The Milton Public Library Speaker Series presents an evening with award-winning, best-selling author Colm Tóibín. Colm will talk about his work and writing influences, followed by a Q&A and a book signing.

This event is free and open to the public, and will take place at Milton High School Auditorium, 25 Gile Road, Milton, Massachusetts. Doors open at 6pm.

Registration is encouraged (you will receive a reminder email if you register), and will open four weeks before the event.

Sponsored by the Milton Library Foundation and supported by the Friends of the Milton Public Library.

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. He is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. Tóibín’s celebrated novel Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award, was turned into a film starring Saoirse Ronan which garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. His story collection The News From Dublin publishes March 31. [Click here to view a collection of his titles in the Library catalog].

He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Colm Tóibín lives in Ireland and the United States.

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The MPL is presenting additional programs to celebrate Colm Tóibín. These include a Brooklyn movie night on March 25 and a Colm Tóibín books discussion group on April 6.