Having launched her literary career in scandal and outrage, she was revered by readers — and, in time, her homeland — as a charismatic change-maker
Edna O’Brien, who has died aged 93, described her native Ireland as “a state of mind as well as an actual country”. Over her 17 novels, scores of short stories, plays, memoirs and essays, she diagnosed the state of that mind — and helped it to change. Michael D Higgins, president of Ireland, paid tribute to her on Sunday as “a fearless teller of truths, a superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society with realities long ignored and suppressed”.
Further novels of awakening and disenchantment followed , as O’Brien’s marriage foundered. Meanwhile her fiction, with its insurgent wit and frankness, caught the tide of the times. Bestseller status and film deals added prosperity to renown. Her house in Chelsea became a citadel of 1960s style as celebrities — from Lord Snowdon to Jane Fonda — flowed though the door.
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