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

Children's books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cohen, Tish, 1963– . Library of Congress . March 25, 2023.
  2. Bert Archer: The lucrative business of speedwriting, The Globe and Mail, May 21, 2007
  3. https://torontosun.com/2013/09/19/celebrity-spaces-tish-cohen Celebrity Spaces: Tish Cohen
  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. https://www.torontomu.ca/alumni/events/alumni-achievement-awards/recipients/tish-cohen/ Tish Cohen
  6. http://fromyourdesks.com/2010/08/16/tish-cohen/ Tish Cohen
  7. https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/tish-cohen Tish Cohen, Biography
  8. 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
  9. 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."
  10. https://d-nb.info/1016718675 Super Agoraphobietherapie
  11. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tish-cohen/town-house/ Town House
  12. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-113131-8 Town House
  13. T. F. Rigelhof: The power of art, times three, The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2007
  14. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2007/06/24/hot_summer_reading_tips.html Hot summer reading tips: Current Beach Reads
  15. https://www.thedebutanteball.com/news-flash-february-8/ News Flash, February 8, Inside Out Girl
  16. 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
  17. Vit Wagner: Summer reads: 10 books worth a read this summer, Toronto Star, June 25, 2010
  18. Cynthia MacDonald: Review: The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen, The Globe and Mail, June 11, 2010
  19. Rosemary Counter: BOOK REVIEW: Tish Cohen’s new novel an accomplished look at adoption, theglobeandmail.com, Juli 5, 2013
  20. https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/book-reviews/book-review-the-search-angel-by-tish-cohen Book Review: The Search Angel, by Tish Cohen
  21. https://tjff.com/media/tjff_2017_programme.pdf RUSSET SEASON, CANADA 2016, 9 MIN, DIRECTOR: SHEILA MCCARTH
  22. https://vimeo.com/172104941/credits Russet Season, Credits
  23. 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