Colm Tóibín
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Then he went on to win the Nobel Prize.
I think he did turn up, but not for the shortlisting, but for the big dinner.
Yes, the art of losing isn't hard to master.
I mean, the oncologist said to me at the very first meeting, we haven't lost anyone to this yet, meaning testicular cancer.
So I always presumed that he was going to cure me.
And there's a lovely moment where something went wrong with my mouth and they're all looking at it.
And one nurse said to another nurse, no, no, we're not stopping.
We can't reduce the treatment because this is curative.
And hearing her saying that, thinking I wasn't listening.
So it wasn't really so bad.
But I had no intention of writing about it.
You know, how I battled cancer.
It came out the other side.
Sort of insulting to people who didn't survive.
But then I got a first sentence.