Recorded on date : November 30, 2020
Colm Tóbín elected as a Fellow of the RSL in 2007, is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Colm was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool University in 2017 and honoured with An Post Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
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