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Encyclopedia > Edna O'Brien

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. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ...


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). County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. ... The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) (1922–1937) was the name of the state comprising the 26 of Irelands 32 counties that were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Chemist Julie Perkins of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory pours from a Florence flask. ... The Country Girls was the first novel written by Irish author Edna OBrien. ...


Her 1970 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 spring 1985. Another notable work was a biography of James Joyce, released in 1999. Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...


She has received numerous awards for her works, including a Kingsley Amis Award in 1962, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1990 for Lantern Slides. Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... This article is about the year. ...


She was married, against her parents' wishes, to the Jewish Czechoslovakian-born writer Ernest Gebler, with whom she had two sons; they ultimately divorced and Gebler died in 1998. O'Brien travels extensively, but is mostly based as an expatriate in London. For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ...


Selected bibliography

  • The Country Girls Trilogy (1987), collected with new epilogue, ISBN 0140109846
    • The Country Girls (1960), ISBN 0140018514
    • Girl with Green Eyes (1962), first published as The Lonely Girl, ISBN 0140021086
    • Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964), ISBN 0140026495
  • August Is a Wicked Month (1965), ISBN 0140027203
  • Casualties of Peace (1966), ISBN 0140028757
  • The Love Object (1968), ISBN 0140031049
  • A Pagan Place (1970), ISBN 0297000276
  • Zee & Co. (1971), ISBN 0297003364
  • Night (1972), ISBN 0297995413
  • A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974), ISBN 0297767356
  • Mother Ireland (1976), ISBN 0297771108
  • Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977), ISBN 0297772848
  • Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978), ISBN 029777476X
  • Some Irish Loving (1979), translations, ISBN 0297775812
  • Returning (1982), short stories, ISBN 0297780522
  • A Fanatic Heart (1985), short stories, ISBN 0297786075
  • The High Road (1988), ISBN 0297794930
  • On the Bone (1989), poetry, ISBN 0906887380
  • Lantern Slides (1990), short stories ISBN 0297840193
  • Time and Tide (1992), ISBN 0670845523
  • House of Splendid Isolation (1994), ISBN 0297814605
  • Down by the River (1996), ISBN 0297818066
  • James Joyce (1999), biography, ISBN 0297842439
  • Wild Decembers (1999), ISBN 0297645765
  • In the Forest (2002), ISBN 0297607324
  • The Light of Evening (2006), forthcoming

External links

  • IMDB - list of films and TV works based on her stories and novels.
  • Books and Writers - biography and list of works.
  • 1992 audio interview of Edna O'Brien by Don Swaim

  Results from FactBites:
 
Books and Writing - 29/9/2002: The Sinfulness of Literature? (4652 words)
And that was Irish writer, Edna O’Brien, speaking to me at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where it was my great pleasure to interview the passionate and troublesome novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and teacher of creative writing who has also written a biography of James Joyce.
Edna O’Brien’s first six novels were banned in Ireland, and to add injury to insult, the priest in her village burned her books in the churchyard—and that’s some pretty serious criticism.
Edna O’Brien: I’m not sure what I did or did not do to change the fate of Irish womanhood, but I don’t think I changed my own fate; because one of the things about writing: each book is a beginning.
New York State Writers Institute - Edna O'Brien (785 words)
O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was an immediate success and began a trilogy that continued with The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964), along with A Pagan Place (1970), Mother Ireland (1976), and The High Road (1988).
In Down by the River, Edna O'Brien is at the peak of her narrative powers.
Edna O'Brien gave a reading at the New York State Writers Institute on May 7, 1997.
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