President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘fearless teller of truths’ who died peacefully on Saturday after long illness
Her literary agent, PFD, and publisher, Faber, said in a joint statement that Ms O’Brien died peacefully on Saturday after a long illness. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends, in particular her sons Marcus and Carlo. The family has requested privacy at this time,” it said.
Her debut trilogy of novels – The Country Girls , The Lonely Girl and Girls in Their Married Bliss – were famously banned by the Irish censorship board.These included the Pen Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature in 2018 and the David Cohen prise for literature in 2019. On Sunday the president described Edna O’Brien as one of the outstanding writers of modern times. He said her work had been sought as model all around the world.
“While the beauty of her work was immediately recognised abroad, it is important to remember the hostile reaction it provoked among those who wished for the lived experience of women to remain far from the world of Irish literature, with her books shamefully banned upon their early publication.
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