Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist and essayist whose Brooklyn and The Master are celebrated explorations of Irish emigrant experience and artistic vocation. His sparse, lyrical prose has made him one of the most admired novelists of his generation. He is Ireland's most internationally celebrated living novelist.
Works
- BrooklynIrish immigrant woman remakes herself in 1950s Brooklyn
- Nora WebsterIrish widow rebuilds her life after her husband's death
- The MasterBiographical fiction of writer Henry James and his desires
- The Blackwater LightshipIrish family gathers as matriarch approaches death
- The Heather BlazingJudge confronts past and political violence in Ireland