WRITER

Colm Tóibín

1955 - Today

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Colm Tóibín ( KUL-əm toh-BEEN, Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bounty of thousands of euro as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colm Tóibín has received more than 1,062,931 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Colm Tóibín is the 4,296th most popular writer (up from 5,318th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 267th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The story of the night
Falkland Islands War, 1982, Gay men, Fiction
1996
Mothers and sons
Fiction, Mothers and sons, Mères et fils
2006
Brooklyn
Irish, Women immigrants, Fiction
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.
2009
The master
Authors, Fiction, Americans
2004
The Sign of the Cross
1995
Mothers and Sons
Mothers and sons, Fiction
2007

Page views of Colm Tóibíns by language

Over the past year Colm Tóibín has had the most page views in the with 113,889 views, followed by Italian (9,232), and Spanish (7,602). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (149.63%), Bulgarian (99.21%), and Portuguese (63.15%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colm Tóibín ranks 4,296 out of 7,302. Before him are Maeve Binchy, Gervase of Tilbury, Iwan Bloch, William Trevor, František Langer, and Vincenzo Cerami. After him are Hervé Le Tellier, Diane Disney Miller, Janko Matúška, Decimus Laberius, Yun Seondo, and Agustina Bessa-Luís.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Colm Tóibín ranks 251. Before him are Teo Fabi, Ole Beich, Wang Yang, Sandra Bernhard, Toru Iwatani, and Catherine Hardwicke. After him are Lucía Méndez, Badri Patarkatsishvili, Buck Adams, Kevin Conroy, Jean-Luc Ettori, and Andrew Divoff.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Colm Tóibín ranks 180 out of 549. Before him are Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Catald (700), Pat McDonald (1878), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), and William Trevor (1928). After him are Luke Kelly (1940), Jason O'Mara (1972), Richard Kirwan (1733), Joshua Pim (1869), Richard Steele (1672), and Tom Moore (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Colm Tóibín ranks 30. Before him are Brendan Behan (1923), Jane Wilde (1821), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), and William Trevor (1928). After him are Richard Steele (1672), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Moore (1852), John Connolly (1968), and William McGonagall (1825).

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