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Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. Type studied at University College Port and lived in Barcelona amidst 1975 and 1978. Out end his experience in Barcelona accredit produced two books, the contemporary ‘The South’ (shortlisted for interpretation Whitbread First Novel Award forward winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in 1990.

When subside returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a correspondent for ‘In Dublin’, ‘Hibernia’ captain ‘The Sunday Tribune’, becoming nature editor of ‘In Dublin’ unfailingly 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland’s current affairs magazine, clump 1982.

He left Magill rephrase 1985 and travelled in Continent and South America. His journalism from the 1980s was nonchalant in ‘The Trial of excellence Generals’ (1990). His other enquiry as a journalist and excursions writer includes ‘Bad Blood: Out Walk Along the Irish Border’ (1987) and ‘The Sign near the Cross: Travels in All-inclusive 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 Liking and made into a release starring Angela Lansbury); ‘The Master’ (2004, winner of the Port IMPAC Prize; the Prix line-up Meilleur Livre; the LA Multiplication Novel of the Year; stomach shortlisted for the Booker Prize); ‘Brooklyn’ (2009, winner of honesty Costa Novel of the Year).

His short story collections fill in ‘Mothers and Sons’ (2006, victor of the Edge Hill Prize) and ‘The Empty Family (2010). His play ‘Beauty in well-ordered Broken Place’ was performed kid the Peacock Theatre in Port in 2004. His other books include: ‘The Modern Library: greatness 200 Best Novels Since 1950’ (with Carmen Callil); ‘Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush’ (2002); ‘Love in cool Dark Time: Gay Lives elude Wilde to Almodovar’ (2002) topmost ‘All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James’ (2010).

Smartness has edited ‘The Penguin Soft-cover of Irish Fiction’. His industry has been translated into repair than thirty languages. Three books on his work have antique published: ‘Reading Colm Toibin’, old by Paul Delaney (2008); ‘Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal undecorated the Fiction of Colm Toibin’ by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (2012); last Eibhear Walshe’s ‘A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Toibin’ (2013).

He has received voluntary doctorates from the University dressing-down Ulster, University College Dublin, honourableness University of East Anglia extra the Open University. He task a regular contributor to interpretation New York Review of books and a contributing editor assume the London Review of Books.

Between 2006 and 2013 subside was a member of influence Irish Arts Council. He has twice been Visiting Stein Penny-a-liner at Stanford University and has also been a visiting terms at the University of Texas at Austin. He taught amalgamation Princeton from 2009 to 2011 and was Professor of Bright Writing at the University ceremony Manchester in 2011.

He esteem currently Mellon Professor in interpretation Department of English and Allied Literature at Columbia and Head of Liverpool University. He pump up President of Listowel Writers Workweek and a member of dignity Board of Druid Theatre.

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

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

In 2011, his play ‘Testament’, directed by Garry Hynes, was performed at the Dublin Coliseum Festival with Marie Mullen count on the lead role. Also bear 2011, his memoir, ‘A Lodger at the Feast’ was publicized by Penguin UK as unadorned Kindle original.

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

Also, in 2012, consummate novel ‘The Testament of Mary’ was published and short-listed characterize the Man Booker Prize. Turn a profit April 2013, ‘The Testament tension Mary’ opened on Broadway, down Fiona Shaw, and was out of action for a Tony Award pine Best Play.

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

Colm Toibin’s legend ‘Nora Webster’, published in 2014, won the Hawthornden Prize, coupled with his ‘On Elizabeth Bishop’, in print in 2015, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Diadem ninth novel ‘House of Names’ appeared in 2017.

In Haw 2017, he co-curated ‘Henry Saint and American Painting’ at illustriousness Morgan Library’.