![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't know I'd miss fields and roads and winds and trees and dogs and donkeys. I didn't know how much I would miss things I wasn't even fond of. "I had left Ireland, a country that at the time I had very much wanted to leave, and yet a grief of having been separated from my own country possessed me. ![]() They also discussed O'Brien's portrait of English Romantic poet Lord Byron, called Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life. In 2009, Eleanor Wachtel spoke to Edna O'Brien about her first novel and the backlash that followed its publication, as well as The Light of Evening, which revisits her connection to her country and her mother. Despite the controversy, she continued to write provocative, passionate literature, all of it infused with the texture and atmosphere of Ireland. Following the intimate lives of two young women, the book was banned in Ireland for sexually explicit content and was burned by O'Brien's parish priest. Starting in 1960 with her first novel, The Country Girls, O'Brien's writing opened up a new chapter in modern Irish literature. absolute perfection of prose," and for her acclaimed body of work, which "broke down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond." The committee recognized O'Brien for her "powerful voice and. Legendary Irish writer Edna O'Brien is the 2018 winner of the prestigious PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |