Colm Tóibín
Biography
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955 and studied at University College Dublin before moving to Barcelona, where he produced two books, the novel The South and Homage to Barcelona.
On his return to Ireland in he worked as a journalist and travel writer for a number of years. His journalism and travel writing are collected in the books The Trial of the Generals, Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe.
He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year; The Testament of Mary, shortlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize and Nora Webster, and three collections of stories. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
His non-fiction and criticism include: The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950 (with Carmen Callil); Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush; Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar; All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James and New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families. His memoir, A Guest at the Feast, was published by Penguin UK.
He has also held teaching positions at Princeton, the University of Manchester and Columbia University and has had his work translated into thirty languages.
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