Giles Blunt was born in 1952 in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay,
Ontario. He describes his parents as being "so
English that the space on their passports for citizenship could only be filled
in 'British Beyond Belief.'" He spent most of his education at a Catholic
boys' school called Scollard Hall, moving to a "regular school", Algonquin
Composite, for his last two years.
His career started with poetry which was published in various publications
including Grain and Poetry
Canada. Then he fell in love with movies and decided to write
screenplays and, in 1980, moved to New York, where he lived
for the next 22 years. He says, "living in New York gave me enough
distance from northern Ontario to see it through a very long lens. I now visit
North Bay and it seems exotic. It is exotic. It's ridiculous that anybody should
live there, really, in the land of ice and snow. I mean, what kind of person
comes to a hunk of rock surrounded by ice and pine trees and figures it's a good
bet to settle down there? Okay, fur traders. But as soon as they have enough
money fur traders head for Florida just like everyone else."
He worked in various restaurants and bars in New York before getting a
two-year contract with Grosso-Jacobson, who co-produced Night Heat.
In addition to working on Night Heat he wrote the pilot for Diamonds, a detective show than ran for a
couple of years; and also wrote episodes for Law & Order and Street
Legal.
His first novel, Cold Eye, was published in 1989 and was made into a
French movie, Les Couleurs du diable (1997). He wrote the first in
his John Cardinal series, Forty Words For Sorrow, in 2000. This was
followed by The Delicate Storm (2002), Blackfly Season (2005) and
By The Time You Read This (2006). The series, which has won
both the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger and the Crime Writers of Canada
Arthur Ellis awards, is set in Algonquin
Bay - a thinly disguised version of the city of North Bay, Ontario (about 200
miles from Toronto on the Ottawa River and Lake Nipissing).
Giles Blunt's website
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