Colm Tóibín

Writer

May 30, 1955 (71 years)

Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland

Biography

Colm Tóibín (/ˈkʌləm toʊˈbiːn/ KUL-əm toh-BEEN, Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bount…

Filmography

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Brooklyn

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Return to Montauk

Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together, seventeen years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?

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A Song

Music teacher Noel is reunited briefly with his estranged mother during a local trad session. He must navigate his complicated past alongside his connection with new-found love, James.

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The Blackwater Lightship

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

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Untameable

Exploring the Nobel Prize winning 'bog poems' of Seamus Heaney and the wild Irish bog landscape. Written by novelist Colm Tóibín, the film features poem readings by Michelle Fairley and is narrated by Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds.

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Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats

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Pale Sister

Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.

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El testament de la Rosa

In June 2013, actress Rosa Novell was diagnosed with cancer. While battling the disease, the treatment affected her optic nerve, leaving her blind. Among her unfinished projects was the Catalan version of Colm Tóibín's play ‘The Testament of Mary’. An approach to this work ultimately became her own testament.

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