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O'Connor to receive Irish Pen prize from President
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[Irish Times] - He added: “I'm also delighted because of the really great people who have won it before – some of my touchstones as a kid and as a writer, such as John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien and John B Keane. So, I feel it's very over-generous to
Saints And Sinners, By Edna O'Brien
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[The Independent] - Edna O'Brien's characters are, more often than not, suffering quiet yet implacable disappointments, in love, in family life and in factional communities, and it is testimony to O'Brien's supreme mastery of the short story format that so little happens
Guardian: Costa adds short story award to its books prizes
[The Guardian] - "A Costa for short stories could represent a breakthrough moment," said Lee Brackstone, publishing director at Faber & Faber and editor of Edna O'Brien's collection Saints and Sinners, which won last year's Frank O'Connor prize.
‘Country Girl: A Memoir’ by Edna O’Brien - The Washington Post
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Edna O'Brien, for whom the word “redoubtable” may well have been coined, has lived a long and quite remarkable life. Now 82 years old, the ...
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