Edna O’Brien, whose books were initially banned in Ireland but gained international acclaim, died Saturday after a long illness. She was 93 and her death was confirmed by her publisher, Faber, and the ...

They burned her book. Priests denounced it from the pulpit; in her hometown they burned it in the parish grounds, after the rosary. Some people, Edna O’Brien’s mother told her, had even fainted as it ...

The great Irish novelist and playwright Edna O’Brien died at the age of 93 on July 27, 2024 after a long illness. A controversial figure from the start, her first novel from 1960, The Country Girls, ...

Irish writer Edna O'Brien died Saturday at the age of 93 after a long illness. O'Brien sparked controversy in Ireland for the way she wrote about women's lives and relationships, as NPR's Isabella ...

In a 2011 review for America of Edna O’Brien’s In The Forest, Tom Deignan remembered something the renowned novelist had told him during an interview several years before. O’Brien, he wrote, “told me ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and ...

DUBLIN, July 28 (Reuters) - Edna O'Brien, the author who wrote of her native Ireland in such febrile prose, steeped in sex, love and religious angst, that it sparked national outrage and led to her ...

On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club. By Giulia Melucci Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the ...

Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, has died at 93. Critics have praised her novels for honest portrayals of women’s passions. Irish writer Edna O'Brien died Saturday at the age of ...