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David Gilmour is a novelist who has earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and
publications ranging from The New York Times to People Magazine. His fourth novel, Lost Between Houses, was a national
bestseller in 1999 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Book Award. Sparrow Nights, his fifth novel, was published in 2001 by Random House to
excellent reviews in The Globe and Mail, The New York Times and Washington
Post.
For many years Mr. Gilmour was a fixture on Canadian television. He was the national film critic for CBC television's The Journal and hosted his own talk show,
the award-winning Gilmour on the Arts. He was also the weekend host for the Documentary Channel while programing and hosting Classic Films aboard Air Canada.
Recently, he wrote and narrated CBC Life and Times documentaries on Patrick Watson and William Hutt.
David has two children and lives in Toronto with his wife, Tina Gladstone and
her daughter Amelia. His sixth novel, A Perfect Night to Go to China,
won the 2005 Governor-General's Award for fiction and has been translated
into Russian, French, Thai, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Serbian.
His first, critically-praised novel, Back on Tuesday, was re-published in
a new edition by McArthur & Company in March of 2006.
His new book, The Film Club, is a non-fiction account of what happened when
he let his teenage son drop out of school -- on condition that he watch
three movies a week with his father. The Film Club is published in Canada
with Thomas Allen Publishers, with Twelve in the U.S. and Random House,
U.K. It will be published in Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Italy, China, Brazil, and Catalan this fall.
In June of 2007, Gilmour won two gold National Magazine Awards for his essay
"My Life with Tolstoy" which appeared in The Walrus magazine. He is currently the Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Here is the interview David did with Evan Solomon on CBC News in January of 2007, in streaming video (the link will open in a new browser window).
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