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Colm Tóibín

Writing

Born May 30, 1955 · Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland

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Biography

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.

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Awards & recognition

  • Bodley Medal · 2023
  • The Writers' Prize · 2022
  • Runciman Award · 2018
  • honorary doctorate · 2017
  • Hawthornden Prize · 2015
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  • Joan B. Cendrós International Award · 2010
  • Costa Book Awards · 2009
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2007
  • Dublin Literary Award · 2006
  • E. M. Forster Award · 1995
  • Encore Award · 1993
  • AWB Vincent Literary Award
  • Irish PEN Award
  • Lambda Literary Award
  • Booker Prize · 2013 · nominated
  • Tony Award — Best Play · 2013 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 2009 · nominated
  • Dublin Literary Award · 2006 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 2004 · nominated
  • Dublin Literary Award · 2001 · nominated
  • Booker Prize · 1999 · nominated

Filmography7 titles

Brooklyn

2015Novel

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

2022as Self

The Blackwater Lightship

2004Novel

The Capote Tapes

2019as Self

Return to Montauk

2017Screenplay

Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

2025as Self

Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

2021as Self