writer, gardener, failed Buddhist
T h o m a s T r o f i m u k
"Remember, story-tellers, just to attempt
the impossible is victory enough."
--Robert Kroetsch
Books
Coming soon:
The new novel
The Saudade, from NeWest Press.
author info
Thomas Trofimuk writes poetry, micro-fictions, plays and novels. He’s published and reviewed in literary magazines across Canada, and on CBC radio. He has five novels out in the world: The 52nd Poem, Doubting Yourself to the Bone, This is All a Lie, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge (in Canada, Serbia and China), and Waiting for Columbus (in Canada, the US, the UK, Serbia, Poland, Brazil, China and Quebec (in translation). Waiting for Columbus won a fancy-pants literary award (the City of Edmonton Book Prize), and was nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.It was also a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for fall 2010 and was picked as one of Richard and Judy’s 100 Books of the Decade. The Columbus novel has been optioned for film. He’s a long-time teacher at YouthWrite, a fantastic writing camp for kids. Thomas lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife, several neighbourhood cats that visit, a healthy fear of Death, and far too many books.
in the press
Each character (in The Elephant on Karluv Bridge) is mired in loss and emotional turmoil and their unique stories of suffering are in themselves a worthwhile exploration of loneliness, desire, and the creation of meaning in a chaotic world.
-- Quill & Quire
What a wonderful, mad mongrel of a book — part mystery, part passionate romance, part postmodern historical romp in the spirit of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and Douglas Glover's Elle…. The hero of Thomas Trofimuk's Waiting for Columbus is, like all storytellers, a seducer — and so is the author himself. His compassion, intelligence, shrewd humor, and taste in wine make for an irresistible read.
-- Steven Heighton, author of Afterlands
(Waiting for Columbus) is one of those rare gems that works on a number of levels and makes ingenious use of eras shadowed by anxiety, uncertainty and tectonic, historic change — times like ours. Thomas Trofimuk's novel throws you for a loop, pulls you back, twists you around and opens your eyes to the world not just as it was, but as we find it.
-- The Globe & Mail
get in touch
For media inquiries, please reach out to Hilary McMahon, Westwood Creative Artists:
Tel: 416.964.3302 | wca_office@wcaltd.com
Connect with me:
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