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Edna O'Brien


Ireland (b.1932)
Mother of Carlo Gébler

In more than twenty books, Edna O'Brien has charted the emotional and psychic landscape of her native Ireland. Often criticised in her own country for her outspoken stance, she has forged a universal audience; the San Francisco Chronicle described her as 'a worthy heir to the great Irish forebears in Irish literature', while Le Figaro noted that 'the breathlessness of her language is comparable to Faulkner'. Awards and prizes include the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Premier Cavour (Italian), American National Arts Gold Medal and Ulysses Medal 2006.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Country Girls Trilogy
   1. The Country Girls (1960)
   2. The Girl with Green Eyes (1962)

     aka The Lonely Girl

   3. Girls in Their Married Bliss (1963)
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Novels
   August Is a Wicked Month (1965)
   Casualties of Peace (1966)
   A Pagan Place (1970)
   Zee and Co. (1971)
   Night (1972)
   Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977)
     aka I Hardly Knew You
   The Dazzle (1981)
   The Rescue (1983)
   The High Road (1988)
   Far from the Land (1989)
   On the Bone (1989)
   Time and Tide (1992)
   House of Splendid Isolation (1994)
   Down by the River (1996)
   Wild Decembers (1999)
   In the Forest (2002)
   The Light of Evening (2006)
   The Little Red Chairs (2015)
   Girl (2019)
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Collections
   The Love Object (1968)
   A Scandalous Woman (1972)
   Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978)
     aka A Rose in the Heart
   Collector's Choice (1978)
   Returning (1982)
   A Fanatic Heart (1984)
   Lantern Slides (1990)
   An Edna O'Brien Reader (1994)
   Mrs. Reinhardt (1996)
   Irish Revel (1998)
   Triptych and Iphigenia (2005)
   Poolside (2007) (with others)
   Saints and Sinners (2011)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Shovel Kings (2009)
   Paradise (2019)
   The Love Object: A Story (2020)
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Anthologies edited
   Some Irish Loving (1979)
   Tales for the Telling (1986)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Edna O'Brien recommends
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Nora (2021)
Nuala O'Connor
"A lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle."
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Grace (2017)
Paul Lynch
"A beautifully written novel, with a haunting story and deep echoes of the Ancients."

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Anthologies containing stories by Edna O'Brien
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Loss (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop
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Snapshots (2000)
20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction
edited by
Janet Berliner and Joyce Carol Oates

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