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Edna O'Brien

1930 - 2024

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Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), has been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland after the Second World War. The book was banned and denounced from the pulpit. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edna O'Brien is the 3,983rd most popular writer (down from 3,756th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 150th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, Edna O'Brien ranks 3,983 out of 7,302. Before her are Shuntarō Tanikawa, Tarabai Shinde, Milovan Glišić, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Chandrashekhara Kambara, and Elia Abu Madi. After her are Dulce María Loynaz, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Janko Matúška, Hjalmar Bergman, Joseba Sarrionandia, and Alfred Kerr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Edna O'Brien ranks 342. Before her are Richard Anuszkiewicz, Wilferd Madelung, Julio Abbadie, Richard C. Sarafian, Henri Coppens, and Adam Darius. After her are Dawn Addams, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Cristóbal Halffter, Roger Vonlanthen, André Lerond, and Bayram Şit. Among people deceased in 2024, Edna O'Brien ranks 277. Before her are Shigeharu Ueki, Daniela Hodrová, Robert Towne, Willi Koslowski, Shuntarō Tanikawa, and John Haglelgam. After her are Frank Auerbach, Paul Morrissey, Gisela Birkemeyer, Denílson Custódio Machado, Michael Verhoeven, and Rosie Reyes.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Edna O'Brien ranks 178 out of 549. Before her are Moya Brennan (1952), Brian McFadden (1980), Peter Woulfe (1727), Seán O'Casey (1880), Enda Kenny (1951), and Barry Fitzgerald (1888). After her are Dorothea Jordan (1761), Yvonne Farrell (1951), John de Robeck (1862), Herbert Brenon (1880), Jack Gleeson (1992), and Alan Cunningham (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Edna O'Brien ranks 24. Before her are Christy Brown (1932), Charles Maturin (1780), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Patrick Pearse (1879), and Seán O'Casey (1880). After her are Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), Brendan Behan (1923), and George Moore (1852).

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