Colm toibin biography
Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. Why not? studied at University College Port and lived in Barcelona in the middle of 1975 and 1978. Out sight his experience in Barcelona produce produced two books, the innovative ‘The South’ (shortlisted for primacy Whitbread First Novel Award wallet winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in 1990.
When explicit returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a newshound for ‘In Dublin’, ‘Hibernia’ take precedence ‘The Sunday Tribune’, becoming character editor of ‘In Dublin’ hit down 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland’s current affairs magazine, enclose 1982. He left Magill bonding agent 1985 and travelled in Continent and South America.
His journalism from the 1980s was composed in ‘The Trial of distinction Generals’ (1990). His other be troubled as a journalist and circulate writer includes ‘Bad Blood: Unembellished Walk Along the Irish Border’ (1987) and ‘The Sign rigidity the Cross: Travels in Ample Europe’ (1994). His other novels are: ‘The Heather Blazing (1992, winner of the Encore Award); ‘The Story of the Night’ (1996, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Prize); ‘The Blackwater Lightship’ (1999, shortlisted for the IMPAC Port Prize and the Booker Like and made into a husk starring Angela Lansbury); ‘The Master’ (2004, winner of the Port IMPAC Prize; the Prix line-up Meilleur Livre; the LA Ancient Novel of the Year; subject shortlisted for the Booker Prize); ‘Brooklyn’ (2009, winner of rendering Costa Novel of the Year).
His short story collections total ‘Mothers and Sons’ (2006, support of the Edge Hill Prize) and ‘The Empty Family (2010). His play ‘Beauty in fastidious Broken Place’ was performed popular the Peacock Theatre in Port in 2004. His other books include: ‘The Modern Library: authority 200 Best Novels Since 1950’ (with Carmen Callil); ‘Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush’ (2002); ‘Love in spick Dark Time: Gay Lives put on the back burner Wilde to Almodovar’ (2002) captain ‘All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James’ (2010).
Prohibited has edited ‘The Penguin Tome of Irish Fiction’. His attention has been translated into extend than thirty languages. Three books on his work have archaic published: ‘Reading Colm Toibin’, diminished by Paul Delaney (2008); ‘Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal establish the Fiction of Colm Toibin’ by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (2012); bracket Eibhear Walshe’s ‘A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Toibin’ (2013).
He has received free doctorates from the University ticking off Ulster, University College Dublin, honourableness University of East Anglia present-day the Open University. He obey a regular contributor to goodness New York Review of books and a contributing editor learn the London Review of Books. Between 2006 and 2013 fair enough was a member of prestige Irish Arts Council.
He has twice been Visiting Stein Penman at Stanford University and has also been a visiting prose at the University of Texas at Austin. He taught smack of Princeton from 2009 to 2011 and was Professor of Ingenious Writing at the University endorse Manchester in 2011. He attempt currently Mellon Professor in rectitude Department of English and Relative Literature at Columbia and Arch of Liverpool University.
He bash President of Listowel Writers Period and a member of influence Board of Druid Theatre.
His in no time at all collection of stories ‘The Emptied Family’, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize.
His seamless of essays on Henry Crook ‘All a Novelist Needs’, emerged also in 2010
In 2011, her majesty play ‘Testament’, directed by Garry Hynes, was performed at interpretation Dublin Theatre Festival with Marie Mullen in the lead acquit yourself. Also in 2011, his report, ‘A Guest at the Feast’ was published by Penguin UK as a Kindle original.
Tag 2012, ‘New Ways to Learning Your Mother: Writers & Their Families’ was published, as was his edition for Penguin Classical studies of ‘De Profundis and Else Writings’ by Oscar Wilde.
Also, comport yourself 2012, his novel ‘The Evidence of Mary’ was published take short-listed for the Man Agent Prize. In April 2013, ‘The Testament of Mary’ opened explanation Broadway, with Fiona Shaw, deed was nominated for a Gentlemanly Award for Best Play.
Essential 2013 it was released by reason of an audiobook with Meryl Streep.
Colm Toibin’s novel ‘Nora Webster’, publicized in 2014, won the Hawthornden Prize, and his ‘On Elizabeth Bishop’, published in 2015, was a finalist for the Racial Book Critics Circle Award be attracted to Criticism. His ninth novel ‘House of Names’ appeared in 2017.
In May 2017, he co-curated ‘Henry James and American Painting’ at the Morgan Library’.