Draft:Thomas Trofimuk
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Thomas Trofimuk (born April 15) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, and musician. He is a founding member of the Stroll of Poets (Edmonton) and the Raving Poets movement (also a member of the Raving Poets Band). He has been active with YouthWrite, a writing camp for children, a non-profit and charitable society for 30 years, and is currently (2026) President of the YouthWrite Society of Canada. His six novels can be characterized by lyrical prose, unconventional narratives, and sometimes whimsical explorations of the human condition.
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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 six 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. A sixth novel, Saudade, is set to be published in April 2026. A first book of riffs/micro-fictions/poetic prose/poems is set to be published by the University of Calgary.
Writing
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 six 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. A sixth novel, Saudade, is set to be published (NeWest Press) in April 2026. A first book of riffs/micro-fictions/poetic prose/poems is set to be published by the University of Calgary.
Bibliography
Poems and short stories
Published in literary journals and anthologies.
Novels
The 52nd Poem
- 2002, Great Plains Publications
Doubting Yourself to the Bone
- 2006, Cormorant Books
Waiting for Columbus
- 2009, McClelland and Stewart (CANADA)
- 2009, Knopf-Doubleday (US)
- 2010, Picador (UK)
- In translation: Serbia, Brazil, Poland, China, (the Province of Quebec – 2012)
- Audio Book – Blackstone Audiobooks
- Film rights optioned
This is All a Lie
- 2017, Enfield & Wizenty – an imprint of Great Plains Publications
The Elephant on Karlův Bridge
- August 2022, Thistledown Press
- Audio Book – Radiant Press
Saudade
- 2026, NeWest Press
Sorbets
- pending, University of Calgary Press (Brave & Brilliant imprint)
Awards
- Winner of Alberta Culture’s playwriting competition for one-act plays, 1992; (for The End; the play)
- Winner, The Manuela Dias Best Book Design Award, The 2003 Manitoba Book Awards, for The 52nd Poem
- Winner, The 2003 City of Edmonton Book Prize, for The 52nd Poem
- Winner, Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, 2003 Alberta Literary Awards, for The 52nd Poem
- CBC Alberta Anthology “Centennial edition” short-fiction (professional category) winner, 2005
- Doubting Yourself to the Bone, named to the Globe & Mail top 100 must read books of 2006
- Winner, The 2010 City of Edmonton Book Prize, for Waiting for Columbus
- Shortlisted – Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, 2010 Alberta Literary Awards, for Waiting for Columbus
- Nominee 2011 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Waiting for Columbus
- Waiting for Columbus was picked as a Richard and Judy Book Club pick (in the UK) for fall 2010 and was subsequently picked as one of Richard and Judy’s 100 Books of the past decade.