Colm Tóibín

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Colm Tóibín (2006)
Colm Tóibín, reading at the Kunstverein Cologne from “Nora Webster”, organized by the Klaus Bittner bookstore

Colm Tóibín [ ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ ] (born May 30, 1955 in Enniscorthy , County Wexford ) is an Irish writer, journalist and literary critic.

Life

Tóibín went to school at St Peter's College in Wexford . He then attended University College Dublin and did his BA in 1975. He then changed his residence and moved to Barcelona . Tóibín's first novel, The South , was inspired by his time in Barcelona; likewise his work Homage to Barcelona from 1990.

In 1978 Tóibín returned to Ireland, where he began a master's degree. However, he broke this off and started a professional career as a journalist. From the early 1980s to 1985 Tóibín worked for the magazine "Magill".

After his first novel The South in the early 1990s, Tóibín wrote his second novel The Heather Blazing in 1992 . This was followed by the novel The Story of the Night in 1996 and the novel The Blackwater Lightship in 1999 . The fifth novel by Tóibín The Master from 2004 deals with a phase in the life of the writer Henry James . In 2006 Tóibín published a first collection of stories under the title Mothers and Sons (2009: Mothers and Sons ).

Tóibín is also the author of several non-fiction books, including a .: Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe . Toíbín wrote the play Beauty in a Broken Place , which premiered in Dublin in 2004. In the essay collection New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families (2012) he examined the biographies of James Baldwin , John Millington Synge , William Butler Yeats and others.

As a journalist, Tóibín's main job - in addition to his writing work - was continuously active in Ireland. Toíbín also publishes literary reviews . He edited the book by Paul Durcan The Kilfenora Teaboy from 1997 and The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction from 1999. Toíbín wrote The Modern Library with Carmen Calil in 1999 : The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 . Tóibín published a collection of essays Love in A Dark Time: Gay lives from Wilde to Almodóvar in 2002 and a study on Lady Gregory Lady Gregory's Toothbrush in 2002 .

As a screenwriter, he and Volker Schlöndorff wrote the script for the feature film Return to Montauk (2017), which was inspired by Max Frisch's story Montauk .

Tóibín is a member of Aosdána and has lectured at Stanford University and The University of Texas at Austin . He has also given lectures at several universities, such as Boston College and New York University . In 2014 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2016 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Literature prizes (selection)

Works in German

  • Tribute to Barcelona. Structure, Berlin and Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-351-02077-5 .
  • The South. Structure, Berlin and Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-351-02219-0 .
  • Flaming heather. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-498-06510-6 .
  • The story of the night. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich and Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-446-19786-9 .
  • The Blackwater lightship. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich and Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-446-20061-4 .
  • Portrait of the middle-aged master. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich and Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-446-20664-7 .
  • Mothers and sons. Stories. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23063-7 .
  • Brooklyn. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23566-3 . The book was made into a film in 2014, the film was released in Germany in January 2016 under the title Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds .
  • Mary's will. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24484-9 .
  • Nora Webster. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25063-5 .
  • House of Names. Novel. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Hanser, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26181-5 .

Essays

literature

Web links

Commons : Colm Tóibín  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antje Strubel , “Book of the Week” on Deutschlandfunk : “ The modern Oedipus ”, extensive review by Mothers and Sons , May 10, 2009
  2. ↑ The Guardian of February 22, 2012: New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín - review
  3. ↑ Honorary Members: Colm Tóibín. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The Irish Times : Three Irish authors on Booker longlist , July 28, 2009 (English)
  6. ↑ Man Booker Prize for Fiction : Longlist 2013 announced ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 23, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themanbookerprize.com
  7. ↑ Monika Nellissen: The Somewhat Different Mary Legend , welt.de, February 19, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Tóibín, Colm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author, journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Enniscorthy , County Wexford