Colm Tóibín
‘Colm is one of our finest writers with a recognised international reputation,’ Prof Kevin Rafter, chair of the Arts Council, said. ‘His novels and short stories are not just acclaimed by critics but they are also loved by readers. I know he will bring his tremendous intellect, and endless energy and empathy, to the role of Laureate for Irish Fiction.‘
— The Irish Times, January 2022
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in 1955. He has worked as a journalist and travelled widely. He has published collections of short stories, books of criticism and non-fiction, and eleven novels, three of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. They include The Master (Winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize), Brooklyn, Nora Webster, The Magician, House of Names and Long Island. He is Mellon Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
In 2021 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature and, from 2022 to 2025, served as Laureate for Irish Fiction. Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings will be published in September 2025.
Previous plays are Beauty in a Broken Place and Testament. Pale Sister was his first Gallery book.
Colm Tóibín titles
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Ship in Full Sail
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Pale Sister
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