Gil Adamson

Gil Adamson is an award-winning Canadian author of poetry, short stories, literature, and fiction books. Her novel, The Outlander, won the 2008 Book in Canada First Novel Award. Gil Adamson’s first published work was a poem titled Primitive, published in 1991. It was followed by a short story collection, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, published in 1995, followed by a second edition of poetry, Ashland, published in 2003. Gil co-authored Mulder It’s Me book with her sister-in-law Dawn Connolly. Her award-winning novel, The Outlander, is set in the Canada during the turn of the 20th century. It was published by the House of Anansi and also won the Hammett Prize in 2007, the same year it was published. The book was also chosen for the 2009 edition of Canada Reads, and Nicholas Campbell championed it.