The Magician

Name: The Magician
ISBN: 9780241003688

by Colm Tóibín

Rathbones Folio · 2022 · WinnerRathbones Folio · 2021 · ShortlistRathbones Folio · 2020 · Shortlist

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VikingSeptember 9, 2021Literary Fiction Biography & MemoirISBN 9780241003688

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Rathbones Folio Prize	2022	Winner	“For its sustained and deeply humane imagining of Thomas Mann's inner life — the costs of a suppressed self enacted in fiction of luminous precision.”
Rathbones Folio Prize	2021	Shortlist
Rathbones Folio Prize	2020	Shortlist

About This Book

Colm Tóibín's novel imagines the inner life of Thomas Mann — from his childhood in Lübeck through the rise of the Nazis, exile in America, and final return to Europe — focusing on his suppressed homosexuality, his marriage, his children, and the relationship between his life and his art. The novel won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2022.

About the Author

Colm TóibínIE

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and critic born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and worked as a journalist in Barcelona before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), Nora Webster (2014), and House of Names (2017). Read more →