Giles Blunt
Auteur de Quarante mots pour la neige
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Janna Eggeheen
Séries
Œuvres de Giles Blunt
Cuarenta manera de decir dolor 1 exemplaire
Gefrorene Seelen 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Blunt, Giles
- Date de naissance
- 1952-02-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- North Bay, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Windsor, Ontario, Canada - Études
- University of Toronto (English literature)
- Professions
- screenwriter
- Prix et distinctions
- Arthur Ellis Award (2004)
- Agent
- Helen Heller (Helen Heller Agency)
- Courte biographie
- I grew up in North Bay, Ontario, a child of parents so English that the space on their passports for citizenship could only be filled in: British Beyond Belief. They had colorful accents and amusing habits and never allowed themselves to be influenced by Canadians. Consequently I lived in England at home and Canada at school.
Things were further confused by my growing up Catholic. British people aren't supposed to be Catholic, but I attended a Catholic boys' school called Scollard Hall where I was subject to the usual bullying and injustice. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Eventually, I negotiated a deal with my parents that got me into a regular school for grades twelve and thirteen. Algonquin Composite had actual girls in it and consequently my attendance improved.
The result of this peculiar background was that I never felt truly Canadian; I always felt like a visitor. Then, in 1980, I moved to New York City where I lived for the next 22 years. Americans treat Canadians in their midst with a sort of amused condescension that's quite touching. You know: "They come down here, they take our women..."
Living in New York gave me enough distance from northern Ontario to see it through a very long lens. I now visit North Bay and it seems exotic. It is exotic. It's ridiculous that anybody should live there, really, in the land of ice and snow. I mean, what kind of person comes to a hunk of rock surrounded by ice and pine trees and figures it's a good bet to settle down there? Okay, fur traders. But as soon as they have enough money fur traders head for Florida just like everyone else.
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Global Mysteries (2)
Five star books (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Membres
- 3,100
- Popularité
- #8,239
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 193
- ISBN
- 195
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 14