Tish Cohen Explained
Tish Cohen |
Birth Date: | 1 December 1963 |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Canada |
Occupation: | Author |
Period: | 2007–present |
Alma Mater: | Ted Rogers School of Management (BA) |
Tish Cohen (born December 1, 1963, in Toronto)[1] is a Canadian novelist.
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).[2] [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]
Writing
Cohen is well known for her fast pace writing. 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).[7] [8] 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.[9] It was also translated into German and Italien and published as Super Agoraphobietherapie in Germany at Luchterhand Literaturverlag in 2009.[10] Kirkus Reviews attributed to the novel „a constellation of characters whose idiosyncrasies make the family of Little Miss Sunshine look like Ozzie and Harriet.".[11] Publishers Weekly criticized the plot as "formulaic", but also described the novel as "terrifically written".[12] 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".[13] 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."[14]
The novel Inside Out Girl was a Globe and Mail bestseller in 2009.[15] Allison Burnett signed an agreement to adapt the novel Inside Out Girl into a movie in August 2009.[16]
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.[17] Cynthia MacDonald reviewed this novel for The Globe and Mail in June 2010 and considered it as "the summer's first terrific beach read".[18]
For Tish Cohen's novel "The Search Angel", whose topic is adoption,[19] the National Post attributed a "story telling talent" to the author in June 2013.[20]
Cohen and Barbara Fogler wrote the screenplay for Sheila McCarthys short film Russet Season which premiered at Toronto Jewish Film Festival in 2017.[21] [22]
Personal life
Cohen is married to a lawyer and has two children.[23]
Bibliography
Novels
- 2007: Town House, Harper Perennial, New York,
- 2009: Tish Cohen: Super Agoraphobietherapie, 2009, Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, (translated into German by Martin Ruben Becker)
- 2008: Inside Out Girl, Harper Perennial, New York,
- 2010: The Truth About Delilah Blue, Harper Perennial, New York,
- 2013: The Search Angel, HarperCollins, New York,
- 2019: The Summer We Lost Her aka Little Green, Gallery Books, New York,
Children's books
- 2007: The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama, Dutton Children's Books,
- 2008: The One and Only Zoë Lama, Dutton Children's Books,
- 2009: Little Black Lies, Egmont, New York,
- 2011: Switch, Egmont, New York,
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Cohen, Tish, 1963– . Library of Congress . March 25, 2023.
- Bert Archer: The lucrative business of speedwriting, The Globe and Mail, May 21, 2007
- https://torontosun.com/2013/09/19/celebrity-spaces-tish-cohen Celebrity Spaces: Tish Cohen
- 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."
- https://www.torontomu.ca/alumni/events/alumni-achievement-awards/recipients/tish-cohen/ Tish Cohen
- http://fromyourdesks.com/2010/08/16/tish-cohen/ Tish Cohen
- https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/tish-cohen Tish Cohen, Biography
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ondaatje-among-canadians-vying-for-commonwealth-writers-prize-1.755905 Entertainment: Ondaatje among Canadians vying for Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- 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."
- https://d-nb.info/1016718675 Super Agoraphobietherapie
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tish-cohen/town-house/ Town House
- https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-113131-8 Town House
- T. F. Rigelhof: The power of art, times three, The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2007
- https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2007/06/24/hot_summer_reading_tips.html Hot summer reading tips: Current Beach Reads
- https://www.thedebutanteball.com/news-flash-february-8/ News Flash, February 8, Inside Out Girl
- 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
- Vit Wagner: Summer reads: 10 books worth a read this summer, Toronto Star, June 25, 2010
- Cynthia MacDonald: Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen, The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2010
- Rosemary Counter: BOOK REVIEW: Tish Cohen’s new novel an accomplished look at adoption, theglobeandmail.com, Juli 5, 2013
- https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/book-reviews/book-review-the-search-angel-by-tish-cohen Book Review: The Search Angel, by Tish Cohen
- https://tjff.com/media/tjff_2017_programme.pdf RUSSET SEASON, CANADA 2016, 9 MIN, DIRECTOR: SHEILA MCCARTH
- https://vimeo.com/172104941/credits Russet Season, Credits
- 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