Colm Tóibín
Teoksen Brooklyn tekijä
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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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
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In Lovely Blueness: adventures in troubled light 2 kappaletta
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Viisasteleva sydän (1817) — Johdanto, eräät painokset; Johdanto, eräät painokset — 28,658 kappaletta
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography (2007) — Johdanto, eräät painokset — 1,274 kappaletta
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Avustaja — 300 kappaletta
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Avustaja — 116 kappaletta
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Avustaja — 53 kappaletta
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Avustaja — 23 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1955-05-30
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Ireland
- Syntymäpaikka
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
- Asuinpaikat
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain - Koulutus
- Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975) - Ammatit
- magazine editor
journalist
novelist
critic
commentator - Organisaatiot
- Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Costa Novel Award 2009
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- 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.
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
Group Read, July 2020: The Master, 1001 Books to read before you die (lokakuuta 2020)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award , The Prizes (syyskuu 2017)
2013 Booker longlist: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín, Booker Prize (maaliskuu 2014)
Kirja-arvosteluja
Brooklyn Tekijä: Colm Tóibín
Very touching, well-written story about a woman between two worlds. I truly liked this and read it in one day!
Brooklyn lingers in your mind even after you have put it down. The events take place on both sides of the Atlantic, Ireland and the US, and the story of Tóibín’s protagonist beautifully portrays the immigrant experience. Brooklyn, however, is not just a historical novel but poses relevant questions in any day and age about the choices we make in life. We may not be free to make our own fate, but what matters in the end is accepting the life that you have - and living it to the fullest.
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