Charlotte Gill

Charlotte Gill is a Canadian fiction and non-fiction writer.

Her short story collection Ladykiller won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2006, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2005 Governor General's Awards.[1] Her non-fiction book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2012,[2] and was a shortlisted finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[1]

Gill and her husband both formerly worked as professional tree planters.[3]

References
  1. "Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt wins B.C. book award for non-fiction". The Globe and Mail, February 13, 2012.
  2. "Charlotte Gill on winning the B.C. National Book Award". CBC Arts, February 23, 2012.
  3. "Author Charlotte Gill recounts 17 years spent planting trees". Toronto Star, October 1, 2011.


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