949) is a Canadian fiction novelist, former television journalist, film critic, and former professor at theUniversity of Toronto .[ 2]
Gilmour was born inLondon, Ontario , and later moved toToronto for schooling. He is a graduate ofUpper Canada College and theUniversity of Toronto .
He became managing editor of theToronto International Film Festival in 1980 and held the post for four years. In 1986, he joinedCBC Television as a film critic forThe Journal Gilmour on the Arts CBC Newsworld .
He left CBC in 1997 to concentrate on his writing. His 2005 novelA Perfect Night to Go to China 2005 Governor General's Award for English fiction, and was longlisted for the 2007International Dublin Literary Award .
In June 2007, Gilmour won two goldNational Magazine Awards for his essay "My Life with Tolstoy"[ 3] The Walrus [ 4]
Gilmour was a Professor of Literary Studies atVictoria College at theUniversity of Toronto and taught Creative Writing and Literature from 2007 to 2021, during which time he provoked student-led protests when he told a Hazlitt reporter "When I was given this job, I said that I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. And, unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women ... I say I don’t love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers, go down the hall. What I’m good at is guys… Very serious heterosexual guys."[ 5]
1930s 1940s Ringuet ,Thirty Acres Alan Sullivan ,Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)G. Herbert Sallans ,Little Man Thomas Head Raddall ,The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)Gwethalyn Graham ,Earth and High Heaven Hugh MacLennan ,Two Solitudes Winifred Bambrick ,Continental Revue (1946)Gabrielle Roy ,The Tin Flute Hugh MacLennan ,The Precipice Philip Child ,Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)1950s Germaine Guèvremont ,The Outlander Morley Callaghan ,The Loved and the Lost (1951)David Walker ,The Pillar (1952)David Walker ,Digby (1953)Igor Gouzenko ,The Fall of a Titan (1954)Lionel Shapiro ,The Sixth of June (1955)Adele Wiseman ,The Sacrifice (1956)Gabrielle Roy ,Street of Riches Colin McDougall ,Execution Hugh MacLennan ,The Watch That Ends the Night 1960s 1970s Dave Godfrey ,The New Ancestors (1970)Mordecai Richler ,St. Urbain's Horseman Robertson Davies ,The Manticore Rudy Wiebe ,The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)Margaret Laurence ,The Diviners Brian Moore ,The Great Victorian Collection Marian Engel ,Bear Timothy Findley ,The Wars Alice Munro ,Who Do You Think You Are? Jack Hodgins ,The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)1980s George Bowering ,Burning Water (1980)Mavis Gallant ,Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)Guy Vanderhaeghe ,Man Descending Leon Rooke ,Shakespeare's Dog Josef Škvorecký ,The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)Margaret Atwood ,The Handmaid's Tale Alice Munro ,The Progress of Love M. T. Kelly ,A Dream Like Mine (1987)David Adams Richards ,Nights Below Station Street Paul Quarrington ,Whale Music 1990s Nino Ricci ,Lives of the Saints Rohinton Mistry ,Such a Long Journey Michael Ondaatje ,The English Patient Carol Shields ,The Stone Diaries Rudy Wiebe ,A Discovery of Strangers (1994)Greg Hollingshead ,The Roaring Girl (1995)Guy Vanderhaeghe ,The Englishman's Boy Jane Urquhart ,The Underpainter Diane Schoemperlen ,Forms of Devotion (1998)Matt Cohen ,Elizabeth and After 2000s Michael Ondaatje ,Anil's Ghost Richard B. Wright ,Clara Callan Gloria Sawai ,A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)Douglas Glover ,Elle (2003)Miriam Toews ,A Complicated Kindness David Gilmour ,A Perfect Night to Go to China Peter Behrens ,The Law of Dreams Michael Ondaatje ,Divisadero Nino Ricci ,The Origin of Species (2008)Kate Pullinger ,The Mistress of Nothing (2009)2010s Dianne Warren ,Cool Water (2010)Patrick deWitt ,The Sisters Brothers Linda Spalding ,The Purchase (2012)Eleanor Catton ,The Luminaries Thomas King ,The Back of the Turtle Guy Vanderhaeghe ,Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)Madeleine Thien ,Do Not Say We Have Nothing Joel Thomas Hynes ,We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Sarah Henstra ,The Red Word Joan Thomas ,Five Wives 2020s
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