David Gilmour (writer)

David Gilmour (* 1949 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian writer, television journalist and film critic.

David Gilmour was from 1980 for four years editor of the Toronto International Film Festival. From 1986 to 1997 he worked as a film critic for the Canadian television station CBC Television. In 1986 he published his first novel. Since then he has published seven novels in Canada. David Gilmour live in Toronto.

Works (selection)

  • 2009: Our very best year, Roman, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 978-3-10-027819-7 (The Film Club, translated by Adelheid Zöfel )
  • 2011: The perfect order of things, Roman, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 978-3-10-027823-4 ( The perfect order of things, translated by Adelheid Zöfel )

Awards

  • 2005 Governor General's Award for Fiction for A Perfect Night to Go to China
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature ( English )
  • TV journalist
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
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