Rachna Gilmore
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Rachna Gilmore | |
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| Born | October 11, 1953 India |
| Died | February 1, 2021 (aged 67) Ottawa, Canada |
| Occupation | Children's novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Website | |
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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.[2] In 1990 Gilmore and her family moved to Ottawa.[3] She wrote literature for children and young adults, mainly, but also fiction for adults.
