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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930-12-15
- Died
- 2024-07-27
- Works
- 135
Top works
- The country girls trilogy and epilogue
- The country girls trilogy and epilogue
- James Joyce
- Tales for the telling
- A scandalous woman, and other stories
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Film & TV
Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland
Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and writer for film and television.
Known for
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self2025
- Hemingway — Herself – Writer2021
- Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless — Self2019
- Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street — Self - Writer2017
- Wild Decembers — Woman in church (uncredited)2009
- The Meaning of Life — Self2009
- À mi-mots: Edna O'Brien — Self2004
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil — Self1986
- The Hard Way — Kathleen1980
- Question Time — Herself - Panellist1979
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Key facts
- Born
- Josephine Edna O'Brien , ( 1930-12-15 ) 15 December 1930, Tuamgraney , County Clare, Ireland
- Died
- 27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) (aged 93), London, England
- Resting place
- Inis Cealtra , County Clare
- Occupation
- Novelist memoirist playwright poet short-story writer
- Language
- English
- Period
- 1960–2019
- Notable works
- The Country Girls Girl with Green Eyes Girls in Their Married Bliss August Is a Wicked Month Casualties of Peace House of Splendid Isolation Down by the River Wild Decembers In the Forest The Light of Evening Saints and Sinners Country Girl The Little Red Chairs Girl
- Notable awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction , 1990 , Irish PEN Award , 2001 , Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award , 2011 , Saoi of Aosdána , 2015 , David Cohen Prize , 2019 , Ordre des Arts et des Lettres – Commandeur , 2021
- Spouse
- Ernest Gébler ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 )
- Children
- 2, including Carlo Gébler
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edna
- Family name
- O'Brien
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Tuamgraney
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- playwright
- Employer
- University College Dublin
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Edna O'Brien (2016).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1930-12-15
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
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- Edna O'Brien
- name in native language
- Edna O'Brien
- date of death
- 2024-07-27
- place of burial
- Inishcaltra
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), has been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland after the Second World War. The book was banned and denounced from the pulpit. Many of her novels were translated into French. Her memoir, Country Girl, was published in 2012, and her last novel, Girl, was published in 2019. Many of her novels were based in Ireland, especially in County Clare, but Girl was a fictional account of a victim of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping in Nigeria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edna O'Brien” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.