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Colm Tóibín

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)

Séries

Obras por Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn (2009) 5,201 exemplares
The Master (2004) 3,092 exemplares
Nora Webster (2014) 1,458 exemplares
The Blackwater Lightship (1999) 1,441 exemplares
The Testament of Mary (2012) 1,372 exemplares
The Magician (2021) 873 exemplares
The Heather Blazing (1992) 823 exemplares
The Story of the Night (1996) 727 exemplares
House of Names (2017) 726 exemplares
Mothers and Sons: Stories (2006) 715 exemplares
The Empty Family: Stories (2010) 590 exemplares
The South (1990) 424 exemplares
Homage to Barcelona (1990) 256 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Editor — 149 exemplares
On Elizabeth Bishop (2015) 127 exemplares
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002) 104 exemplares
The Irish Famine: A Documentary (1999) 100 exemplares
A Guest at the Feast: Essays (2011) — Narrador, algumas edições82 exemplares
The Shortest Day (2020) 54 exemplares
Vinegar Hill: Poems (2022) 40 exemplares
New Writing from Ireland (1993) — Editor — 35 exemplares
Long Island (2024) 22 exemplares
Henry James and American Painting (2017) 21 exemplares
The Use of Reason (2006) 20 exemplares
The Blackwater Lightship [2004 TV Movie] (2004) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Dubliners (1990) 10 exemplares
Synge: A Celebration (2005) 10 exemplares
A Guest at the Feast: A Memoir (2011) 9 exemplares
Ireland: On the Edge of Europe (2008) 7 exemplares
Philip Taaffe: Anima Mundi (2011) 7 exemplares
Ploughshares Spring 2011 (2011) 7 exemplares
The Trial of the Generals (1990) 7 exemplares
Surviving Ireland (2015) 6 exemplares
Seeing is Believing (1740) 6 exemplares
Pale Sister (2019) 5 exemplares
Beauty in a Broken Place (2004) 5 exemplares
Summer of '38 (2016) 4 exemplares
Richard Gorman (2005) 4 exemplares
Enniscorthy: A History (2010) — Editor — 3 exemplares
Čarobnjak 1 exemplar
Ο Μάγος 1 exemplar
21 [short story] 1 exemplar
Long Island 1 exemplar
What Catalans Want 1 exemplar
Martyrs and Metaphors (1987) 1 exemplar
Sleep 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Persuasion (1817) — Introdução, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições28,519 exemplares
The Sun Also Rises (1926) — Introdução, algumas edições22,847 exemplares
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) — Posfácio, algumas edições10,753 exemplares
Another Country (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições2,892 exemplares
The Golden Bowl (1904) — Prefácio, algumas edições2,739 exemplares
The Go-Between (1953) — Introdução, algumas edições2,313 exemplares
The Tunnel (1948) — Introdução, algumas edições2,229 exemplares
The Hour of the Star (1986) — Introdução, algumas edições2,004 exemplares
The Book of Evidence (1989) — Introdução, algumas edições1,546 exemplares
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography (2007) — Introdução, algumas edições1,267 exemplares
Hadji Murat (1912) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,099 exemplares
Captains of the Sands (1937) — Introdução, algumas edições876 exemplares
The Book of Other People (2008) — Contribuidor — 737 exemplares
De Profundis and Other Writings (1954) — Editor, algumas edições682 exemplares
Death in Spring (1986) — Introdução, algumas edições376 exemplares
Finbar's Hotel (1997) — Contribuidor — 319 exemplares
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
Voices in the Evening (1961) — Introdução, algumas edições234 exemplares
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces (1934) — Prefácio, algumas edições216 exemplares
English hours (1905) — Prefácio, algumas edições186 exemplares
First Folio: A Little Book of Folio Forewords (2008) — Contribuidor — 179 exemplares
The New York Stories of Henry James (2005) — Introdução, algumas edições153 exemplares
Brooklyn [2015 film] (2016) — Original book — 150 exemplares
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation (2017) — Contribuidor — 118 exemplares
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic (2020) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
AnimalInside (2010) — Introdução, algumas edições99 exemplares
Midsummer Nights (1702) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Granta 135: New Irish Writing (2014) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Garden Party and Other Stories (2016) — Prefácio — 57 exemplares
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing (2004) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
New Irish Short Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories (2020) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Jim Hodges: Love et Cetera (2009) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Godenzonen : verhalen over mannen (1999) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Dublin Review 68: Autumn 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1955-05-30
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Ireland
Local de nascimento
Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Locais de residência
Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Barcelona, Spain
Educação
Christian Brothers School, Enniscorthy
St. Peter's College, Wexford
University College Dublin (BA, 1975)
Ocupações
magazine editor
journalist
novelist
critic
commentator
Organizações
Royal Society of Literature (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Costa Novel Award 2009

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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.

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Coming-of-Age
 
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BooksInMirror | 291 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
A wonderfully fascinating book about gay lives and literature has been written by one of my favorite authors. One of the best things about this little book is that it explores gay lives through the reading and enjoyment of gay literature.
 
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jwhenderson | 3 outras críticas | Feb 7, 2024 |
In this slim novel, the mother of Jesus reckons with her rage and grief over the death of her son after she flees in fear for her own life. She remembers him as a sweet, dependent child and the passionate, arrogant man he became, proclaiming himself the Son of God, and sealing his death warrant. In Toíbín’s imagination, Mary is transformed from the passive, beatific incidental figure of the Bible to a very human mother confounded by her son’s demagoguery, but nevertheless supporting him during his agonizing hours on the crucifix and dealing with her grief afterward and guilt for having fled for her personal safety. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. Wonderfully narrated by Meryl Streep in the audio version.… (mais)
 
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bschweiger | 108 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |
L'autor ens explica la vida de Thomas Mann, nascut en el si d'una família de comerciants de cereals de Lübeck, el pare alemany de socarrel i la mare nascuda al Brasil, ella és la font de les múltiples històries que nodreixen la seva infància. Thomas és el segon fill de la parella, el seu germà gran Heinrich, que també serà escriptor, dues germanes que se suicidaran, La Lula i la Carla i el germà petit Viktor que acabrà formant part del partit nazi.
Quan el pare mort no confia en que la seva dona i els seus fills puguin tirar endavant el negoci, per això nomena un marmessor i tota la família ha d'estar sotmesa a les seves ordres, per aquest motiu marxen de Lübeck i s'instal.len a Munich. En Thomas no vol ser contable i fa que el facin fora de la feina per dedicar-se a escriure. Es casa amb la Katia, jueva d'una família adinerada, els Prilnsgheim, germana bessona d'en Klaus que es qui realment atrau l'atenció de Thomas Mann. Aquest sentiment serà reprimit durant tota la seva vida i només serà capaç de parlar-ne en els seus diaris íntims personals. La parella tindrà 6 fills: l'Èrika, en Klaus, en Golo, l'Elisabeth, la Mònika i en Michael.
Al llarg de la narració veiem la història d'Alemanya del segle XX en moments decisius, Thomas neix quatre anys després de la Unificació Alemanya, al 1918 no veurà clara la República lliure de Baviera, més tard la República de Weimar, l'ascens del nazisme, que no s'acaba de creure que pugui triumfar fins que es vegi obligat a exilar-se a Suïssa primer i finalment als Estats Units que li donaran la seva nacionalitat, tornarà al final de la seva vida a Europa desencantat dels EEUU. El Premi Nobel de Literatura al 1929 li va obrir les portes dels EEUU.
La seva vida està dedicada intensament a l'escriptura, fins el punt de descuidar la vida familiar, això li retreuen els seus fills, que seran bastant genials, especialment en Klaus i l'Erika, i el petit Michael dedicat al món de la música. Durant la narració veiem desfilar personatges importants del món cultural de la seva època: W.H Auden, casat amb l'Erika per obtenir la nacionalitat anglesa, Isherwood autor del relat font de la películla Cabaret. Schönberg, Alma Mahler, Winifred Wagner, que ajuda a fugir als pares de la Katia Mann a Suïssa, Bertol Brech, Einstein, Eleanora Roosevelt...
M'ha semblat sumament interessant i agradable de llegir, ara em venen ganes de rellegir les obres de Mann perquè segur que en podria fer una lectura molt més aprofondida i captaria millor el significat de "La muntanya Màgica, Els Boodenbruck, La mort a Venècia...
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Nuriagarciaturu | 44 outras críticas | Jan 28, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
77
Also by
41
Membros
20,008
Popularidade
#1,083
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
833
ISBN
605
Línguas
22
Marcado como favorito
65

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