Colm Tóibín
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Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
Tóibín at the 2026 Edinburgh Book Festival
Brooklyn (novel)
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Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín. It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award and was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Pri
Colm Tóibín
…of the first hints, or sensations, of the tales as they form in James's thoughts is itself an instance of writer's wizardry". In 2009, he published Brooklyn, which was made into a movie in 2015. Its protagonist is Eilis Lacey, who emigrates from Ireland to Brooklyn. In 2012 Tóibín published The Testament…
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