Tom Rachman

Tom Rachman (born 1974)[1] is an English-Canadian novelist. His debut novel was The Imperfectionists, published in 2010 by Dial Press, an imprint of Random House.[2] The book has been published in 25 languages.

"The Imperfectionists" redirects here. For other uses, see Imperfect (disambiguation).

Rachman was born in London, England, and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Rachman studied cinema at the University of Toronto and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a journalist for the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune. He currently lives in London. His brother is the Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman and his sister Carla is an art historian; their sister Emily died of breast cancer in 2012.[3]

Works

Fiction
  • The Imperfectionists (2010), longlisted for the Giller Prize[4] and winner of the Canadian Authors Award for fiction[5]
  • The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014)
  • Basket of Deplorables (2017), shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize for best collection of stories[6]
  • The Italian Teacher (2018), shortlisted for the Costa Award for best novel[7]

Notes
  1. "The Imperfectionists - a novel by Tom Rachman - About Tom". Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. "Publishers Weekly". Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  3. "How I mourned my sister through the books she left behind". Washington Post. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  4. "Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Announces Its Longlist". www.scotiabank.com. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  5. "Winners of CAA Literary Awards Revealed - The BPC". www.thebpc.ca. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  6. "Shortlist 2018". Short Story. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  7. "Shortlist for 2018 Costa Book Awards announced". Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  • Christopher Buckley, "The Paper", The New York Times, 30 April 2010.


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