Cathal Kelly is a Canadian novelist and sports columnist for The Globe and Mail.[1] He won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2019 for his childhood memoir Boy Wonders.[2]
Kelly was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to immigrant parents from Ireland.[3] He studied political science at the University of Toronto, and journalism at Ryerson University, before joining the Toronto Star as a copy editor in the early 2000s.[4] He began writing for the paper as a beat reporter covering the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as writing some automobile and travel journalism, before becoming a full-time sports columnist in 2005.[5] He transferred to The Globe and Mail in 2014.[4]
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- ^ "Cathal Kelly's memoir Boy Wonders wins $15K Leacock Medal for humour writing". CBC Books, May 6, 2019.
- ^ "Cathal Kelly wins Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
- ^ Gerald Flood, "Nostalgic memoir a marvel". Winnipeg Free Press, November 10, 2018.
- ^ a b "Prize Fighters: Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches". Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 2015.
- ^ "Racism back on soccer's front burner". Toronto Star, February 3, 2005.
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