Tish Cohen

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Tish Cohen
Born (1963-12-01) December 1, 1963 (age 59)
Toronto, Canada
OccupationAuthor
Alma mater Ted Rogers School of Management (BA)
Period2007–present [1]
Website
tishcohen.com

Tish Cohen (born December 1, 1963, in Toronto) [2] is a Canadian writer.

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

Writing

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 critized 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]

Personal life

Cohen is married to a lawyer and has two children. [7]

Bibliography

Novels

Children's books

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bert Archer: The lucrative business of speedwriting, The Globe and Mail, May 21, 2007
  2. ↑ "Cohen, Tish, 1963–". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
  3. ↑ Celebrity Spaces: Tish Cohen, Toronto Sun, September 19, 2013: „until seventh grade and then moved to California for high school"
  4. ↑ Cecily Ross: Book Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue, by Tish Cohen, nationalpost.com, July 24, 2010: "Like her creation, the author was raised in California by a single father."
  5. ↑ Tish Cohen, .torontomu.ca
  6. ↑ Tish Cohen, fromyourdesks.com, August 16, 2010
  7. 1 2 3 Kathryn Kates: A flair for fiction, real-life decor: Tish Cohen will soon see her novel Town House made into a movie by a production company headed by Ridley Scott, director of films such as Gladiator , Alien and Blade Runner., Toronto Star, September 1, 2007
  8. ↑ Tish Cohen, Biography, bookreporter.com
  9. ↑ Entertainment: Ondaatje among Canadians vying for Commonwealth Writers' Prize, CBC.ca, Februar 14, 2008
  10. ↑ Vit Wagner: Author ready to bring her book to the big screen: Tish Cohen has had loads of time to imagine a dream cast for the movie version of her popular debut novel Town House., Toronto Star, August 19, 2007: "Fox 2000 optioned the book back in 2005, even before a publisher picked it up."
  11. ↑ Super Agoraphobietherapie, d-nb.info ( ISBN   978-3-641-02871-8)
  12. ↑ Town House, kirkusreviews.com, March 1, 2007, published online May 20, 2010
  13. ↑ Town House, Publishers Weekly, May 2007
  14. ↑ T. F. Rigelhof: The power of art, times three, The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2007
  15. ↑ Hot summer reading tips: Current Beach Reads, Toronto Star, Juni 24, 2007
  16. ↑ News Flash, February 8, Inside Out Girl, thedebutanteball.com, February 8, 2009
  17. ↑ Cat Parker Allison Burnett Set for Inside Out Girl: Adapting Tish Cohen's novel centered on a romance between single parents., movieweb.com, August 26, 2009
  18. ↑ Vit Wagner: Summer reads: 10 books worth a read this summer, Toronto Star, June 25, 2010
  19. ↑ Cynthia MacDonald: Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen, The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2010
  20. ↑ Rosemary Counter: BOOK REVIEW: Tish Cohen’s new novel an accomplished look at adoption, theglobeandmail.com, Juli 5, 2013
  21. ↑ Book Review: The Search Angel, by Tish Cohen, nationalpost.com, June 21, 2013
  22. ↑ RUSSET SEASON, CANADA 2016, 9 MIN, DIRECTOR: SHEILA MCCARTH. PDF, p. 46 at tjff.com
  23. ↑ Russet Season, Credits, Vimeo
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