Topic: Colm Toibin

In the Critics this week

Craig Raine on Hockney, Alec MacGillis on the Obamas and Colm Toibin on Alice James. . . The Critic at large in this week's New Statesman is the...
Visit Aidan Hickey's gallery. . Last week Irish writer Colm Toibin attended the launch of a large national art exhibition in Dublin, with a...
The Empty Family By Colm Tóibín McClelland & Stewart 214 pp; $29.99. . Reviewed by Randy Boyagoda. . Only the very finest writers can explore the...
Photo by Steve Pyke/Handout. . A sentence or image will often stay with a writer for some time before it finds a proper home, but rarely does it...
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Here is the full long list of nominees for the International IMPAC Dublic Literary Award...
The organizers of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes, announced their longlist on Monday, and more...

Author Toibin sees novel surviving new technology

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin firmly believes the novel will remain fundamentally unchanged by the Internet or other high-tech innovations, a realm in which he admits he is nearly illiterate.</p><p>Toibin, the author of such ...

Poet Reid surprise winner of Costa book of year

Poet Christopher Reid was Tuesday announced as the surprise winner of a major British literary prize for a collection in memory of his late wife, hailed by judges as a " master work".The Hong Kong-born poet's collection "A Scattering" beat the ...
Poet Christopher Reid has been declared the surprise winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award for a collection in memory of his late wife, hailed by judges as a " master work".The Hong Kong-born poet's collection "A Scattering" beat ...

Toibin favourite to win Britain's Costa book award

Irish author Colm Toibin is favourite to win the 30,000-pound Costa Book of the Year award after Monday clinching the best novel category for his work " Brooklyn," observers said.The winner of the Costa Award is drawn from the winner of ...