Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York. His new book, A Guest at the Feast, brings together essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
Past Events
Colm Tóibín, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time, speaks about his new essay collection with poet and writer Seán Hewitt.
Join us in November for an evening of urgent stories on the environment, life-changing journeys and triumphant Lionesses
5x15 x Rathbones Folio Prize Writing Masterclasses chaired by James Naughtie