Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt 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.
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 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."
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, his novels have been compared to the work of Ian Rankin and Cormac McCarthy.
Blunt's television credits include episodes of Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat plus four seasons of Cardinal, a series adapted from his novels.
Awards and honors
Blunt received the honorary degree of Doctor of Education on June 12, 2014, from Nipissing University.| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | |
| 2001 | Forty Words for Sorrow | Arthur Ellis Award | Crime Writers of [Canada Award for Best Novel|Novel] | ||
| 2001 | Forty Words for Sorrow | Silver Dagger | — | Won | |
| 2003 | The Delicate Storm | Hammett Prize | — | ||
| 2004 | The Delicate Storm | Anthony Awards | Novel | ||
| 2004 | The Delicate Storm | Arthur Ellis Award | Novel | Won | |
| 2004 | The Delicate Storm | Macavity Awards | Novel | ||
| 2006 | Black Fly Season | Arthur Ellis Award | Novel | ||
| 2007 | By the Time You Read This | Gold Dagger | — | ||
| 2013 | Until the Night | Arthur Ellis Award | Novel | Won |