Gil Adamson

Gil Adamson

Gillian (Gil) Adamson is a Canadian writer. She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel "The Outlander".

Adamson's first published work was "Primitive", a volume of poetry, in 1991. She followed up with the short story collection "Help Me, Jacques Cousteau" in 1995 and a second volume of poetry, "Ashland", in 2003, as well as a fan biography of Gillian Anderson, "Mulder, It’s Me", which she coauthored with her sister-in-law Dawn Connolly in 1998. [ [http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=7810 "Going Public"] , "Quill & Quire", June 2007.] "The Outlander", a novel set in the Canadian West at the turn of the 20th century, was published by House of Anansi in the spring of 2007.

Adamson currently lives in Toronto with poet Kevin Connolly.

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* [http://giladamson.com/ Gil Adamson]


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