Colm Tóibín

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Colm Tóibín

Devlin Hall, room 008

Acclaimed Irish novelist and New York Times bestselling author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín is also a literary and cultural critic, travel writer, journalist, and playwright. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, and The Dublin Review. Author of the novels The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, and The Blackwater Lightship, Tóibín has also published two collections of short stories, The Empty Family and Mothers and Sons. Shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Award, he has won prizes for fiction including the 2009 Costa Novel Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Tóibín is a member of the Arts Council in Ireland and is Leonard Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Center for Irish Programs

www.bc.edu/irishwriters