Brief introduction of master author

Colm tobin is a famous contemporary Irish writer. 1955 was born in Ireland, a family keen on Irish independence movement, and graduated from Dublin University College. He devoted himself to journalism in the 1980s and was the editor of Magill, a monthly Irish news magazine. Since the publication of the first novel "South" in 1990, Tobin has published five novels, a collection of short stories, a drama, several travel notes, essays and other non-fiction works, and edited the penguin edition of Irish novels.

The Master is his most famous work so far and won the 2006 IMPAC Dublin International Literature Award.

His novel Black Water Light Ship was published in 1998, and was nominated for British Booker Prize and IMPAC Dublin International Literature Award. So far, colm tobin lives in Dublin. Colm tobin, born in 1955, is a very important Irish writer in today's literary world. His works cover novels, nonfiction, literary criticism and drama, and he has taught English literature and creative writing in many universities such as Stanford, Princeton and new york. Since 1990 published the first novel "South", six collections of novels and short stories have been created. Among them, The Master won the 2006 IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, The Master and The Blackwater Lighthouse Ship were shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and Brooklyn was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009. The Master is Tobin's only work translated into simplified Chinese. The Master is Tobin's most famous novel and his only novel translated into simplified Chinese. Tobin is a frequent visitor to the Booker Prize and has been shortlisted for three times. His work Brooklyn was once again shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Literature, and the simplified Chinese version will be published in 2065438+ 1 When the Booker Prize shortlist was announced, there was a comment in the British media. Without the works of Tobin and another writer, the Booker Prize in 2009 would be even more controversial, because very popular historical novels occupy four of the six shortlists, including Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, a female writer who won the final prize, set in the Tudor dynasty of Henry VIII. Tobin is not familiar with Hilary Mantel. He has only seen him several times and has never read Wolf Hall. Loneliness and introspection attracted him. In 2004, colm tobin completed the novel The Master, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Literature in 2005 and won him the IMPAC Dublin International Prize for Literature in 2006. The protagonist of The Master is the American writer Henry James, who pioneered psychoanalytic novels. "When writing this novel, I seem to have become James myself." The Master, written by Tobin, has a sensitive language and a lot of psychological descriptions of characters. Henry James is gay, and so is Tobin. "The loneliness and silence in the hustle and bustle are very interesting, and I am very interested." This is Tobin's explanation of himself and his work The Master. There are many scenes in the works where the "master" is in the noisy upper class, but his mind is elsewhere. Generally speaking, Tobin's writing style is like a chameleon, and each work is completely different. He said: "Although my books have different styles, the themes are all about loss and loneliness." The new book Brooklyn is about an ordinary girl who was born in a small town in Ireland. With the arrival of Irish immigrants in new york in 1960s, she experienced a process from hesitation, loneliness, homesickness to finding confidence and charm in a foreign land, but ultimately faced with the choice of responsibility and self-liberation. The protagonist was placed in the background of the wave of immigration in the 1950s, and she inevitably became a "nobody in the big era". Talking about the historical background of the characters, Tobin said, "This is a very important topic, but you must consider whether it gives the characters too much universality and historical importance. You can only write one character, and you can only pay attention to one face, one emotion, and the background is second. I pay special attention to psychology, not sociology and politics. I want to see what will happen to this ordinary girl under an ordinary personality and the pressure of the times. " Homosexuality has no influence on writing. "(Writing) is not fun, except that I don't have to work for those who bully me." In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, Tobin said bluntly: Writing has no benefits except a certain income, and he doesn't enjoy the process of writing. He is straightforward, just as he never denies his homosexuality. He didn't realize his sexual orientation until he was in his teens. He told his friends first, then his sister, and finally his parents learned. He recalled the situation when his mother learned that he was gay: "She was shocked, but she didn't scream." Before 1990, homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland, but Tobin has come out publicly, which shows that he faces his courage. He is also very lucky, and his friends and family are very tolerant. "Needless to say, homosexuality is a normal thing now." On the contrary, gay identity makes his writing more delicate than that of ordinary male writers. Master wrote the famous lawsuit of Oscar Wilde, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the greatest Supreme Court judge in American history, a gay jurist, a good friend of Henry James, and a gay sculptor. However, at the end of 19, homosexuality is still taboo, and these plots in the novel are ambiguous and depressing, which Henry James did not boldly show and Tobin did not boldly write. "Being gay is no big deal, it has no influence on my life and writing, and the readers are very tolerant." Tobin said.