Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.
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.