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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, whilst France made her a Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in ...
20 hours ago · Edna O'Brien, the author who wrote of her native Ireland in such febrile prose, steeped in sex, love and religious angst, that it sparked national outrage and led to her self-imposed exile, has ...
17 hours ago · 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. O’Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by her publisher ...
1 day 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 ...
19 hours 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 ...
20 hours 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, ...
1 day ago · The writer Edna O’Brien, whose more than 60-year career included the 1960 novel “The Country Girls” that scandalised society in her native Ireland, died on Saturday aged 93, her agent said.
15 hours ago · 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 ...
19 hours ago · Edna O'Brien was born in County Clare in the west of Ireland. Published. 5 minutes ago. The acclaimed Irish writer Edna O'Brien has died following a long illness, her publisher has announced.
1 day ago · Lucy Scholes is a critic based in London. July 28, 2024. Decades before Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, the Irish writer Edna O’Brien — who died at 93 on July 27 — provided her own ...
