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| Born | Toronto, Canada |
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| Alma mater | Ted Rogers School of Management (BA) |
| Period | 2007–present [1] |
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Tish Cohen [2] is a Canadian novelist.
Born in Toronto, Cohen spent most of her childhood in Montreal, but spent her teenage years with her father beginning in the 7th grade at a high school in Orange County, California (The OC). [1] [3] [4]
Tish Cohen finished her studies at the Ted Rogers School of Management of Toronto Metropolitan University in 1988. [5] Before her writing career, Cohen worked as media buyer at an ad agency, art gallery manager, illustrator, proofreader, decorative painter and editor. [6] [7]
Cohen is well known for her fast pace writing. [1] Her children's book The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama became a bestseller in Canada in 2007. Her novel Town house was a 2008 finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize' Best First Book Award (Canada and Caribbean region). [8] [9] The right for making her novel Town House into a movie were bought by Ridley Scott's fim production company and optioned by Fox 2000 in 2005. [7] [10] It was also translated into German and Italien and published as Super Agoraphobietherapie in Germany at Luchterhand Literaturverlag in 2009. [11] Kirkus Reviews attributed to the novel „a constellation of characters whose idiosyncrasies make the family of Little Miss Sunshine look like Ozzie and Harriet.". [12] Publishers Weekly criticized the plot as "formulaic", but also described the novel as "terrifically written". [13] The Globe and Mail reviewed the novel as follows: "There's more than quirky charm and endearing oddness in the characters Cohen creates." It compared it with Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street: "Cohen's Lucie a North American near-relative of McCall Smith's Bertie" and praised this as an "incredible achievement in itself". [14] The Toronto Star recommend the novel as one of four current canlit books for hot summer and described it as "Comic novel about an agoraphobe whose life begins to unravel." [15]
The novel Inside Out Girl was a Globe and Mail bestseller in 2009. [16] Allison Burnett signed an agreement to adapt the novel Inside Out Girl into a movie in August 2009. [17]
The novel The Truth About Delilah Blue, which deals with a young woman with an old father with Alzheimer's disease and an absent mother, was recommended as one of 10 summer reads by Vit Wagner of Toronto Star in 2010. [18] Cynthia MacDonald reviewed this novel for The Globe and Mail in June 2010 and considered it as "the summer's first terrific beach read". [19]
For Tish Cohen's novel "The Search Angel", whose topic is adoption, [20] the National Post attributed a "story telling talent" to the author in June 2013. [21]
Cohen and Barbara Fogler wrote the screenplay for Sheila McCarthys short film Russet Season which premiered at Toronto Jewish Film Festival in 2017. [22] [23]
Cohen is married to a lawyer and has two children. [7]
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