New Writing 11 - Tapa blanda

Our cities, our love affairs, our voices, our familiar landscapes, are at once immediate and awry, recognisable yet unexpected. In this eleventh edition of the annual, PICADOR NEW WRITING 11 showcases both new writers and selections from works in progress by well-known writers. Chosen by writers Colm Toibin and Andrew O'Hagan, this is an idiosyncratic and exhilarating collection.

Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year, The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. He is also the author of two short-story collections, Mothers and Sons, which was awarded the inaugural Edge Hill Prize, and The Empty Family, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.