# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colm-toibin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:10.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colm-toibin"
name: "Colm Tóibín"
slug: "colm-toibin"
description: "Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet."
tagline: "Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colm_toibin_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.571984
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump