Colm Tóibín is the award-winning author of five novels: The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize; The Heather Blazing, winner of the Encore Award for best second novel; The Story of the Night; The Blackwater
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Colm Tóibín is the award-winning author of five novels:
The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize;
The Heather Blazing, winner of the Encore Award for best second novel; The
Story of the Night;
The Blackwater Lightship, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and, most recently,
The Master, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
His non-fiction includes
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border;
Homage to Barcelona;
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe; and, most recently,
Love in a Dark Time. He is also the co-author, with Carmen Callil, of
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950.
He lives in Dublin, Ireland.