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Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole.
NEW YORK (AP) — Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93.
Tributes have continued for acclaimed Irish novelist Edna O’Brien following her death at the age of 93. The author died peacefully on Saturday following a long illness, a statement from her ...
TRIBUTE: The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her ...
28 July – President Higgins led tributes to writer Edna O'Brien who died the previous day, aged 93, describing her as "a fearless teller of truths" and "a superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society with realities long ignored and suppressed." Taoiseach Simon Harris described O'Brien as "a brave, gifted, dignified ...
Lantern Slides is a short story collection by Irish author Edna O'Brien and won the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [1] It contains twelve stories, published in 1990 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US.
Family and friends of the novelist were among those who gave readings and paid tribute during the service in her native Tuamgraney.
House of Splendid Isolation is a 1994 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel depicts the relations of an Irish Republican Army [which?] terrorist and his hostage, an elderly woman. [1] The novel brings elements of the thriller genre to O'Brien's ongoing explorations of Irish society. [1]