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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. Elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists, she was honoured with the title Saoi in 2015 and the biennial David Cohen Prize in 2019.
3 days ago · Acclaimed Irish author, Edna O'Brien, has died at the age of 93. Her literary agent, PFD, and publisher, Faber, said she died peacefully on Saturday after a long illness. They said their thoughts ...
3 days ago · Edna O'Brien was the woman who scandalised Catholic Ireland. Her book The Country Girls was banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit in her native country. But she went on to carve a literary ...
3 days ago · Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, has died at the age of 93. Her literary agent, PFD, and publisher, Faber, said in a joint statement that Ms O’Brien died peacefully on ...
2 days ago · FILE - Edna O’Brien attends the Broadway opening of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in New York. O’Brien, one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” died Saturday, July 27, 2024, at age 93.
1 day ago · Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, has died at 93. Critics have praised her novels for honest portrayals of women’s passions.
1 day ago · Josephine Edna O’Brien, born Dec. 15, 1930, was one of four children raised on a farm where “the relics of riches remained. It was a life full of contradictions.
2 days ago · Josephine Edna O’Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, on Dec. 15, 1930, and was the youngest of four children. Her father, a horse trader, ...
2 days ago · Lucy Scholes is a critic based in London. Decades before Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, the Irish writer Edna O’Brien — who died at 93 on July 27 — provided her own searing portraits ...
3 days ago · Edna O’Brien, who has died aged 93, burst on to the literary scene in 1960 with her debut novel, The Country Girls, the first of three semi-autobiographical books which follow the fortunes of ...
