Colm Tóibín
Autor/a de Brooklyn
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de Colm Tóibín
One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) (2022) 10 exemplars
In Lovely Blueness: adventures in troubled light 2 exemplars
Mortifications [short story] 1 exemplars
Donal Webster - short story 1 exemplars
O mágico (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplars
21 [short story] 1 exemplars
Long Island: The long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn 1 exemplars
Le Magicien: Livre audio 2 CD MP3 1 exemplars
The Street [short story] 1 exemplars
Uncorrected Excerpts 2009 1 exemplars
'Among the Flutterers' in LRB 32/16, 19 August 2010 [review of Angelo Quattrocchi's 'The Pope is not Gay'] 1 exemplars
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? 1 exemplars
"Taking my time". In: A New Ireland in Brazil - Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran 1 exemplars
The Master/ The Blackwater Lightship / The Heather Blazing / Brooklyn / The South / The Story of the Night (2010) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Blue: a personal selection 1 exemplars
Sleep 1 exemplars
FARI LUNDRUES I BLLEKUOTERIT 1 exemplars
'Gay Night and Day' in NYRB 59/3, 23 February 2012 [review of Edmund White's 'Jack Holmes and His Friend'] 1 exemplars
'A Man of No Mind' in LRB 34/17, 13 September 2012 [review of Vargas Llosa's 'The Dream of the Celt'] 1 exemplars
What Catalans Want 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography (2007) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,248 exemplars
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Col·laborador — 295 exemplars
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Col·laborador — 115 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1955-05-30
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland
- Lloc de naixement
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain - Educació
- Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975) - Professions
- magazine editor
journalist
novelist
critic
commentator - Organitzacions
- Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014) - Premis i honors
- Costa Novel Award 2009
- Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
Group Read, July 2020: The Master a 1001 Books to read before you die (octubre 2020)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award a The Prizes (setembre 2017)
2013 Booker longlist: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín a Booker Prize (març 2014)
Ressenyes
El mag de Colm Tóibín
Explica la història d'un home imperfecta i ambivalent: L'home que amb l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial es va situar al costat fosc de la historia. El pare de sis fills q va amagar la seva homosexualitat. L'escriptor reconegut amb el Premi Nobel que va desertar la pàtria que l'havia inspirat per a no tornar-hi mai: Thomas Mann
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Nora Webster is recently widowed. Unmoored by her sudden loss and the needs of her children whom she now must raise alone, she faces a future a future that was never meant to be. Introspective novel.
Lectura en anglès fàcil. La història d'una noia irlandesa que no té feina al seu poble i emigra als EEUU.
"Summer of ‘38" és un conte de Colm Tóibín que va se publicat el 4 de març de 2013 a The New York Yorker. Joana Pena, el va traduir per al seu treball de recerca de batxillerat i va guanyar una menció especial de la Facultat de Traducció i Interpretació de la Pompeu Fabra.Na Joana ha fet també l'edició del llibre, que inclou, a més del conte, el making-of "Un conte pallarès" i una entrevista a l'autor.
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Europe (1)
Unmarried women (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Short and Sweet (1)
2015 UpROOTed (1)
Audio Books (1)
Irish writers (6)
Tour of Ireland (2)
Booker Prize (4)
to get (1)
2000s decade (1)
Unread books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 77
- També de
- 41
- Membres
- 19,560
- Popularitat
- #1,116
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 823
- ISBN
- 598
- Llengües
- 22
- Preferit
- 63
- Quant a
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 1,331
