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Name: Edna O'Brien  
   
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Date of Birth: 15th December 1930
   
Place of Birth: Twamgarney, County Clare, Ireland
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Edna O'Brien (born December 15, 1930) is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men.

Life and career

Born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Irish Free State in 1930, a place O'Brien would later describe as "fervid" and "enclosed", Edna O'Brien originally practiced as a chemist, but published her first book - The Country Girls in 1960. The Country Girls was the first part of a trilogy of novels which also included The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964).

Her 1971 novel A Pagan Place was about her childhood living in a repressive Irish town. Indeed, her parents were vehemently against all things related to literature, and Edna was very troubled by that fact. In 1981 she wrote a play - Virginia, which was about Virginia Woolf and was staged at the Public Theater in New York in the spring of 1985. Another notable work was a biography of James Joyce, released in 1999.

She has received numerous awards for her works included a Kingsley Amis Award in 1962, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1990 for Lantern Slides.

She was married, against her parents' wishes, to the Jewish Czechoslovakian-born writer Ernest Gebler, by whom she had 2 sons; they ultimately divorced and Gebler died in 1998. O'Brien travels extensively, but is mostly based as an expatriate in London.

Bibliography

  • The Country Girls (1960)
  • The Country Girl (1962)
  • Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964)
  • August Is a Wicked Month (1965)
  • Casualties of Piece (1966)
  • The Love Object (1968)
  • A Pagan Place (1971)
  • Zee & Co. (1971)
  • Night (1972)
  • A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974)
  • Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977)
  • Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978)
  • Returning (1982)
  • A Fanatic Heart (1984)
  • Tales for the Telling (1986)
  • The High Road (1988)
  • Far From the Land (1989)
  • On the Bone (1989)
  • Lantern Slides (1990)
  • Time and Tide (1992)
  • House of Splendid Isolation
  • Down By the River (1997)
  • James Joyce (1997)
  • Wild Decembers (1999)
  • In the Forest (2002)



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