A S TUTTERING FOUND A TION TRIBUTE
ESTEEMED IRISH AUTHORS COLM TOIBIN . ELIZABETH BOWEN . DERMOT BOLGER
COLM TOIBIN
One of the most prolific writers of the last 50 years, Colm Toibin, was born in County Wexford in 1955, and graduated from University College Dublin, working as a journalist while pursuing his own writing. Toibin has published nine novels, several of which have been bestsellers and won awards, in addition having published numerous works of non-fiction. His novel Brooklyn was made into a 2015 feature film while his 2012 short novel The Testament of Mary was made into a Broadway show in 2013 and was nominated for three Tony Awards.
"I still couldn’t say my own name, for example. But I wouldn’t
try. I would think carefully and get around it in some way or another.”
- COLM TOIBIN
Toibin discussed his stuttering in a January 3, 2016 opinion piece for the Irish Independent entitled “My Father’s Illness Affected Me So Deeply That I Developed a Stammer”. An April 29, 2009 New York Times article “The Novels of Colm Toibin Are All About Searching for Home” quotes the author as saying, “I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing down.”
His 2014 novel Nora Webster has a young character who develops a bad stuttering problem. When asked about his own speech in an interview about the novel in the Irish Times on September 27, 2014, Toibin answered, “I have it still, yes. I still couldn’t say my own name for example. But I wouldn’t try. I would think carefully and get around it in some way or another.”
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