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Don Gillmor

Don Gillmor’s most recent book To the River won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. He is the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, which won the Libris Award, and two other books of non-fiction, The Desire of Every Living Thing and I Swear by Apollo. He has written three critically acclaimed novels – Kanata, Mount Pleasant and Long Change – as well as nine books for children, two of which were nominated for a Governor General’s Award. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.

Books by Don Gillmor

On Oil

Breaking and Entering

Carload Ritchie

To the River

Long Change

Mount Pleasant

La Fabuleuse mélodie de Frédéric Petitpin

Hockey Hall of Fame Treasures

The Time Time Stopped

Kanata

Yuck, a Love Story

The Boy Who Ate the World

Insight and On Site

The Fabulous Song

Sophie and the Sea Monster

Sophie et le monstre sous le lit

Canada: A People's History Volume 1

Canada: A People's History Volume 2

The Desire of Every Living Thing