Colm Toibin

Chancellor of the University of Liverpool

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Gender	Male
Age	68
Date of birth	May 30,1955
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Born	Enniscorthy
	Ireland
Influenced by	Ernest Hemingway
	Henry James
	Elizabeth Bishop
	D. H. Lawrence
	Frank O'Connor
	Jane Austen
	James Baldwin
Job	Teacher
	Author
	Professor
	Journalist
	Poet
	Critic
	Playwright
	Screenwriter
	Novelist
	Essayist
Education	St Peter's College, Wexford
	University College Dublin
	B.A., D.Litt
Movies/Shows	Return to Montauk
	Brooklyn
	The Blackwater Lightship
Awards	Booker Prize
	Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
	Costa Novel Award
	Encore Award
	E. M. Forster Award
	Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics
	Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
	Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award
	International Dublin Literary Award
Official site	colmtoibin.com
Alma mater	University College Dublin
Genres	Essay
	Novel
	Short Story
	Play
	Poem
Parents	Michael Tóibín
	Bríd Tóibín
Influences	Henry James
	Ernest Hemingway
	Jane Austen
Nominations	International Dublin Literary Award
	Booker Prize
Plays	The Testament of Mary
Languag	Hiberno-English
Date of Reg.	2019-10-23 03:55:26
Date of Upd.	2023-11-10 07:17:27
ID	1495767

Nora Webster
The Blackwater Lightship
House of Names
The Heather Blazing
The Story of the Night
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Mothers and Sons
The Empty Family
The South
Homage to Barcelona
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
The Sign of the Cross
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
A Guest at the Feast: A Memoir
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James
The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism, 1980-1990
Beauty in a broken place
The Irish Famine
Walking Along the Border
Dubliners
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English
The Use of Reason
On Elizabeth Bishop
Henry James and American Painting
A Long Winter
Martyrs and metaphors
A Brief Guide to the Modern Library
The Colour of Shadows: From the Empty Family
Sean Scully: Walls of Aran
Silence
Mares i fills
Das Feuerschiff von Blackwater
The World Voices Book of Prayer and Meditation
Edmund de Waal
Le Bâteau phare de Blackwater
Callum Innes: I'll Close My Eyes
Brooklyn
The Magician
The Master
The Testament of Mary

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Colm Toibin Life story

Colm Tóibín FRSL 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.