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About Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (born 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist and critic.
Novels
The South (1990)
The Heather Blazing (1992)
The Story of the Night (1996)
The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
The Master (2004)
Brooklyn (2009)
The Heather Blazing (1992)
The Story of the Night (1996)
The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
The Master (2004)
Brooklyn (2009)
Collections
Plays
Novellas
Series contributed to
Finbar's Hotel (with Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor)
Finbar's Hotel (1999)
Finbar's Hotel (1999)
Anthologies edited
Soho Square: New Writing from Ireland Bk. 6 (1993)
New Writing from Ireland (1994)
Irish Short Stories (1997)
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999)
Picador New Writing: Vol 11 (2002) (with Andrew O'Hagan)
New Writing from Ireland (1994)
Irish Short Stories (1997)
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999)
Picador New Writing: Vol 11 (2002) (with Andrew O'Hagan)
Non fiction
Seeing Is Believing (1985)
Walking Along the Border (1987) (with T O'Shea)
Dubliners (1990)
Homage to Barcelona (1990)
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994)
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1994)
Trial of the Generals (1995)
The Guinness Book of Ireland (1995) (with Bernard Loughlin)
Kilfenosa Teaboy: Study of Paul Durcan (1996)
Joseph Grigely: Conversations And Portraits (1998)
The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999) (with Carmen Callil)
The Irish Famine (1999) (with Diarmaid Ferriter)
On the Edge (1999)
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives And Literature (2002)
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002)
New Ways to Kill Your Father (2006)
Walking Along the Border (1987) (with T O'Shea)
Dubliners (1990)
Homage to Barcelona (1990)
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994)
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1994)
Trial of the Generals (1995)
The Guinness Book of Ireland (1995) (with Bernard Loughlin)
Kilfenosa Teaboy: Study of Paul Durcan (1996)
Joseph Grigely: Conversations And Portraits (1998)
The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (1999) (with Carmen Callil)
The Irish Famine (1999) (with Diarmaid Ferriter)
On the Edge (1999)
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives And Literature (2002)
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002)
New Ways to Kill Your Father (2006)
Awards
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Links to other websites
| colmtoibin.com |
Colm Tóibín recommends
 Death and Nightingales (1992) Eugene McCabe "Clearly one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century." |  Monkey Man (2005) Stephen Price "A slick clever novel that makes you laugh out loud." |  Lost City Radio (2007) Daniel Alarcón "A gripping and tense political fable by one of the most exciting and ambitious writers to emerge in recent years." | |
 American Youth (2007) Phil LaMarche "Gripping and memorable." |  Cockroach (2008) Rawi Hage "[A] dark and uncompromising vision. [Cockroach] offers a version of an émigré underground which is original, raw and brave." |  Yesterday's Weather (2008) Anne Enright "Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro's. . . her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien's." | |
 John the Revelator (2009) Peter Murphy "An absolutely wonderful book... so fresh and so contemporary, so original and so disturbing and brave." |
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