Thomas Trofimuk
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Thomas Trofimuk

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Hello. My name is Thomas. I’ll be your author for the next few minutes. I’m not actually here. I’m in your head…I’m probably home writing. Or drinking coffee. Or both. Never mind. Here's a bit about me: Thomas Trofimuk has published both poetry and fiction in literary magazines across the country, and on CBC radio, podcasts, CKUA, and on a radio program called The Road Home. He is a founding member of the Stroll of Poets and the Raving Poets movement in Edmonton. He was also the festival director of the ROAR Spoken Word Festival for two years. His first novel, “The 52nd Poem” won the George Bugnet Novel of the Year Award and the City of Edmonton Book Prize at the 2003 Alberta Book Awards. His second novel, the critically acclaimed “Doubting Yourself to the Bone,” was named as one of the Globe and Mail’s top 100 must-read books for 2006. A third book, “Waiting for Columbus,” was released in August 2009 in the US, Canada, the UK, Serbia, Poland, Brazil, China and Quebec (in translation). Waiting for Columbus won the City of Edmonton Book Prize, was a nominee for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was 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 book was also optioned for film. "This is All a Lie" a novel about the dangers of losing intimacy – in all its forms. The book is written backwards, at least structurally. It's self-conscious. It digresses wildly. And it spans hundreds of years of human history. “The Elephant on Karlův Bridge,” is set in the city of Prague and narrated with great panache by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an elephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the encounter. Each character is at a crossroads, and desperately seeking the wisdom they need to wrestle with profound questions—how to live, how to love, who to love, how to heal. And the elephant herself is haunted, as memories of her long-ago capture in Africa resurface. Here are a couple review excerpts: “The wandering narrative buoyed by humour while it tackles human peccadilloes and societal caprices has been with us since Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. Trofimuk brings his own skill and unique voice to this strand. Funny, candid, improvisational, historically anecdotal, sexy… it’s a heady mix.” — Glen Huser, Alberta Views “The elephant’s journey is a narrative thread from which Trofimuk spins a web of interconnected stories that involve a cast of characters who are related to one another in ways that are both arbitrary and deeply significant . . . each character 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.” —Alexandra Trnka, Quill & Quire Thomas lives (and writes) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he is actively involved with Youthwrite, a writing camp for kids.
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