Edna O'Brien was born in Co. Clare in the 1930s. She is a prolific and lauded writer, writing novels, novellas, non-fiction, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, and books for children. Her writing career spans over 45 years, beginning with the first part of the The Country Girls trilogy in 1960, for which she won the Kingsley Amis Award for fiction. In 1995, she was awarded the European Prize for Literature in recognition of her life's work.
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