Colm Tóibín, "Staying Home, Leaving Home: Ireland and America"

The Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts welcome the internationally acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín to the University of Georgia as the second annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding March 15-17, 2017.

On Thursday, 16 March, Tóibín will give a reading and lecture at 3:30 pm in the UGA Chapel, followed by a book signing at Avid Bookshop at 6 pm. 

Tóibín has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize, for his novels The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), and The Testament of Mary (2012). The Master won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was named Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Brooklyn won the Costa Novel Award, and the film, adapted by screenwriter Nick Hornby, directed by John Crowley, and starring Saoirse Ronan, was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

For a full schedule of events, please visit https://deltachair.uga.edu/.