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Colm Toibin

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Gender Male
Age 69
Date of birth May 30,1955
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Enniscorthy
Ireland
Influenced by Ernest Hemingway
Henry James
Elizabeth Bishop
D. H. Lawrence
Frank O'Connor
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Job Teacher
Author
Professor
Journalist
Poet
Critic
Playwright
Screenwriter
Novelist
Essayist
Education St Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin
B.A., D.Litt
Movies/Shows Return to Montauk
Brooklyn
The Blackwater Lightship
Awards Booker Prize
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Costa Novel Award
Encore Award
E. M. Forster Award
Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award
International Dublin Literary Award
Official site colmtoibin.com
Alma mater University College Dublin
GenresEssay
Novel
Short Story
Play
Poem
Parents Michael Tóibín
Bríd Tóibín
Influences Henry James
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
Nominations International Dublin Literary Award
Booker Prize
Plays The Testament of Mary
LanguagHiberno-English
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Date of Upd.
ID1495767

Nora Webster
The Blackwater Lightship
House of Names
The Heather Blazing
The Story of the Night
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Mothers and Sons
The Empty Family
The South
Homage to Barcelona
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
The Sign of the Cross
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
A Guest at the Feast: A Memoir
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James
The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism, 1980-1990
Beauty in a broken place
The Irish Famine
Walking Along the Border
Dubliners
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English
The Use of Reason
On Elizabeth Bishop
Henry James and American Painting
A Long Winter
Martyrs and metaphors
A Brief Guide to the Modern Library
The Colour of Shadows: From the Empty Family
Sean Scully: Walls of Aran
Silence
Mares i fills
Das Feuerschiff von Blackwater
The World Voices Book of Prayer and Meditation
Edmund de Waal
Le Bâteau phare de Blackwater
Callum Innes: I'll Close My Eyes
Brooklyn
The Magician
The Master
The Testament of Mary
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Colm Tóibín FRSL is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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