Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Mystery fiction |
| Years active | 1987-present |
| Notable works | John Cardinal series |
| Notable awards |
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Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable (Allain Jessua, 1997).
Career[edit]
Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay; Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay.
The first Cardinal story, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best novel, as did the sixth, "Until the Night." The 2010 John Cardinal novel Crime Machine was described as "a richly plotted work by one of Canada's best mystery novelists."[1]
Blunt also has written No Such Creature, a "road novel" set in the American southwest, and Breaking Lorca, which is set in a clandestine jail in El Salvador in the 1980s. Twice nominated for the Dublin IMPAC award,[2] his novels have been compared to the work of Ian Rankin and Cormac McCarthy.[3][4]
Blunt's television credits include episodes of Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat plus four series of Cardinal, a series adapted from his novels.[5]
Awards and honors[edit]
Blunt received the honorary degree of Doctor of Education on June 12, 2014, from Nipissing University.[6]
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Forty Words for Sorrow | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [8] |
| Silver Dagger Award | Winner | |||
| 2003 | The Delicate Storm | Hammett Prize | Finalist | |
| 2004 | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | ||
| Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Winner | [9] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [10] | ||
| 2006 | Black Fly Season | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [11] |
| 2007 | By the Time You Read This | Gold Dagger Award | Finalist | |
| 2013 | Until the Night | Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel | Winner | [12] |
Bibliography[edit]
John Cardinal series[edit]
- 2000 Forty Words for Sorrow Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-18516-8
- 2002 The Delicate Storm Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-19678-X
- 2005 Black Fly Season Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-20957-1
- 2006 By the Time You Read This (also published as The Fields of Grief) Random House Canada ISBN 0-679-31244-7
- 2010 Crime Machine Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-679-31433-2
- 2012 Until the Night Random House Canada ISBN 978-0679314356
Other books[edit]
- 1989 Cold Eye Avon Books, US & Canada (paperback) ISBN 0-380-70876-0
- 2008 No Such Creature Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-679-31431-8
- 2009 Breaking Lorca Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-307-35700-7
- 2015 The Hesitation Cut Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-345-81597-2
- 2016 Vanishing Act Exile Editions ISBN 978-1-55096-583-4 (poems)
Screenwriting credits[edit]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Night Heat | Episode: The Cost of Doing Business |
| 1987-89 | Diamonds | Episodes: The Smiling Mortician and Dinosaur |
| 1991 | Law & Order | Episode: His Hour Upon the Stage |
| 1993 | Street Legal | Episode: Thicker Than Water |
Other[edit]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Republic of Doyle | Script consultant, 2 episodes |
References[edit]
- ^ Cannon, Margaret (18 December 2010). "Margaret Cannon's Deathly Dozen for 2010". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ "The 2011 Award". International Dublin Literary Award. 2011. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011.
- ^ O'Keefe, Catherine (5 December 2006). "Review: The Detective John Cardinal Mystery Series". Seven Oaks. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ National Post, November 28, 2008.
- ^ "Cardinal renewed for a fourth series". The Killing Times. 8 June 2018. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Nipissing announces 2014 honorary degrees". Nipissing University. 4 June 2014. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "Giles Blunt". Stop, You're Killing Me!. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ Roger M. Sobin, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. ISBN 9781615952038. pp. 191-194.
- ^ "Book on Hells Angels takes prize". Brantford Expositor. 12 June 2004.
- ^ "Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ Roger M. Sobin, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. ISBN 9781615952038. pp. 191-194.
- ^ "Giles Blunt, Steve Lillebuen take home Arthur Ellis Awards for crime writing". Canadian Press, May 31, 2013.
External links[edit]
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| How to use archival material |
- Official website
- Online interview from CBC's Words at Large
- "Honorary Degree Recipient Giles Blunt (video)". Nipissing University. 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2017 – via Vimeo.
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| National | |
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Canadian mystery writers
- Canadian male novelists
- People from North Bay, Ontario
- Writers from Windsor, Ontario
- Poets from Ontario
- Canadian male screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters