David Gilmour (writer)
| David Gilmour | |
|---|---|
| Born |
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)[1] |
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.[2]
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
In a September 2013 magazine interview with Emily M. Keeler for Hazlitt,[6] Gilmour said he did not teach works written by women, gays or those of Chinese ethnicity [7] Gilmour said: "What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys".[8] He acknowledged that he does teach one short story by Virginia Woolf. Gilmour faced a brief backlash from University of Toronto students and from the school's acting chair of English.[5]
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 (2008)
- 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
- 1 2 "David Gilmour". Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ↑ David Gilmour's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ↑ The Walrus » David Gilmour » My Life with Tolstoy » Memoir
- ↑ Paula E. Kirman/Calypso Communications and Consulting. "David Gilmour: a website". Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- 1 2 "University of Toronto students protest David Gilmour". 27 September 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ↑ "David Gilmour on Building Strong Stomachs". Hazlitt. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ↑ Prachi Gupta. "Novelist David Gilmour: "I'm not interested in teaching books by women"". Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ↑ "David Gilmour, Canadian Professor And Author, Isn't Interested In Teaching Books By Women". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 September 2015.