Colm Tóibín
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Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English. In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an mehr anzeigen M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill. His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books. He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2015 he made The New Zealand High Profile Titles List with All The Light We Cannot See. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
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One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) (2022) 12 Exemplare
In Lovely Blueness: adventures in troubled light 2 Exemplare
Mortifications [short story] 1 Exemplar
Donal Webster - short story 1 Exemplar
The Master/ The Blackwater Lightship / The Heather Blazing / Brooklyn / The South / The Story of the Night (2010) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
The story of the night 1 Exemplar
Čarobnjak 1 Exemplar
Ο Μάγος 1 Exemplar
21 [short story] 1 Exemplar
Long Island 1 Exemplar
The Street [short story] 1 Exemplar
Uncorrected Excerpts 2009 1 Exemplar
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? 1 Exemplar
"Taking my time". In: A New Ireland in Brazil - Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran 1 Exemplar
What Catalans Want 1 Exemplar
Blue: a personal selection 1 Exemplar
Sleep 1 Exemplar
FARI LUNDRUES I BLLEKUOTERIT 1 Exemplar
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography (2007) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 1,267 Exemplare
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Mitwirkender — 300 Exemplare
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Mitwirkender — 116 Exemplare
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Mitwirkender — 62 Exemplare
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Mitwirkender — 53 Exemplare
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1955-05-30
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Irland
- Geburtsort
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Irland
- Wohnorte
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Irland
Dublin, Irland
Barcelona, Spanien - Ausbildung
- Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975) - Berufe
- Magazine Herausgeber
Journalist
Novellist
Kritiker
Kommentator - Organisationen
- Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Costa Novel Award 2009
- Kurzbiographie
- Irish writer Colm Tóibín, born in 1955, worked as a journalist before achieving fame as a fiction writer. His works often depict Irish society and explore themes of creativity and homosexuality.
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Group Read, July 2020: The Master in 1001 Books to read before you die (Oktober 2020)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in The Prizes (September 2017)
2013 Booker longlist: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín in Booker Prize (März 2014)
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Diese Geschichte wird nach meinem Empfinden sehr linear und spannungsarm erzählt. Mit der Protagonistin bin ich nicht recht warm geworden, sie bleibt in Verhalten passiv und distanziert, ihre Entscheidungen und Handlungen waren für mich als Leserin zum Teil nicht nachvollziehbar. Erst im vierten Teil gewinnt die Handlung an Fahrt und auch ein bisschen an Spannung, um dann sehr aprupt zu enden.
Die Geschichte lässt sich gut lesen, hätte aber meines Erachtens mehr Potenzial gehabt. So bleibt eine leichte Enttäuschung zurück.… (mehr)