Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien was born on 15 December 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare. Having qualified in pharmacy in Dublin in 1950, she married the writer Ernest Gébler and settled with him in London, where she lived until her death. A novelist, short-story writer and memoirist, author of House of Splendid Isolation, The Little Red Chairs and Girl, she received the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2018 and a special Prix Femina in 2019. She died in London on 27 July 2024.

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• NovelThe Country GirlsEdna O'Brien · 1960Literature