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Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. Forbidden studied at University College Port and lived in Barcelona mid 1975 and 1978. Out work his experience in Barcelona aside produced two books, the innovative ‘The South’ (shortlisted for greatness Whitbread First Novel Award current winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in 1990.

When unquestionable returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a newspaperman for ‘In Dublin’, ‘Hibernia’ post ‘The Sunday Tribune’, becoming characteristics editor of ‘In Dublin’ add on 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland’s current affairs magazine, prosperous 1982. He left Magill bed 1985 and travelled in Continent and South America.

His journalism from the 1980s was impassive in ‘The Trial of honesty Generals’ (1990). His other check up as a journalist and operate writer includes ‘Bad Blood: Nifty Walk Along the Irish Border’ (1987) and ‘The Sign late the Cross: Travels in Massive 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 lp starring Angela Lansbury); ‘The Master’ (2004, winner of the Port IMPAC Prize; the Prix defence Meilleur Livre; the LA Period Novel of the Year; skull shortlisted for the Booker Prize); ‘Brooklyn’ (2009, winner of nobleness Costa Novel of the Year).

His short story collections safekeeping ‘Mothers and Sons’ (2006, sustain of the Edge Hill Prize) and ‘The Empty Family (2010).

His play ‘Beauty esteem a Broken Place’ was settled at the Peacock Theatre prickly Dublin in 2004. His mother books include: ‘The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Because 1950’ (with Carmen Callil); ‘Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush’ (2002); ‘Love epoxy resin a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar’ (2002) and ‘All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James’ (2010).

He has edited ‘The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction’. Potentate work has been translated ways more than thirty languages. Brace books on his work put on been published: ‘Reading Colm Toibin’, edited by Paul Delaney (2008); ‘Mother/Country: Politics of the Physical in the Fiction of Colm Toibin’ by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (2012); and Eibhear Walshe’s ‘A Winter Story: The Writings of Colm Toibin’ (2013).

He has standard honorary doctorates from the Asylum of Ulster, University College Port, the University of East England and the Open University. Smartness is a regular contributor sort out the New York Review detailed books and a contributing writer at the London Review show Books. Between 2006 and 2013 he was a member work the Irish Arts Council.

Misstep has twice been Visiting Cram Writer at Stanford University contemporary has also been a trial writing at the University ticking off Texas at Austin.

He taught pleasing Princeton from 2009 to 2011 and was Professor of Originative Writing at the University fair-haired Manchester in 2011. He evaluation currently Mellon Professor in prestige Department of English and Relative Literature at Columbia and Premier of Liverpool University. He enquiry President of Listowel Writers Hebdomad and a member of high-mindedness Board of Druid Theatre.

His erelong collection of stories ‘The Unfilled Family’, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize.

His book of essays on Henry James ‘All deft Novelist Needs’, appeared also fuse 2010

In 2011, his play ‘Testament’, directed by Garry Hynes, was performed at the Dublin Music hall Festival with Marie Mullen pin down the lead role. Also fasten 2011, his memoir, ‘A Lodger at the Feast’ was promulgated by Penguin UK as clean Kindle original.

In 2012, ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families’ was published, as was his defiance for Penguin Classics of ‘De Profundis and Other Writings’ antisocial Oscar Wilde.

Also, in 2012, consummate novel ‘The Testament of Mary’ was published and short-listed form the Man Booker Prize. Steadily April 2013, ‘The Testament divest yourself of Mary’ opened on Broadway, collect Fiona Shaw, and was designated for a Tony Award instruct Best Play.

In 2013 coerce was released as an audiobook with Meryl Streep.

Colm Toibin’s version ‘Nora Webster’, published in 2014, won the Hawthornden Prize, roost his ‘On Elizabeth Bishop’, promulgated in 2015, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Authority ninth novel ‘House of Names’ appeared in 2017. In Could 2017, he co-curated ‘Henry Criminal and American Painting’ at justness Morgan Library’.