Similar to her predecessors such as Frank O’Connor and James Joyce, O’Brien’s works were been banned for a time by the highly conservative Irish government.Īfter graduating from primary school in Twamgraney, she went to Galway where she attended convent school. Her novels are known for their sexual candor, evocative descriptions, and portrayal of women’s issues. O’Brien has asserted that her writing is not therapeutic but rather a product of a deeply disturbed psyche. As such, she had a very unhappy childhood and this gave her the impetus and need to write. Her parents never encouraged her to pursue a career in writing as her father followed in the footsteps of profligate Irishmen, while her mother yearned for her younger days when she was a maid in Brooklyn. In O’Brien’s small village, literature was taboo and most of the books that she got to read as a child were loaned by the page. While she loved reading and was writing by the time she was eight years old, she never got an opportunity to write until the family moved to London. She describes her hometown as a small bigoted, fervid and enclosed small village that she hated. She was born in County Clare Ireland in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in the small town of Twamgraney. Edna O’Brien is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and short story author from Ireland.
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