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Trevor Cole


An editor and writer for more than 30 years, Trevor Cole has won nine National Magazine Awards, including three gold medals. As an author of four novels, his books have twice been short-listed for the Governor Generals Award for Fiction, twice long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and short-listed for the Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize. His third novel, Practical Jean, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Trevor's latest book, published by HarperCollins Canada, is The Whisky King, an epic non-fiction historical narrative that was nominated for the Speakers Book Award and the Heritage Toronto Award and won the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Canada's best nonfiction crime book. 

Trevor Cole