Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was chancellor) of the University of Liverpool from 2017 to 2022. He subsequently became Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City.
Personal life
Tóibín is gay. Since c. 2012, Tóibín has been in a relationship with Hedi El Kholti, an editor of the literary press Semiotext(e)). They share a home in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. He has served as a curator of exhibits for the Manhattan-based Morgan Library & Museum. He has judged both the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Giller Prize. Tóibín does not watch television, and his awareness of British parliamentary politics can be summed up by his admission that he thought Ed Balls was a nickname for the then Labour Party) leader Ed Miliband. He is interested in tennis and plays the game for leisure; upon meeting Roger Federer, Tóibín enquired as to his opinion on the second serve).
Personal life
As of 2008, he had family in Enniscorthy, including two sisters (Barbara and Nuala) and a brother (Brendan).
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