Biography
Colm Tóibín ( KUL-əm toh-BEEN, Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) 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. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bounty of thousands of euro as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. Nora Webster won the Hawthornden Prize, whilst The Magician (a fictionalised version of the life of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the biennial "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021.
He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017. He is now Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan.
Filmography
all 11
Movies 9
Writer 6
self 5
TV Shows 2
Tommy Tiernan's Epic West (2022)
Jack B. Yeats: The Man who Painted Ireland (2021)
The Capote Tapes (2021)
Pale Sister (2021)
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street (2017)
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room (2017)
Return to Montauk (2017)
Maria converses (2016)
El testament de Rosa (2016)
Brooklyn (2015)
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1955-05-30 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceEnniscorthy, Republic of Ireland
ReligionCatholicism
CitizenshipsIreland
ResidencesCounty Wexford, Republic of Ireland
AwardsLambda Literary Award, Hawthornden Prize, International Dublin Literary Award, Costa Book Awards, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Joan B. Cendrós International Award, Folio Prize, Irish PEN Award, Encore Award, E. M. Forster Award, Bodley Medal, Runciman Award
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