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Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
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Born 30 May 1955 · Q470758
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai
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The Guardian: Brooklyn and beyond: Colm Tóibín’s best books – ranked!
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WSHU news: Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island' follows a woman grappling with her husband's betrayal
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2024· 9 entries
The Guardian: Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’
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The Guardian: Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – Jessie Buckley shines voicing the sequel to Brooklyn
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The Guardian: ‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more
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The Guardian: Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – the sequel to Brooklyn is a masterclass in subtlety and intelligence
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The Guardian: Long Island by Colm Tóibín review – happy ever after?
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The Guardian: ‘This is much more intimate’: Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on
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LAist: Colm Toibin vowed to never write a sequel. Until 'Long Island'
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Yahoo: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn sequel is the best new novel you’ll read in years
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Newsday: Colm Tóibín spotlights Lindenhurst in the '70s in his novel 'Long Island'
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: This month’s best paperbacks: Colm Tóibín, Maggie O’Farrell and more
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The Guardian: ‘There were very, very few openly queer kids in my year group’: Joe Lycett, Colm Tóibín and more on how gay life has changed
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Won Bodley Medal (2023).
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded The Writers' Prize (2022).
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2021· 2 entries
His characters are "careful in conversation, each utterance fraught with importance
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How many articles he had written, Tóibín was uncertain: "I suppose thousands might be accurate"
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2019· 2 entries
Tóibín spoke about having survived testicular cancer, which spread to multiple organs, including a lung, liver, and lymph node
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In 2019, Tóibín spoke about having survived testicular cancer, which spread to multiple organs, including a lung, liver, and lymph node.
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Runciman Award (2018).
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2017· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2017).
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KCRW: Colm Tóibín: House of Names
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the University of Liverpool (2017–2022).
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That "there are a few books of mine that I have written since then that I don't think I could have written had it not been for that encounter"
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Lectured in Athens, Georgia as the University of Georgia Chair for Global Understanding
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Tóibin objected to the wording of an Arts Council letter, which was attempting to regulate artists and force them to produce a constant supply of work if they wanted to be paid a basic income (which would also be withdra
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Hawthornden Prize (2015).
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Released On Elizabeth Bishop, a critical study that made The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 list twice
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Ahead of a referendum on marriage in Ireland, Tóibín delivered a talk titled "The Embrace of Love: Being Gay in Ireland Now" in Trinity Hall, featuring Roger Casement's diaries, the work of Oscar Wilde, John Broderick, K
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2012· 2 entries
The New Yorker: Fiction Podcast: Colm Tóibín Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Tóibín published The Testament of Mary, and in 2014 he published Nora Webster, a portrait of a recently widowed mother of four in Wexford struggling through a period of grief
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2011· 2 entries
The Times Literary Supplement published his poem "Cush Gap, 2007"
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John Naughton, of The Observer, included Tóibín in his list of Britain's three hundred "public figures leading our cultural discourse" — despite Tóibín, like Naughton, being Irish
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Joan B. Cendrós International Award (2010).
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Costa Book Awards (2009).
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Published Brooklyn, a tale of a woman emigrating to Brooklyn from Enniscorthy; characters from that novel also appear in Nora Webster, in which the young character of Donal seems to have been part-based on Colm's chil
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Published Brooklyn, which was made into a movie in 2015
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2008· 1 entry
Started thinking of and writing a story about an Irishman long settled illegally in San Francisco in the US and planning to return to Ireland, knowing that he could never return, and would never see his adult daughter
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Dublin Literary Award for The Master (2006).
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And was reviewed favourably (including by Pico Iyer in The New York Times)
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1997· 1 entry
When The New Yorker asked Tóibín to write about Seamus Heaney becoming President of Ireland, Tóibín noted that Heaney's popularity could survive the "kiss of death" of an endorsement by Conor Cruise O'Brien
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded E. M. Forster Award (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Encore Award (1993).
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1963· 1 entry
His father became ill and his mother sent her two youngest sons, Colm and his brother Niall, to stay with an aunt in County Kildare for three months so that she could take their father to Dublin for medical care; she did
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1955· 2 entries
Born 1955-05-30.
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In Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland
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1922· 1 entry
Tóibín's family favoured the Fianna Fáil political party
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