Name Trevor Cole Role Novelist | Parents Hilda Neeb, Bill Cole | |
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Nominations Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books Practical Jean, Norman Bray - in the Performa, The Fearsome Particles, Tribb's Troubles | ||
Trevor Cole (born Trevor William Cole on February 15, 1960) is a Canadian novelist and journalist. He’s published four 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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Life and career
Trevor Cole was born on February 15, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario. His father was a theatre and television actor.
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. Beginning in 2001, he wrote a satirical column on business for two years for Canadian Business.
Cole has won nine National Magazine Awards, including three gold medals. He continues to write freelance for Toronto Life, Report on Business Magazine and other publications.
In 2006, Cole began the site AuthorsAloud.com, "an independent library of short, recorded audio readings by Canadian authors of literary fiction and poetry." iTunes now features an AuthorsAloud podcast, which Cole hosts.
McClelland & Stewart published his first three novels: Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life was published in 2004, The Fearsome Particles was published in 2006, and Practical Jean, Cole’s third novel, was published in September 2010. It won the 2011 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
His fourth novel, Hope Makes Love was published by Cormorant Press in fall 2015.
Cole lives in Hamilton, Ontario.