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Edna O'Brien

Irish writer (1930–2024)

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

Writing · 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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: IE
Active from: 1930-12-15
Active to: 2024-07-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 195
Total plays: 547

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities
· 2000 · cited 6,165x
The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,681x
Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050
· 2016 · cited 4,525x
Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective information.
· 1986 · cited 4,256x
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,133x

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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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Key dates

Born: 15 December 1930
Died: 27 July 2024

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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

Article

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.