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Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
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- English (Hiberno-English)
- 1960–
Mar 29, 2024 · Edna O’Brien (born December 15, 1930, Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose work has been noted for its portrayal of women, evocative description, and sexual candor.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- December 15, 1930
- The Little Red Chairs.
- Girl.
- The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
- The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue.
Dec 15, 2020 · Like the queen of England, Edna O'Brien seems to have always been with us. Her career began at a time when it was mildly scandalous for a woman to write at all, let alone to explore the themes...
- Martin Doyle
Apr 25, 2013 · When Edna O'Brien wrote The Country Girls in 1960, the book was acclaimed by critics, banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned in churches for suggesting that the two small-town girls...
Oct 7, 2019 · Ian Parker on the regal Irish novelist Edna O’Brien, who, at eighty-eight, is publishing new fiction and recalling her early rise to fame.
Irish novelist and short-story writer Edna O'Brien was born on 15 December 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. She was educated at the Convent of Mercy in Loughrea, County Galway, and at the Pharmaceutical College of Ireland.
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