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Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt
Born	1952 (age 72–73); Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Author
Genre	Mystery fiction
Years active	1987–present
Notable works	John Cardinal series
Notable awards	Silver Dagger Award (2001); Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel (2004, 2013);

Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable (Allain Jessua, 1997).

Career

Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay; Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay.

The first Cardinal story, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best novel, as did the sixth, Until the Night. The 2010 John Cardinal novel Crime Machine was described as "a richly plotted work by one of Canada's best mystery novelists."^[1]

Blunt also has written No Such Creature, a "road novel" set in the American southwest, and Breaking Lorca, which is set in a clandestine jail in El Salvador in the 1980s. Twice nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award,^[2] his novels have been compared to the work of Ian Rankin and Cormac McCarthy.^[3]^[4]

Giles Blunt on Bookbits radio.

Blunt's television credits include episodes of Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat plus four series of Cardinal, a series adapted from his novels.^[5]

Awards and honors

Blunt received the honorary degree of Doctor of Education on June 12, 2014, from Nipissing University.^[6]

Awards for Blunt's writing^[7]
Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2001	Forty Words for Sorrow	Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel	Finalist	^[8]
2001	Forty Words for Sorrow	Silver Dagger	Winner
2003	The Delicate Storm	Hammett Prize	Finalist
2004		Anthony Award for Best Novel	Finalist
		Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel	Winner	^[9]
		Macavity Award for Best Novel	Finalist	^[10]
2006	Black Fly Season	Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel	Finalist	^[8]
2007	By the Time You Read This	Gold Dagger	Finalist
2013	Until the Night	Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel	Winner	^[11]

Bibliography

John Cardinal series

2000 Forty Words for Sorrow. Random House Canada. ISBN 9780425185162
2002 The Delicate Storm. Random House Canada. ISBN 9780425196786
2005 Black Fly Season. Random House Canada. ISBN 9780425209578
2006 By the Time You Read This (also published as The Fields of Grief) Random House Canada ISBN 9780679312444
2010 Crime Machine Random House Canada ISBN 9780679314332
2012 Until the Night Random House Canada ISBN 9780679314356

Other books

1989 Cold Eye Avon Books, US & Canada (paperback) ISBN 9780380708765
2008 No Such Creature Random House Canada ISBN 9780679314318
2009 Breaking Lorca Random House Canada ISBN 9780307357007
2015 The Hesitation Cut Random House Canada ISBN 9780345815972
2016 Vanishing Act Exile Editions ISBN 9781550965834 (poems)

Screenwriting credits

Year	Title	Notes
1987	Night Heat	Episode: The Cost of Doing Business
1987-89	Diamonds	Episodes: The Smiling Mortician and Dinosaur
1991	Law & Order	Episode: His Hour Upon the Stage
1993	Street Legal	Episode: Thicker Than Water

Other

Year	Title	Notes
2011	Republic of Doyle	Script consultant, 2 episodes

References

^ Cannon, Margaret (18 December 2010). "Margaret Cannon's Deathly Dozen for 2010". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
^ "The 2011 Award". International Dublin Literary Award. 2011. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011.
^ O'Keefe, Catherine (5 December 2006). "Review: The Detective John Cardinal Mystery Series". Seven Oaks. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
^ National Post, November 28, 2008.
^ "Cardinal renewed for a fourth series". The Killing Times. 8 June 2018. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
^ "Nipissing announces 2014 honorary degrees". Nipissing University. 4 June 2014. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
^ "Giles Blunt". Stop, You're Killing Me!. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Roger M. Sobin, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. ISBN 9781615952038. pp. 191-194.
^ "Book on Hells Angels takes prize". Brantford Expositor. 12 June 2004.
^ "Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
^ "Giles Blunt, Steve Lillebuen take home Arthur Ellis Awards for crime writing". Canadian Press, May 31, 2013.