Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels, including The Testament of Mary (2014), Nora Webster (2015), Brooklyn (2016), A House of Names (2019) and The Magician (2023), all published by Ikaros. He has also published two collections of short stories and numerous essays. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and has won, among others, the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Prize. He has been awarded the highest honour in Irish literature (Laureate for Irish Fiction) for the period 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. He is a professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He lives in Ireland and New York.