Colm Tóibín receives Irish PEN Award

Colm Tóibín has been awarded the 2011 Irish PEN Award for outstanding contribution to Irish Literature. The award has been bestowed annually by the members of Irish PEN, an affiliate organisation of International PEN, a worldwide association of writers with over 140 branches, in recognition of “a significant body of work, written and produced over a number of years, and is open to novelists, playwrights, poets, scriptwriters etc.” Tóibín was presented the award on Friday February 11th by the directors of The Arts Council Mary Cloake.