Irish writer Colm Tóibín wins literary peace award

Irish novelist, journalist, and essayist, Colm Tóibín, is this year’s winner of a US lifetime achievement award that celebrates the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.

Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials named Tóibín, whose work has drawn from his native Ireland, his life as a gay man, and his travels as an international journalist, for the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.

It is named after the late US diplomat, who brokered the 1995 Bosnia peace accords, in Ohio.