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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