Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is a writer, journalist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. Tóibín's work, one of Ireland’s most important literary figures today, includes novels, essays and plays, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Tóibín lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978, an experience that gave rise to Homenatge a Barcelona (Columna, 2003) and El sur (Emecé, 2003). His return to Ireland in 1978 marked the beginning of his journalistic career, which he combined with travel writing. He currently writes for The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, among other publications. His main titles include Brooklyn (published in Catalan by Amsterdam Llibres, 2010, and in Spanish by Lumen, 2010), El faro de Blackwater (Edhasa, 2002), Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madre (Lumen, 2013), Nora Webster (published in Catalan by Amsterdam Llibres and in Spanish by Lumen, 2016) or El mago (published in Catalan by Amsterdam Llibres, and in Spanish by Lumen, 2022), a story about the life of Thomas Mann, with which he won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Literature. His latest books are La mirada captiva (Arcàdia, 2024), an unpublished collection of essays on artists such as Miró, Calder, Barceló or Tàpies and Long Island (Lumen and Amsterdam, 2024), the second part of the renowned novel Brooklyn.