Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

1955-05-30 Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland 12 Credits

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Colm Tóibín (/ˈkʌləm toʊˈbiːn/ KUL-əm toh-BEEN, Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bount...

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Untameable

Untameable

2023

Writer

Writing

Exploring the Nobel Prize winning 'bog poems' of Seamus Heaney and the wild Irish bog landscape. Written by novelist Colm Tóibín, the film features po...

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

2022

as Self

6.6
Acting

Delight in the fascinating, intersecting stories of the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor of 50 years, the literary gian...

Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

2021

as Self

Acting

A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats

Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland

2021

Writer

Writing

A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats

The Capote Tapes

The Capote Tapes

2021

as Self

6.6
Acting

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

Pale Sister

Pale Sister

2021

Writer

Writing

Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed b...

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

2017

as Self - Writer

Acting

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.

Return to Montauk

Return to Montauk

2017

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping to...

El testament de la Rosa

El testament de la Rosa

2016

Theatre Play

5.0
Brooklyn

Brooklyn

2015

Novel

7.3

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

The Blackwater Lightship

The Blackwater Lightship

2004

Novel

6.3

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

Fatherland

N/A

Novel

An adaptation of Colm Toibin’s novel, The Magician, a fictionalized biography of author Thomas Mann.