Colm Tóibín
Autor(a) de Brooklyn
About the Author
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English. In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an mostrar mais M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill. His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books. He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2015 he made The New Zealand High Profile Titles List with All The Light We Cannot See. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Séries
Obras de Colm Tóibín
One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) (2022) 13 cópias
Donal Webster - short story 1 exemplar(es)
Mortifications [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Ο Μάγος 1 exemplar(es)
Čarobnjak 1 exemplar(es)
The story of the night 1 exemplar(es)
Blue: a personal selection 1 exemplar(es)
The Street [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Uncorrected Excerpts 2009 1 exemplar(es)
What Catalans Want 1 exemplar(es)
'Among the Flutterers' in LRB 32/16, 19 August 2010 [review of Angelo Quattrocchi's 'The Pope is not Gay'] 1 exemplar(es)
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? 1 exemplar(es)
La casa dei nomi 1 exemplar(es)
"Taking my time". In: A New Ireland in Brazil - Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran 1 exemplar(es)
The Master/ The Blackwater Lightship / The Heather Blazing / Brooklyn / The South / The Story of the Night (2010) — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
FARI LUNDRUES I BLLEKUOTERIT 1 exemplar(es)
Sleep 1 exemplar(es)
Ο Μάγος 1 exemplar(es)
'Gay Night and Day' in NYRB 59/3, 23 February 2012 [review of Edmund White's 'Jack Holmes and His Friend'] 1 exemplar(es)
The Mystery of Inis Meáin (The Guardian 12.5.2007) 1 exemplar(es)
21 [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
'A Man of No Mind' in LRB 34/17, 13 September 2012 [review of Vargas Llosa's 'The Dream of the Celt'] 1 exemplar(es)
'A Great American Visionary' in NYRB 55/6, 17 April 2008 [review of 'Hart Crane: complete poems and selected letters'] 1 exemplar(es)
'Roaming the Greenwood' in LRB 21/2, 21 Jan 1999 [review of Gregory Woods' 'A History of Gay Literature: the male… 1 exemplar(es)
The Irish times book of favourite Irish poems 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contribuinte — 301 cópias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuinte — 116 cópias
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contribuinte — 53 cópias
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1955-05-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
- Local de nascimento
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain - Educação
- Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975) - Ocupação
- magazine editor
journalist
novelist
critic
commentator - Organizações
- Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014) - Premiações
- Costa Novel Award 2009
- Pequena biografia
- Irish writer Colm Tóibín, born in 1955, worked as a journalist before achieving fame as a fiction writer. His works often depict Irish society and explore themes of creativity and homosexuality.
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, July 2020: The Master em 1001 Books to read before you die (Outubro 2020)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award em The Prizes (Setembro 2017)
2013 Booker longlist: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín em Booker Prize (Março 2014)
Resenhas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Unmarried women (1)
Audio Books (1)
Irish writers (6)
Unread books (1)
2000s decade (1)
Europe (1)
Tour of Ireland (2)
to get (1)
Booker Prize (4)
Short and Sweet (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
2015 UpROOTed (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 79
- Also by
- 41
- Membros
- 20,133
- Popularidade
- #1,076
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 839
- ISBNs
- 605
- Idiomas
- 22
- Favorito
- 65
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