name: Colm Tóibín
birth_date: 1955-05-30 00:00:00
genres: Gay and Lesbian, Nonfiction, Fiction
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about: Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.