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Edna O'Brien


Born
in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Irish Free State
December 15, 1930

Died
July 27, 2024

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Edna O’Brien was an award-winning Irish author of novels, plays, and short stories. She has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. She was the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. She also received, among other honors, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy. Her 1960 debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland for its groundbreaking depictions of female sexuality. Notable works also include August Is a Wicked Month (1965), A Pagan Place (1970), Lantern Slides (1990), and The Light of Eve ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 59,189 ratings · 7,762 reviews · 137 distinct works • Similar authors
The Country Girls (The Coun...
3.76 avg rating — 14,440 ratings — published 1960 — 126 editions
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The Little Red Chairs
3.25 avg rating — 11,115 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Girl
3.52 avg rating — 8,535 ratings — published 2019 — 55 editions
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Girl with Green Eyes (The C...
3.74 avg rating — 3,517 ratings — published 1962 — 75 editions
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Country Girl
3.52 avg rating — 2,581 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Girls in Their Married Blis...
3.54 avg rating — 2,337 ratings — published 1964 — 47 editions
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In the Forest
3.62 avg rating — 1,918 ratings — published 2002 — 44 editions
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August Is a Wicked Month
3.27 avg rating — 1,506 ratings — published 1965 — 28 editions
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House of Splendid Isolation
3.62 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 1994 — 40 editions
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3.85 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 1968 — 27 editions
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“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
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“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest
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“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
― Edna O'Brien
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