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Irish Author - Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín's novels have won him millions of readers around the world. He writes about loss, repression and exile. But is he as dark and brooding as his fiction suggests?

Colm Tóibín is an Irish writer whose intense, lyrical novels have won him awards, acclaim and most importantly millions of readers around the world. Colm Tóibín isn't so much a flamboyant storyteller; he's more an acute observer of character and the deepest human feelings. There are recurring themes in his work - loss, mourning, sexual repression and exile which might suggest a dark, brooding presence - but how close is that to the real Colm Tóibín?

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