2016.01.03 作家科尔姆-托宾

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin.

Best-known for his novels "Brooklyn" - now made into a film - "Nora Webster" and "The Master," he has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times.

Born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the second youngest of five children, Colm's life changed suddenly when his father died after a long illness when he was twelve. He says he has been dealing with the trauma which resulted in his writing ever since. After attending St Peter's College in Wexford and University College Dublin, he spent three years in Barcelona teaching English before returning to Ireland. He worked as a journalist until his books began to get published.

He once told a class he was teaching that "you have to be a terrible monster to write. I said, 'Someone might have told you something they shouldn't have told you, and you have to be prepared to use it because it will make a great story. You have to use it even though the person is identifiable. If you can't do it then writing isn't for you. You've no right to be here. If there is any way I can help you get into law school then I will. Your morality will be more useful in a courtroom.'"



作家科尔姆-托宾

他以小说《布鲁克林》（现已拍成电影）、《诺拉-韦伯斯特》和《大师》而闻名，曾三次被提名为布克奖得主。

科尔姆1955年出生于韦克斯福德郡的恩尼斯科西（Enniscorthy），在五个孩子中排行老二，在他12岁时，他的父亲因长期患病去世，他的生活发生了突然变化。他说他从那时起就一直在处理这个导致他写作的创伤。在韦克斯福德的圣彼得学院和都柏林大学学院上学后，他在巴塞罗那教了三年的英语，然后回到爱尔兰。他当过记者，直到他的书开始出版。

他曾对他正在教的一个班级说，"你必须是一个可怕的怪物才能写作。我说，'有人可能告诉了你一些他们不应该告诉你的事情，你必须准备使用它，因为它将成为一个伟大的故事。即使这个人是可以识别的，你也必须使用它。如果你做不到这一点，那么写作就不适合你。你没有权利来这里。如果我有任何办法可以帮助你进入法学院，那么我会的。你的道德观在法庭上会更有用。