EDNA O'BRIEN is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including the New York Times Notable Books and Book Sense picks Wild Decembers and In the Forest, and Lantern Slides, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2002 she won the National Medal for Fiction from the National Arts Club. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O'Brien was born and grew up in Ireland and has lived in London for many years.
Force, hatred, history ... That’s not life for men and women ... it’s the very opposite of that that is really life. #JamesJoyce | Curated by Pádraig Ó Floinn.
Radio 22 Sept. 2022, @BBCr4today Edna O'Brien talks to James Naughtie. "I was asked to write a play about Joyce's women … therefore I kept to my brief." Segment: 2:24:08 to 2:30:41 https://t.co/aXw4v5v4MI #EdnaOBrien #JoycesWomen #theatre @AbbeyTheatre #JamesJoyce #DublinsDante
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I loved this response from Dame Edna O'Brien on @BBCr4today: Naughtie: How was it you came to believe [...] that the way to deal with [Joyce] and explore him was through the women? O'Brien: I was asked to write a play about Joyce's woman and therefore I kept to my brief... https://t.co/GV3dA9tryp