The Verb: Colm Tóibín

Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with acclaimed Irish novelist, essayist, playwright and poet Colm Tóibín, the author of 11 novels including Brooklyn, which won the 2009 Costa novel award, and The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize as well as two short story collections. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín was made the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. In 2022, he published his first collection of poems, Vinegar Hill