Tom Rachman

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Tom Rachman
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Rachman in 2024
Education University of Toronto (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Notable workThe Imperfectionists

Tom Rachman (born September 1974) [1] is an English-Canadian author. His debut novel was The Imperfectionists (2010), about a group of journalists working in Rome during the collapse of the traditional news media. The book became a global bestseller, published in 25 languages, [2] and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, optioned the film rights. [3]

Early life and education

Rachman was born in London, England, and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He studied cinema at the University of Toronto and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Later, in his 40s, upon realizing that he didn't want to continue writing fiction, Rachman enrolled in a master's program in behavioral science at the London School of Economics. [4]

Career

Rachman's first job in journalism was as an editor of international news at Associated Press headquarters in New York. Later, he was sent to the Rome bureau as a foreign correspondent. He moved to Paris to write fiction, and worked there at the global edition of The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune. [5] After publishing The Imperfectionists in 2010, he quit full-time journalism to write further novels while contributing non-fiction articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , The New Yorker and The Atlantic , among other publications. [6]

His novel The Italian Teacher, about the troubled son of a famous American painter, was nominated for the Costa Book Award for Novel. [7] His collection of short stories, Basket of Deplorables, set during the Trump presidency, was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. [8] Rachman ghost-wrote the nonfiction book, We Are Bellingcat , with Eliot Higgins, founder of the online-investigative collective known for exposing Russian-state criminality, such as the Skripal poisoning. [9]

Rachman currently lives in London, and is a contributing columnist to the Canadian newspaper The Globe & Mail . His writing has twice been included in the Best Canadian Essays anthologies, [10] [11] and was nominated for a 2024 National Newspaper Award. [12]

Personal life

His father was the psychologist Stanley Rachman, his brother is the Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman, and his sister Carla is an art historian; their sister Emily died of breast cancer in 2012. [13]

Awards

YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef.
2010The Imperfectionists Giller Prize —Longlisted [14]
2011 Canadian Authors Association Award FictionWon [15]
2012 International Dublin Literary Award —Longlisted
2015The Rise & Fall of Great Powers Maine Readers' Choice Award —Longlisted
2018Basket of Deplorables Edge Hill Short Story Prize —Shortlisted [16]
The Italian Teacher Costa Book Awards Novel Shortlisted [17]

Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Imperfectionists - a novel by Tom Rachman - About Tom". Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Bethune, Brian. "Tom Rachman's latest novel asks: can a great artist be a good father?". Macleans.ca. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  3. ↑ "Brad Pitt buys rights to 'The Imperfectionists'". EW.com. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  4. ↑ Rachman, Tom (7 October 2024). "I Was a Best-Selling Novelist. Then I Went Back to School". The New York Times .
  5. ↑ "The Debut". University of Toronto Magazine. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "Articles". Tom Rachman. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  7. ↑ Clark, Clare (25 December 2018). "The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman review – great art and monstrous selfishness". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  8. ↑ "Previous shortlists and winners". The Edge Hill Short Story Prize. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  9. ↑ Harding, Luke (1 February 2021). "We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins review – the reinvention of reporting for the internet age". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  10. ↑ "Best Canadian Essays 2023". Biblioasis. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Best Canadian Essays 2025". Biblioasis. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  12. ↑ "All The Globe and Mail's winners and finalists for the 2023 National Newspaper Awards". The Globe and Mail. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  13. ↑ "How I mourned my sister through the books she left behind". Washington Post. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  14. ↑ "Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Announces Its Longlist". Scotiabank. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  15. ↑ "Winners of CAA Literary Awards Revealed". The BPC. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  16. ↑ "Shortlist 2018". Edge Hill Award. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  17. ↑ "Shortlist for 2018 Costa Book Awards announced". Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 November 2018.


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