Edna O'Brien
Author · 37 books
Edna O’Brien is an award-winning Irish author of novels, plays, and short stories, has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. She is the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. She has also received, among other honors, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy. Her 1960 debut novel, The Country Girl, was banned in her native Ireland for its groundbreaking depictions of female sexuality. Notable works also include August Is a Wicked Month (1965), A Pagan Place (1970), Lantern Slides (1990), and The Light of Evening (2006). O’Brien lives in London.
Series
Books
التجربة الأنثوية
1998
Zee & Co
1971
House of Splendid Isolation
1994
Down by the River
1997
Country Girl
2012
Casualties Of Peace
1966
The Light of Evening
2006
Wild Decembers
1999
The Love Object
1968
Paradise
2019
A Fanatic Heart
1984
Girl
2019
Returning
A Collection of Tales
1982
In the Forest
2002
The Country Girls
1960
JAMES JOYCE
1999
James and Nora
1981
Saints and Sinners
Stories
2011
A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories
1974
August Is a Wicked Month
1965
Girl with Green Eyes
1962
Time and Tide
1992
Mrs Reinhardt
and other stories
1980
Byron in Love
A Short Daring Life
2009
A Pagan Place
1970
Shovel Kings
2009
Mother Ireland
1976
Vanishing Ireland
1987
Johnny I Hardly Knew You
1977
The Country Girls
Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue)
1986
Tales for the Telling
Irish Folk and Fairy Stories
1986
Night
1973
The High Road
1988
Girls in Their Married Bliss
1964
The Little Red Chairs
2015
Virginia
A Play
1981
Lantern slides
1990
