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Major Prizes

Sign of the Cross Shortlisted for the Waterstone's / Volvo / Esquire Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 1994.

The Blackwater Lightship Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 1999.

Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Award 2001.

NY Times Notable Book 2001.

The Heather Blazing Winner Encore Prize for Best Second Novel published in Britain in 1992.

Won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995.

The South Shortlisted for Whitbread First Novel Prize.

Winner of Irish Times / Aer Lingus First Novel Prize.

The Story of the Night "Ferro-Grumley Prize "Best gay novel of 1997" by Publishing Triangle

Short-listed for the Prix Femina for the best novel published in translation in France.

Fellowship Colm Toibin was a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers New York Public Library.

Affiliations Colm Toibin is a member of Aosdana.