Colm Tóibín
Novelist, Author
1955 –
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Who is Colm Tóibín?
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.
Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was hailed as a champion of minorities as he collected the 2011 Irish PEN Award. In 2011, he was named one of Britain's Top 300 Intellectuals by The Observer.
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- Born
- May 30, 1955
Enniscorthy - Also known as
- Colm Toibin
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- University College Dublin
- Lived in
- County Wexford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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