Author: Edna O'Brien
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-WIKIPEDIA: Edna O'Brien - -INDEX: Edna O'Brien (The Guardian) -OBIT: Edna O’Brien, groundbreaking Irish novelist, dies at 93 (Adrian Higgins, 7/28/24, Washington Post) -OBIT: Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93: After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century (Richard Lea, 7/28/24, The Guardian) -OBIT: Edna O’Brien, iconoclastic Irish author who wrote ‘The Country Girls,’ dies at 93 (Hillel Italie, Jul 28, 2024, AP) - - - -TRIBUTE: Ireland’s Literary Femme Fatale: The James Bond producer remembers Edna O’Brien, the pioneering writer whose books were once banned for their depictions of female sexuality (Barbara Broccoli, May 1, 2025, AirMail) -TRIBUTE: Edna O’Brien was the last great Irish iconoclast: Great Irish literature is defined by dissent. So why do so many writers uphold the status quo? (Finn McRedmond, 7/30/24, New Statesman) -TRIBUTE: Edna O’Brien: liberator and seductress (Denis MacShane, 7/29/24, The Article) -TRIBUTE: ‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered (Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Megan Nolan, Eimear McBride and Alex Clark, 29 Jul 2024, The Guardian) -TRIBUTE: Remembering the Firebrand Irish Novelist Edna O’Brien: Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship. (Lucy Scholes, July 28, 2024, NY Times) -ESSAY: ‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien: Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring (Sinéad O'Shea, 11 Apr 2025, The Guardian) -FILM REVIEW: Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story: elegant documentary is dazzled by the glamour of Irish author’s life: The glitzier details of Irish author Edna O’Brien’s life are given more space than her work in Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary. But with anecdotes like these, how could you resist? (Nicole Flattery, 17 April 2025, BFI) - - House of Splendid Isolation (1994) - Edna O'Brien (12/15/1930
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