Canadian novelist and journalist
Trevor Cole
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Born
| Trevor William Cole
(
1960-02-15
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February 15, 1960
(age 64)
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Nationality
| Canadian
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Occupation(s)
| Novelist, journalist
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Trevor Cole
(born
Trevor William Cole
on February 15, 1960) is a Canadian novelist and journalist. He has published five novels; the first two,
Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life
(2004) and
The Fearsome Particles
(2006), were nominated for the
Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
and longlisted for the
International Dublin Literary Award
.
Life and career
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Trevor Cole was born on February 15, 1960, in
Toronto
,
Ontario
. His father was a theatre and television actor.
[1]
Before turning to fiction, Cole worked as a radio copywriter, magazine editor and magazine journalist. He spent 15 years at
The Globe and Mail
, working first as an editor and then, for the final two and a half years, as a senior writer for the
Report On Business Magazine
. Cole left the
Globe
in 2000.
[1]
From 2001 to 2003, he wrote a satirical column on business for
Canadian Business
.
[2]
Cole has won nine
National Magazine Awards
,
[3]
including three gold medals.
[4]
[5]
[6]
He continues to write freelance for
Toronto Life
,
Report on Business Magazine
and other publications.
[7]
In 2006, Cole began the site AuthorsAloud.com, an independent library of short, recorded audio readings by Canadian authors of literary fiction and poetry.
[8]
McClelland & Stewart
published his first three novels:
Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life
(2004),
The Fearsome Particles
(2006), and
Practical Jean
(September 2010). His third novel won the 2011
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
.
[9]
His fourth novel,
Hope Makes Love
was published by Cormorant Press in fall 2015.
[10]
In 2017, he authored
The Whisky King
, a non-fiction account of Canada's most infamous mobster
Rocco Perri
.
[11]
Personal life
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Cole lives in
Hamilton
, Ontario.
[12]
Cole's archives are held by the
William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections
at
McMaster University
.
Awards and honours
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Bibliography
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Novels
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References
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Stoffman, Judy (September 23, 2006).
"Business writer praised for fictionalizing"
.
Toronto Star
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
– via
PressReader
.
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"Weddings and your wallet"
.
The Globe and Mail
. May 25, 2007
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
.
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"Trevor Cole: Respecting the serious comic novel"
.
National Post
. November 2, 2010
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
.
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"Trevor Cole"
.
Kingston WritersFest
.
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Adams, James (June 6, 2009).
"The Walrus is golden at magazine awards"
.
The Globe and Mail
.
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"Toronto Life, Saturday Night win big at awards"
.
The Globe and Mail
. June 2, 2001.
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Cole, Trevor (April 1, 2024).
"Think powering a nuclear sub is hard? Try running a utility"
.
The Globe and Mail
.
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MacDonald, Scott (August 10, 2006).
"AuthorsAloud gives voice to authors"
.
Quill & Quire
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
.
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Villamere, Jennifer (April 29, 2015).
"Leacock Award's history of overlooking women is no laughing matter"
.
Toronto Star
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
.
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Wiersema, Robert J. (October 2, 2015).
"Review: Trevor Cole's Hope Makes Love is thoughtful and full of life"
.
The Globe and Mail
. Archived from
the original
on November 30, 2016
. Retrieved
November 30,
2016
.
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Grescoe (May 12, 2017).
"Review: Trevor Cole's The Whisky King is a superb work of historical non-fiction"
.
The Globe and Mail
. Retrieved
July 22,
2019
.
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Mowat, Justin (April 13, 2019).
"Reviving the dead and finding closure: Hamilton writer's short story longlisted for prize"
.
CBC.ca
. Retrieved
July 23,
2019
.
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