Noted Irish novelist Colm Toibin at UD Oct. 5

10:59 a.m., Sept. 28, 2004--Colm Toibin, Irish novelist, journalist and critic, will hold a reading, discussion and book-signing at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 5, in 130 Sharp Laboratory. The event is free and open to the public.

Toibin’s most recent novel, The Master, explores the career of Henry James. It has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize.

His previous works include The South, which won the Irish Times Prize for Literature in 1990, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. His first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, which explores the 1926 controversy over Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars. recently premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1995, Toibin was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M. Forster Prize.

Toibin is the editor of the Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. He also is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

This event is sponsored by the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society, the Department of English and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact Kevin Kerrane at (302) 831-8993 or [kkerrane@udel.edu].

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