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TFP in Italy!
November 09 / 2008
I’m happy to report that The Fearsome Particles will be published in Italy by Alet Edizioni. Details such as who will do the translation and what the publication dates will be have yet to be determined. But it’s a done deal, so thanks to the people at Westwood Creative Artists for making it happen.
At work
August 29 / 2008
Currently Trevor is working on his third novel. It promises to be quite different from his previous two, particularly in its more serious tone. Stay tuned.
McMaster Writer in Residence
August 15 / 2008
Trevor Cole will be writer in residence at Hamilton’s McMaster University in the fall of 2009.
Trevor Cole has been called "one of the best young novelists in Canada" by The Globe and Mail. He has worked everywhere from a factory floor to the boardroom of a national newspaper. Since 1982 he’s made his living from words, first as a radio copywriter, typing out 30-second spots for bun shops, furriers and Nissan dealerships, then as a magazine editor, then as an award-winning journalist. Aside from an eight-month detour as the Globe and Mail’s travel editor, he spent 15 years in the newspaper’s magazine division, culminating in a successful three-year stint as a senior writer at Report on Business Magazine. Upon leaving the Globe in 2001 he wrote a fortnightly satirical column for Canadian Business, which for two years existed as a notorious irritant to many of Canada’s most prominent business leaders.
While still a journalist writing feature stories for Toronto Life, Report on Business Magazine and other publications, Cole has for the last several years devoted a great part of his energies to fiction. His first novel, Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, published in 2004, garnered enormous acclaim, appeared on the Maclean’s bestseller list, was adapted for radio and audio book, and was nominated for a Governor General's Literary award and several others, which you can see below. His second novel, The Fearsome Particles, published in September, won for Cole his second Governor General's award nomination.
Cole is also an enthusiastic writing mentor. He has worked with high-school writers in the Writers-in-Electrinic-Residence program, and recently completed a stint as the Edna Staebler writer-in-residence at the Kitchener Public Library, working with and encouraging the local writing community. He has also been a young-writer's mentor in the University of Toronto's Masters in English in the Field of Creative Writing.
Fiction
- Twice short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Norman Bray ... and The Fearsome Particles)
- Twice long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. (Norman Bray ... and The Fearsome Particles)
- Norman Bray ... was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book (Can/Carib region)
- Cole won the 2004 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature.
Journalism
- Eight National Magazine Awards, including two gold medals
- 23 NMA short-list nominations
- a record six NMA nominations for writing in 2005
- The Rogers Publishing Award (Best Editorial/Columns)
- Back to back wins, '98/'99, in the Andersen Consulting Business Journalism Awards, Magazine category
Agent: Bruce Westwood
Westwood Creative Artists
94 Harbord Street
Toronto, ON
Canada
416-964-3302
Publicist: Emily Leeson
McClelland & Stewart
Tel: 416-598-1114 / 262
1-800-788-1074
Fax: 416-598-7764
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