David Gilmour

DAVID GILMOUR is the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author of seven previous novels and one work of non-fiction (The Film Club). Winner of the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for A Perfect Night to Go to China, Gilmour has seen his books translated into twenty-seven languages. For many years, Gilmour was a fixture on Canadian television as the national film critic for CBC’s The Journal, as well as the host of his own Gemini Award-winning show, Gilmour on the Arts. He is presently the Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of literary studies at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.