Cole, Trevor
Biography
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.
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Published Work
2010. Practical Jean. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (Fiction)
2006. The fearsome particles. Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart (Fiction)
2004. Norman Bray in the performance of his life. Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart (Fiction)
