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Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)
This article is about the novelist. For the screenwriter and television producer, see Colm Tobin.
Colm Tóibín FRSL | |
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Tóibín in 2006 | |
| In office 2 February 2017 – 2022 | |
| Succeeded by | Wendy Beetlestone |
| Born | (1955-05-30) 30 May 1955 (age 69) Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland |
| Alma mater | UCD |
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| Website | colmtoibin.com |
| Writing career | |
| Language | English (Hiberno-English) |
| Genre | Essay, Novel, Short Story, Play, Poem |
| Subject | Irish society, living abroad, creativity, personal identity |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards | Encore Award 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 2004 International Dublin Literary Award 2006 Irish PEN Award 2011 Hawthornden Prize 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature 2019 David Cohen Prize 2021 Folio Prize 2022 |
Colm TóibínFRSL (KUL-əm toh-BEEN,Irish:[ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠt̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.[2][3]
His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker P
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Interview
The author Colm Tóibín is interviewed by William Atkins, on his latest novel The Magician, which has won this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize.
Atkins, who served as a judge for award, spoke to Tóibín about Thomas Mann, magic and the appreciation of suffering.
One of the achievements of this beautiful novel is the deftness with which it imagines itself into the life of a well-known figure, Thomas Mann. I became curious to know, as I reread it, whether the line to be trodden between factual truth and invention revealed itself to you naturally, in the course of the writing, or whether it was more like a tightrope to be walked, step by step.
My responsibility, I think, was to create illusion, the illusion that you are seeing the world from the perspective of Thomas Mann, that everything is being perceived from his point of view. That was the main task, to hold that point of view. I followed his trajectory – as outlined by his biographers – as closely as I could. I tried various systems, including a lot of flashbacks, but then it seemed to me essential that the readers (and Mann) would not know what was coming next, that each event would not seem part of a pattern, but almost a surprise.
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