13 Facts About Graeme Gibson

Graeme Gibson was a Member of the Order of Canada, a Senior Fellow of Massey College and one of the organizers of the Writers Union of Canada.

Graeme Gibson was a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

Graeme Gibson's non-fiction included Eleven Canadian Novelists and more recently, The Bedside Book of Birds and The Bedside Book of Beasts.

An arts, environmental and social justice advocate, Graeme Gibson was one of the founders of the Writers' Union of Canada, which recognized his contribution by establishing an award in his honour in 1991.

Graeme Gibson was involved in the formation of the Writer's Trust of Canada and was a co-founder and president of PEN Canada.

Graeme Gibson had a small acting role in the 1983 film The Wars.

Graeme Gibson was a founder and chair of the Pelee Island Bird Observatory, served on the Council of the World Wildlife Fund, and with Margaret Atwood, as co-chair of Birdlife International's Rare Bird Club.

Graeme Gibson was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which awarded him a Gold Medal in 2015.

Graeme Gibson was married to publisher Shirley Graeme Gibson until the early 1970s, and together they had two sons, Matt and Grae.

Graeme Gibson began dating novelist and poet Margaret Atwood in 1973.

Atwood and Graeme Gibson stayed together until his death in 2019.

In 2017 Graeme Gibson was diagnosed with early signs of vascular dementia.

Graeme Gibson died on 18 September 2019 in London, England, where Atwood was promoting her new book, five days after suffering a severe stroke.