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He’s written newspaper columns, travelogues, a history of the Irish Famine, and an examination of the Catholic Church in Europe, but Colm Tóibín is known primarily, in the words of one critic, as a novelist with “a spare style and compressed but powerful prose that owes as much to the American writer Raymond Carver as it does to any modern Irish writer.”
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Fact File
| Name:
Colm Tóibín
Current Home:
Dublin, Ireland
Date of Birth:
May 30, 1955
Place of Birth:
Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
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St. Peter's College, Wexford; University College, Dublin, B.A. in English and history
Colm Tóibín's official web site
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
| "My first novel was turned down by about 20 publishers over a period of two and a half years," Tóibín confesses in our exclusive interview. "Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed."
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An Early Inspiration
| Favorite Writers and Reads
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| | The Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemingway
"I read Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises when I was 16 or 17," Tóibín recalls. "I loved the glamour, the sour wisdom, and the range of characters. I had never thought of going to Spain, but the book made me love Spain and want to go there."
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| | Things Fall Apart
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Chinua Achebe
"This reads like a ballad, and its procedures have the same melancholy inevitability as the words of a beautiful old song," Tóibín reflects as he tells us of one of his favorite books, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Read our interview to learn more about Tóibín's favorite books, including:
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