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Colm Tóibín


Ireland (b.1955)

Colm Tóibín (born 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist and critic.

Awards: Writers' Prize (2022), Costa (2009), Dublin (2006), LA Times (2004)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Mystery
 
Series
Eilis Lacey
   1. Brooklyn (2009)
   2. Long Island (2024)
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Novels
   The South (1990)
   The Heather Blazing (1992)
   The Story of the Night (1996)
   The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
   The Master (2004)
   The Testament of Mary (2012)
   Nora Webster (2014)
   House of Names (2017)
   The Magician (2021)
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Collections
   Mothers and Sons (2006)
   From the Republic of Conscience (2009) (with others)
   The Empty Family (2010)
   Vinegar Hill (poems) (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Use of Reason (2006)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Finbar's Hotel
   Finbar's Hotel (1997) (with others)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Colm Tóibín
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Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass
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The Best of Barcelona INK: Volume 1 (2012)
edited by
Ryan Chandler

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Awards
2022 The Writers' Prize for Fiction : The Magician
2009 Costa Book Award for Best Novel : Brooklyn
2006 Dublin Literary Award : The Master
2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : The Master
1993 Encore Award : The Heather Blazing

Award nominations
2022 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Magician
2015 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Nora Webster
2014 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Nora Webster
2013 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Testament of Mary
2011 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Brooklyn
2009 Booker Prize (longlist) : Brooklyn
2004 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Master
2001 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Blackwater Lightship
1999 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Blackwater Lightship


Colm Tóibín recommends
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Small Rain (2024)
Garth Greenwell
"Small Rain is a marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true. Garth Greenwell's sensibility is rich and generous-the narrator's memories are haunting, and his experiences of both illness and love are deeply affecting. You are in the room with him. This is a true achievement, written with engaged humanity and a great command of style."
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Napalm in the Heart (2024)
Pol Guasch
"Pol Guasch creates an atmosphere that is menacing and powerfully dramatic, but he is also a poet who is interested in image and tone, in texture and rhythmic variation. This mixture gives his innovative and original novel a mesmeric force, wonderfully captured in this translation."
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Whale Fall (2024)
Elizabeth O'Connor
"Whale Fall is a powerful novel, written with a calm, luminous precision, each feeling rendered with chiseled care, the drama of island life unfolding with piercing emotional accuracy"

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