Colm Tóibín
Autor de Brooklyn
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Series
Obras de Colm Tóibín
El amor en tiempos oscuros y otras historias sobre vidas y literatura gay / Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations (2001) 323 copias
One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) (2022) 13 copias
Donal Webster - short story 1 copia
Mortifications [short story] 1 copia
Ο Μάγος 1 copia
Čarobnjak 1 copia
The story of the night 1 copia
Blue: a personal selection 1 copia
The Street [short story] 1 copia
Uncorrected Excerpts 2009 1 copia
What Catalans Want 1 copia
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? 1 copia
La casa dei nomi 1 copia
"Taking my time". In: A New Ireland in Brazil - Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran 1 copia
The Master/ The Blackwater Lightship / The Heather Blazing / Brooklyn / The South / The Story of the Night (2010) — Autor — 1 copia
FARI LUNDRUES I BLLEKUOTERIT 1 copia
Sleep 1 copia
Ο Μάγος 1 copia
21 [short story] 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Persuasión (1817) — Introducción, algunas ediciones; Introducción, algunas ediciones — 28,688 copias
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography (2007) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 1,275 copias
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contribuidor — 301 copias
The art of the novel : critical prefaces, (1907-1909) = El arte de la novela : prefacios críticos (1934) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 218 copias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 copias
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contribuidor — 53 copias
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1955-05-30
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ireland
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
- Lugares de residencia
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain - Educación
- Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975) - Ocupaciones
- magazine editor
journalist
novelist
critic
commentator - Organizaciones
- Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014) - Premios y honores
- Costa Novel Award 2009
- Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
Group Read, July 2020: The Master en 1001 Books to read before you die (octubre 2020)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award en The Prizes (septiembre 2017)
2013 Booker longlist: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín en Booker Prize (marzo 2014)
Reseñas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Irish writers (6)
Audio Books (1)
Unmarried women (1)
Unread books (1)
Europe (1)
2000s decade (1)
Tour of Ireland (2)
to get (1)
2015 UpROOTed (1)
Booker Prize (4)
Short and Sweet (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
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- Obras
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- También por
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #1,076
- Valoración
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- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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- Favorito
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