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Edna O'Brien

July 2024

  • Irish playwright, short-story writer and novelist Edna O'Brien, 3 April 1962.

    From the Guardian archive
    Edna O’Brien in her own words – archive, 1962

    20 November 1962: The writer talks to Denis Hart about leaving County Clare for London, debut novel The Country Girls, and her new play
  • Indomitable … Edna O’Brien in 1976.VARIOUS

    ‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more

    The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction

    • Edna O’Brien obituary

    • Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

    • Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

October 2022

  • Stephen Hogan as James Joyce with Bríd Ní Neachtain as Nora Barnacle in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women at the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conall Morrisson.

    Joyce’s Women review – Edna O’Brien offers a fresh view on her literary hero

    O’Brien’s new play about her literary hero, imagining James Joyce through the eyes of the women in his life, is the hot ticket in Dublin

September 2022

  • Ali White as Harriet Weaver and Stephen Hogan as James Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women at the Abbey Theatre, directed by Conall Morrisson. Image: Ros Kavanagh

    Joyce’s Women review – Edna O’Brien’s powerful play is a fascinating portrait of a fellow writer

    O’Brien’s empathy for Joyce shines through in this lavish production, as she brings him to life, seen through the eyes of his mother, wife, daughter and lover

June 2022

  • James Joyce statue, Dublin, Ireland - 31 Jan 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Clearpix/REX/Shutterstock (12782970a) An archive photo of the statue in Dublin to the author James Joyce, whose book Ulysses was published in Paris 100 years ago this week. James Joyce statue, Dublin, Ireland - 31 Jan 2022

    The Guardian view on James Joyce’s Ulysses: a 100-year-old masterpiece

    Editorial: Bloomsday, the annual celebration of this great Dublin novel, is a good moment to reflect on its enduring significance

February 2022

  • Meal deals at a supermarket

    Brief letters
    Plastic-free meal deals would taste better

    Brief letters: Retailers’ packaging | Missing sections of the Guardian | Edna O’Brien | Mushroom delight

March 2021

  • Femina Foreign Literary Prize, Paris, France - 05 Nov 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ISA HARSIN/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock (10466247c) Edna O’Brien Femina Foreign Literary Prize, Paris, France - 05 Nov 2019

    Edna O'Brien to receive France's highest honour for the arts

    The 90-year-old Irish writer will be named commander of the French Ordre des Arts et Lettres on Sunday

December 2020

  • Edna O’Brien pictured in her Chelsea home last year.

    Edna O’Brien on turning 90: ‘I can’t pretend that I haven’t made mistakes’

    Ireland’s greatest living writer is as ambitious as ever. She talks about working in Nigeria, coping with critics – and one final novel

November 2020

  • Sally Rooney , Zadie Smith, and Toni Morrison

    Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors

    List by pseudonymous author of beloved Neapolitan novels includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and several Italian classics

July 2020

  • Mary Lavin.

    Irish women writing fiction were dismissed as 'quiet'. Ireland wasn't listening

    Sally Rooney is the latest in a long line of Irish women tackling weighty subjects in fiction – the difference now is that the world is finally taking them seriously

May 2020

  • Edna O’Brien.

    Books that made me
    Edna O'Brien: 'Reading Charles Darwin dislodged my religious education'

    The Irish novelist on reading prayer books as a child, her admiration for Silent Spring author Rachel Carson and how Chekhov ‘saved her sanity’

April 2020

  • The Irish novelist Edna O’Brien photographed at her home in London in August 2019.

    Scholars hit back over New Yorker ‘hatchet job’ on Edna O'Brien

    Irish literary critics unite to defend novelist after article portrayed her as ‘deceitful, flighty and self-pitying’

March 2020

  • Hilary Mantel, author. Budleigh Slaterton, Devon. Photograph by David Levene 31/1/20

    Women's prize for fiction lines up 'heavy hitters' on 2020 longlist

    Three Booker winners lead a 16-strong field contending for £30,000 prize in what judges described as ‘an extraordinary year’

February 2020

  • Author Andrea Levy

    Of course fiction tells someone else’s story

    Letters: Readers respond to the idea of cultural appropriation in literature and the assumption that only those with lived experience are able to tell an authentic story

January 2020

  • A street artist acting out a scene from James Joyce’s Ulysses on O’Connell Street, Dublin, to mark the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Wednesday 16 June, 2004.

    A portrait of the artist’s grandson

    Letter: The late Stephen Joyce, a blue plaque, and a truly Joycean moment

November 2019

  • Edna O’Brien, photographed at her home in London.

    Irish novelist Edna O'Brien wins lifetime achievement award

    Country Girls author receives £40,000 David Cohen prize seen as Nobel precursor

September 2019

  • The Irish novelist Edna O’Brien photographed at her home in London.

    Girl by Edna O’Brien review – painful, bold and challenging

    Edna O’Brien balances tact and audacity in this novel set amid the atrocities of Boko Haram
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