Edna O'Brien was born in Co Clare. Her novels include:

• The Country Girls (1960)
• The Lonely Girl (London, Jonathan Cape, 1962 - published in paperback as Girl With Green Eyes, London, Penguin Books, 1964)
• Girls in their Married Bliss (Jonathan Cape, 1963)
• August is a Wicked Month (1964)
• Casualties of Peace (Jonathan Cape 1966)
• A Pagan Place (1971)
• Zee & Co. (1971)
• Night (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972)
• The High Road
• Time and Tide
• House of Splendid Isolation
• Down by the River
• Wild December (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999)
• James Joyce (August 2000)

Her short stories include

• The Love Object & Other Stories (London, Jonathan Cape, 1968)
• A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974)
• Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978);
• A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories (1984)
• Lantern Slides

Her plays are A Pagan Place (London, Faber & Faber 1973 ); Virginia; and Beloved; and an adaptation of Iphigenia written especially for the Crucible Stage in Sheffield (2003).

She has received many awards, including that of the Los Angeles Times; Writers' Guild of Great Britain; European Literature Prize (1995); and the Italia Prima Cavour.

She is a member of Aosdána, and lives in London.

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