Dean Cooke, LITERARY AGENT
Dean has worked in publishing for over forty years, as an agent and publisher. In 1992 he founded LivingstonCooke, which became The Cooke Agency, and later merged with The Harding Agency and The McDermid Agency to become CookeMcDermid. Dean has represented many of Canada’s best-selling and award-winning authors, including winners of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General Awards for fiction and non-fiction, the National Business Book Award, the IMPAC, and other national and international awards. His clients’ works are published around the world in many languages. Dean has lectured as an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and other venues in Canada and the United States on a wide range of publishing-related subjects. He spearheaded the creation of the HarperCollinsPublishersLtd and University of British Columbia Prize for Best New Fiction. In October 2014, he received the Ivy Award in recognition of his significant contributions to Canadian publishing.
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