Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (in English Tobin) is a Romancier and a Journaliste Irish born in 1955 with Enniscorthy, Comté of Wexford. As a writer, it received several literary prizes.
Biography
Graduate of the University College of Dublin in History and English, it left and lived with Barcelona, after the death of Franco, a city on which it then wrote Hommage to Barcelona (1990). Returned to Ireland, he worked as journalist and travelled in South America, particularly in Argentine.It is the author of many works of fiction and of tests, just like it contributes to newspapers and reviews. It obtained to the price E. Mr. Forster, in 1995, of American Academy off Arts and Letters. He is member of Aosdána, an Irish organization of promotions of arts. He lives in Ireland.
Its first novel, From now on our exile ( The South , 1990), whose action proceeds in Spain and in rural Ireland of the Années 1950, tells the history of an Irish who leaves her husband and begins a relation with a Spanish painter. It obtained the price of Irish Times Irish Literature for the first work.
Its second novel, the burnt Heather ( The Heather Blazing 1992) has as a main character Eamon Redmond, judge of the Irish Supreme court, haunted by its clean last and the recent history of Ireland.
Its third novel, Histoire of the night ( The Story off the Night 1996) is held in Argentina during the war of the Falklands. Its fourth novel, the Lightship of Blackwater ( The Blackwater Lightship 1999) tells the difficult relationship between a grandmother, her daughter and her grand-daughter.
Lastly, the Master ( The Master , 2004) reconstitutes the life of Henry James between January 1895 and October 1899 (in French, at Robert Laffont, 2005).