Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is one of the most prominent literary figures in the English-speaking world. His work spans novels, short stories, essays, theatre and literary criticism. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize and has received prestigious awards including the IMPAC and the E.M. Forster Award. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. In Catalan, Amsterdam has published Brooklyn (2010), The Testament of Mary (2014), Nora Webster (2016), House of Names (2017), Mothers and Sons (2019), The Magician (2022), A Long Winter (2023) and Long Island (2024). The Irish author’s Homage to Barcelona was first published in 1990 and reissued in 2025 in a co-edition by Barcelona City Council and Ara Llibres. It has also been published in Spanish for the first time.