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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Blackwater Lightship; 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. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.


How Much Did James Joyce Base “The Dead” on His Own Family?

Colm Tóibín on the Greatest Short Story Ever Written
October 30, 2018  By Colm Tóibín
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