Allen Randolph, Jody. "Colm Tóibín, December 2009." Close to the Next Moment. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010. Boland, Eavan. "Colm Tóibín." Irish Writers on Writing. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2007. Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen. Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín. Reimagining Ireland series. Ed. Eamon Maher. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. Delaney, Paul. Reading Colm Tóibín. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2008, Educational Media Solutions, 'Reading Ireland, Contemporary Irish Writers in the Context of Place', 2012, Films Media Group External links Colm Tóibín at Aosdána Contributions by Tóibín to The New York Review of Books (article archive) Biographical profile at The Guardian Contributions by Tóibín to The Guardian (article archive) Tóibín receiving the 2011 Irish PEN Award – photo credit Alan Betson / The Irish Times Interview at Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4, first broadcast 7 January 2016) 1955 births Living people Alumni of University College Dublin Aosdána members Chancellors of the University of Liverpool Columbia University faculty David Cohen Prize recipients Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Irish essayists Irish gay writers Irish historical novelists Irish journalists Irish male dramatists and playwrights Irish male non-fiction writers Irish male novelists Irish male poets Irish male short story writers Irish PEN Award for Literature winners Irish LGBT poets Irish LGBT dramatists and playwrights Irish LGBT journalists Irish LGBT novelists Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners Magill people Male essayists People educated at St Peter's College, Wexford People from Enniscorthy Stonewall Book Award winners Sunday Independent (Ireland) people The Guardian journalists The New York Review of Books people The New Yorker people The Observer people Gay poets Gay dramatists and playwrights Gay novelists 20th-century essayists 20th-century Irish male writers 20th-century Irish novelists 20th-century Irish short story writers 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century Irish dramatists and playwrights 21st-century essayists 21st-century Irish male writers 21st-century Irish novelists 21st-century Irish short story writers 21st-century LGBT people Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age