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CANSCAIP MembersGillian ChanAuthor
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Born: 29th March 1954. Cleethorpes, United Kingdom BiographyGillian Chan was born in England in 1954. The daughter of a serving RAF officer, she got used to moving every two years as her father was posted to new stations in England and Europe. This made for an interesting childhood, and led to her becoming a good observer, a characteristic which is a useful one for a writer. Before she trained as an English and Drama teacher, she had many different jobs, including bank clerk, shop assistant, mail sorter, dish washer and bar tender. She came to Canada in 1990, settling in Dundas, Ontario, where she still lives with her actor husband, and her son. Her two collections of short stories for young adults, "Golden Girl" and "Glory Days", draw upon her experiences as a teacher. She made the switch from writing short stories to novels in 2001 and her first novel, "The Carved Box" (Kids Can Press 2001), is an historical fantasy in which myth, folklore and fact mingle. Two historical novels followed, "A Foreign Field" (Kids Can Press 2002) and "Dear Canada: An Ocean Apart - the Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling" (Scholastic 2004). Published WorksThe Turning, Kids Can Press, 2005 Awards
A Foreign Field, 2002
The Carved Box, 2001
Glory Days, 1996
Golden Girl, 1994 Other MembershipsThe Writers' Union of Canada Available ForReadings |
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