The author of 10 novels, Colm Tóibín speaks with Kim Hill in 2022 about his 2021 Folio Prize winning book 'The Magician', a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Mann. Tóibín's novels 'The Blackwater Lightship' and 'The Master' were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the latter winning the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award. His 2022 collection of essays 'A Guest at the Feast' begins by taking us back to his childhood in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.

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