Cathal Kelly

Cathal Kelly is a Canadian writer. He won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2019 for his childhood memoir Boy Wonders.[1]

A sports columnist for The Globe and Mail,[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]

References
  1. "Cathal Kelly wins Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
  2. "Cathal Kelly's memoir Boy Wonders wins $15K Leacock Medal for humour writing". CBC Books, May 6, 2019.
  3. Gerald Flood, "Nostalgic memoir a marvel". Winnipeg Free Press, November 10, 2018.
  4. "Prize Fighters: Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches". Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 2015.
  5. "Racism back on soccer's front burner". Toronto Star, February 3, 2005.


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