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Colm toibin biography author marianne moore His first novel, The South , was completed in , but not published until , when it was met with widespread acclaim. Book Club Giveaway! Retrieved 9 July His fifth novel, The Master , is a fictional account of the inner life of Henry James.

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Colm Toibin Biography

Colm T&#;ib&#;n is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism.

He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for &#; by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, T&#;ib&#;n lives in Dublin and New York.

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