Rachna Gilmore

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name = Rachna Gilmore
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birthdate = 1953
birthplace = India
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occupation = Children's novelist
nationality = Canadian
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website = http://www.rachnagilmore.ca

Rachna Gilmore (born 1953) is an award-winning children's writer.

Her picture book "A Screaming Kind of Day" won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.

Born in India, 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.

Works

*"My Mother is Weird" (1988)
*"When-I-was-a-little-girl" (1989)
*"Jane's Loud Mouth" (1990)
*"Aunt Fred is a Witch" (1991)
*"Of Customs an Excise" (1992) (using pseudonym 1992)
*"Lights for Gita" (1994)
*"A Friend Like Zilla" (1995)
*"Roses for Gita" (1996)
*"Wild Rilla" (1997)
*"A Gift for Gita" (1998)
*"A Screaming Kind of Day" (1999)
*"Fangs and Me" (1999)
*"Ellen's Terrible TV Troubles" (1999)
*"Mina’s Spring of Colors" (2000)
*"A Group of One" (2001)
*"The Sower of Tales" (2005)
*"Grandpa’s Clock" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.canscaip.org/bios/gilmorer.html Author profile]
* Jenkins, David [http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/gilmore.html Profile]