Suman Shah (Gujarati:સુમન શાહ) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India.
 Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi awarded him the Sahitya Akademi Award of 2008 for his short story collection "Fatfatiyun".
 He wrote both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature.
 He authored more than 74 books including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translation into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works for literary theory, modern Gujarati Short Stories and poems.
 He was honorary editor of "Shabdasrishti", published by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1983-1986.
 He was an editor of "Khevna", a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009, published by Parshva Publication, Ahmedabad.
Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: "Liam Ó Flaithearta" ; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was an Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance.
 He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland.
 His brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (also a writer) was also involved in radical politics and their father, Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, before them.
 A native Irish-speaker from the Gaeltacht, O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English, except for a small number of short stories in Irish.
David Butler (born 1 January 1964) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet.
 He has won several literary prizes, such as the Ted McNulty Award from Poetry Ireland and the Féile Filíochta International Award and the Fish Short Story Award.
Martin Malone is an Irish novelist and short story writer.
 His novel, "The Broken Cedar" (2003), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for an Irish Fiction Award.
 His first novel, "Us" (2000), won the John B Keane/Sunday Independent Award.
 His story, “The Mango War”, the title story of his 2009 short story collection won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award in 2004.
 Malone has also won the Killarney International Short Story Prize and has been on two occasions shortlisted for both a Hennessy Award and a PJ O'Connor Award.
John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland."
 He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature.
Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
 A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht.
 Born in Finea, County Westmeath, he lived in County Sligo, and was described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".
Ronan Sheehan (born 1953) is an Irish novelist, short story writer and essayist.
 He was an early member of the Irish Writers' Co-operative (founded in 1974 by Fred Johnston, Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan) and its Secretary from 1975 to 1983.
 He received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1984.
 Until 2005 he was a practising lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law.
 He was the General Editor of the Catullus Project to translate works by Catullus into English and Irish.
Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar is a collection of essays by Irish writer Colm Tóibín published in 2002.
Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
 Philip Roth has described her "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation."
Colm Tóibín (] ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.

Question: what Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, critic and poet wrote "Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar"?
Answer: Colm Tóibín