Rachna Gilmore

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Rachna Gilmore (11 October 1953 – 1 February 2021) was a Canadian children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.^[1]

Born in India in October 1953, 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.^[2] She wrote literature for children and young adults, mainly, but also fiction for adults.

Gilmore died in February 2021, at the age of 67.^[3]

Picture books

• My Mother is Weird (1988)
• When I Was A Little Girl (1989)
• Jane's Loud Mouth (1990)
• Aunt Fred is a Witch (1991)
• Lights for Gita (1994)
• Roses for Gita (1996)
• Wild Rilla (1997)
• A Gift for Gita (1998)
• A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
• Grandpa's Clock (2006)
• Making Grizzle Grow (2007)
• Catching Time (2010)
• The Flute (2011)

Children's novels

• A Friend Like Zilla (1995)
• Mina's Spring of Colors (2000)
• A Group of One (2001)
• The Sower of Tales (2005)
• The Trouble With Dilly (2009)
• That Boy Red (2011)

Early readers

• Ellen's Terrible TV Trouble (1999)
• Fangs and Me (1999)

Non-fiction

• Snapshots From The Fringes (2010)

Adult fiction

• Of Customs and Excise (1991, under pseudonym Rachna Mara)

• Author profile
• Jenkins, David Profile
• Author interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca

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