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Tóibín - "I started it in the spring of 2000, and I didn't finish it until September 2013".

Colm Tóibín scoops Hawthornden Literature Prize

Author Colm Tóibín has been announced as the winner of the Hawthornden Prize for his novel Nora Webster.

Colm Tóibín on the allure of the breakfast fry-up

Novelist Colm Tóibín has been waxing lyrical about his native Wexford and the delights of a greasy fry on Saturday mornings.

Entertainment • 26 May 15

Elizabeth Bishop, Pulitzer Prize -winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-1950.

Colm Tóibín - On Elizabeth Bishop

The Irish writer Colm Tóibín has had a long fascination with the American poet Elizabeth Bishop whose poems he discovered in the 1970s. Bishop’s careful, watchful style has clearly influenced the form and tone of Tóibín's own writing.

Book Reviews • 05 May 15

Tóibín reveals soldier's mum influenced Testament

Colm Tóibín has spoken about the inspiration behind his one-woman play The Testament of Mary.

Entertainment • 30 Mar 15

The Folio shortlist novels: plot summaries

You are a book club member mulling over possible choices for fiction to read? To aid and abet you, RTÉ TEN presents plot summaries of the eight shortlisted works for this year's Folio Prize, the winner of which will be announced on March 23 in London.

Entertainment • 17 Feb 15

Boyne, Tóibín in NY Conversation

On Monday Feb 23, best-selling novelists John Boyne and Colm Tóibín will be in conversation at 52 Prince St New York on the subject of "making sense of complicity in atrocity."

Entertainment • 17 Feb 15

Folio Prize winner to be announced on March 23

Eight authors feature on the 2015 Folio prize shortlist, with £40,000 (€54,000 Euros) for the winner, to be announced at a ceremony in London on Monday, March 23. Colm Tóibín numbers among the eight contenders, narrowed down from the 80-strong longlist.

Entertainment • 13 Feb 15

Tóibín nominated for 2015 Folio Prize

Colm Tóibín is among the 80 nominees for the Folio Prize 2015 for his novel Nora Webster.

Entertainment • 17 Dec 14

Ten great books of 2014

Paddy Kehoe reveals his 10 favourite books of 2014 - everything from Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You to Colm Tóibín's Nora Webster.

Entertainment • 16 Dec 14

Ten Great Books of 2014

Paddy Kehoe picks ten great books that saw the light of day in 2014.

Big Image • 02 Apr 24

Colm Tóibín pictured with BBC I TV presenter, Alan Yentob

Obamas buy book by Irish author Tóibín

US President Barack Obama and his daughters Malia and Sasha bought Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s latest novel Nora Webster amongst a number of other purchases in a Washington DC store.

Entertainment • 01 Dec 14

Tóibín to give public reading of his new book

Wexford author Colm Tóibín will read from his new novel, Nora Webster, at Dublin's Pepper Cannister Church on October 1.

Entertainment • 04 Sep 14

Testament of Mary for Barcelona performances

Colm Tóibín’s play, The Testament of Mary will be performed in Catalan at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13.

Entertainment • 08 Jul 14

Martin Scorsese: co-director of NYRB doc

Scorsese NYRB Documentary to air on BBC

"I've been reading, or trying to read, The New York Review of Books since 1963." says director Martin Scorsese, whose documentary on the famous literary periodical is due for a BBC airing this summer.

Entertainment • 17 Jun 14

Ronan - Plays Eilis, who must choose between her life in the US and her life back in Ireland

Irish stars begin filming Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn

Shooting has begun this week in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford on the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín's bestseller Brooklyn, which stars Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson.

Entertainment • 01 Apr 14

Tóibín - Shortlisted for his novel, The Testament of Mary

Tóibín makes Booker Prize shortlist

Irish author Colm Tóibín has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Testament of Mary, but there is disappointment for longlisted Irish writers Colum McCann (TransAtlantic) and Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart).

Entertainment • 10 Sep 13

Ryan - Longlisted for his debut novel, The Spinning Heart

Three Irish authors on Booker longlist

Irish writers Colum McCann, Donal Ryan and Colm Tóibín are among the 13 authors on the longlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

Entertainment • 23 Jul 13

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