Giles Blunt
1952
Giles Blunt is an author, screenwriter and novelist from Canada. He was born in Ontario in the year 1952. He has written many novels such as Forty Words for Sorrow, Black Fly Season, Cold Eye, etc. with Cold Eye being his first novel which he wrote in 1989. Most of his novels are of the thriller genre and are very much appreciated worldwide. The speciality of his novels is that he uses all real life locations in his stories. He develops the plots of his writings in the areas he grew up with a little disguise. For example, in the novel series John Cardinal he has mentioned North Bay in Northen Ontario as Algonquin Bay. Giles Blunt has received many awards from highly reputed associations for his writings. The first two novels of the John Cardinal series fetched him the British Crime Writers’ Asociation Silver Dagger and the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award respectively. He has proudly been compared with the likes of Ian Rankin and Cormac McCarthy and has been nominated for the Dublin IMPAC award two times. In June 2014, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of education from Nipissing University.