A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic ground, to write truthfully, from a place of deep feeling, Faber said in a statement.
Few so concretely and poetically challenged Ireland's taboos on religion, sex and gender. Few wrote so fiercely, so sensually about loneliness, rebellion, desire and persecution.
O'Brien was an unknown about to turn 30, living with her husband and two small children outside of London, when The Country Girls became one of Ireland's most polarizing works of fiction in memory.
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