Colm Tóibín is the author of eight novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and The Testament of Mary, all three shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently of Nora Webster. His nonfiction includes The Sign of the Cross, Love in a Dark Time, and On Elizabeth Bishop. His novel Brooklyn won the 2009 Costa Novel Award. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Colm Tóibín
Articles by Colm Tóibín
Thursday June 24
Nothing is Stable
Lispector had, in common with Borges in his fiction, an ability to write as though no one had ever written before, as though the work’s orginality and freshness arrived in the world quite unexpected, like the egg laid in Lispector’s story ‘A Hen,’ which Bishop also translated.