Colm Tóibín: Man Imagines Mann
It’s been a year of recognition for Colm Tóibín. First the writer was announced as the new Irish Laureate for Fiction and then he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime of achievement. He’s also published a first book of poetry, Vinegar Hill and his novel about Thomas Mann, The Magician, has won the Rathbones Folio Prize. Join Tóibín as he tells all with Rathbones Folio Prize judge Tessa Hadley.
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