Wizyta Colma Toibina we Wrocławiu jest współfinansowana przez Culture Ireland.
Colm Toibin (b. 1955) studied at University College Dublin and lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978. Out of his experience in Barcelona he produced the novel „The South” and „Homage to Barcelona” (1990). His work as a journalist and travel writer includes „Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border” (1987) and „The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe” (1994). His other novels are: „The Heather Blazing” (1992, winner of the Encore Award); „The Story of the Night” (1996, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Prize); „The Master” (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize); „Brooklyn” (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His other books include: „Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar” (2002) and „All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James” (2010). His work has been translated into thirty languages. Toibin is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has twice been Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University, he also taught at Princeton between 2009 and 2011, and was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in the autumn of 2011. He is currently Mellon Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His short story collections are „Mothers and Sons” (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and „The Empty Family” (2010) which was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize. In 2011, his memoir „A Guest at the Feast” was published by Penguin UK as a Kindle original. In 2012 his new collection of essays „New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families” appeared.
Colm Toibin’s visit in Poland is supported by Culture Ireland.