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Edna O Brien Biografía y Hechos
Edna O'Brien (Tuamgraney, Condado de Clare, Irlanda, 15 de diciembre de 1930), es una escritora y guionista de cine irlandesa residente en Londres. En su obra destaca la trilogía Las chicas del Campo, La chica de ojos verdes y Chicas felizmente casadas publicada en inglés en los años 60 y traducida al castellano en 2013, 2014 y 2015 en las que narra la historia de Irlanda a través de la vida de sus dos protagonistas, que se enfrentan a una sociedad rural y conservadora marcada por el nacionalcatolicismo en el que las mujeres tienen poco margen para la libertad. Biografía Es la menor de cuatro hermanos. Nació en una pequeña localidad rural del oeste de Irlanda y creció en una atmósfera de nacionalcatolicismo irlandés de los años 40. Su entorno estaba marcado por un padre alcohólico y una madre integrista en la práctica religiosa que consideraba que la escritura era "un camino de perdición"[1] Huyó de este ambiente marchando a estudiar a Dublín donde se diplomó en Farmacia en 1950 y donde trabajó brevemente de boticaria hasta que conoció al escritor Ernest Gébler con quien se casó en 1954. La pareja se instaló en Londres y tuvo dos hijos. Se divorció una década después, en 1964.[1] La trilogía de Kate y Baba En 1960 publicó su primera novela, Las chicas del Campo. O'Brien trabajaba para una editorial londinense leyendo manuscritos y los propios editores que habían visto sus cualidades literarias en sus informes le pidieron que escribiera una novela. En ella narra la historia de Irlanda a través de dos chicas, Kate y Baba, que viven en un país atrasado y represivo especialmente en las zonas rurales, marcado por la censura y la presión de los católicos irlandeses. El libro está escrito en clave autobiográfica. Resultó un escándalo en su país y el párroco de su aldea quemó tres ejemplares en la plaza pública. Fue tildada de enemiga de Irlanda y escritora escandalosa. La novela le proporcionó fama mundial tanto por su calidad literaria como por reivindicar la independencia de las mujeres en un ambiente hostil.[2] La novela se convirtió en la primera entrega de una trilogía completada en los años ochenta con The lonely girl (1962) traducida al español como La chica de ojos verdes[3] y Girls in their married bliss (1964), Chicas felizmente casadas (2015)[4] en el que las dos protagonistas ya casadas y residiendo en Londres sobreviven al desengaño ante la vida marital que no colma sus aspiraciones de felicidad. Además del desengaño en el libro se encuentran también claves sobre la maternidad, la desigualdad de la mujer y la amistad entre las dos protagonistas.[5] Es autora de una obra dramática sobre Virginia Woolf (1980), dos importantes biografías: sobre James Joyce (1999) y sobre Lord Byron (2009). También ha escrito varios guiones de cine para la adaptación de algunas de sus obras: Retorno al pasado (I Was Happy Here, 1966), Salvaje y peligrosa (1972) protagonizada por Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York Tres no caben en dos (2011).[6] Entre los admiradores de su obra encuentran afamados escritores como Philip Roth, la nobel Alice Munro, John Banville o Samuel Beckett.[1] Posicionamientos Conflicto de Irlanda del Norte En 1994 cuando se anunciaba la paz en Irlanda del Norte escribió Ulster's Man of the Dark asegurando que Gerry Adams no quería ver el final de la violencia.[7] Sin embargo también escribió la novela House of splendid isolation planteando que el enemigo no era solo el IRA sino que en la guerra tenían también un papel protagonista los grupos paramilitares protestantes además del ejército británico.[8] Iglesia católica En sus diferentes novelas ha incorporado la crítica a la Iglesia católica, especialmente poderosa en Irlanda. En sus declaraciones ha sido crítica especialmente con la Santa Sede y considera que el problema está en su relación con el poder político y el adoctrinamiento más que con la religión.[1] Premios 1962: Kingsley Amis Award por The Country Girls 1970: Yorkshire Post Book Award (Libro del año) por A Pagan Place 1990: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Ficción) por Lantern Slides 1991: Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italia) por Girl with Green Eyes 1993: Writers' Guild Award (Mejor ficción) por Time and Tide 1995: European Prize for Literature (European Association for the Arts) por House of Splendid Isolation 2001: Irish PEN Award 2006: Ulysses Medal (University College Dublin) 2009: Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature 2010: Shortlisted for Irish Book of the Decade (Irish Book Awards) por In the Forest 2011: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Saints and Sinners[9] 2012: Irish Book Awards (Irish Non-Fiction Book), Country Girl[10] 2018: Premio Nabokov[11] 2019: Premio David Cohen Obra Algunas publicaciones The Country Girls (1960) Tr. Las chicas del campo, Errata Naturae. Madrid 2013 Girl with Green Eyes (1962), primero publicado como The Lonely Girl Tr. La chica de ojos verdes Errata Naturae. Madrid 2014 ISBN 9788415217657 Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) Tr Chicas felizmente casadas Errata Naturae. Madrid 2014 ISBN 978-84-15217-85-5 August Is a Wicked Month (1965). Tr. Agosto es un mes diabólico, Grijalbo, 1972 ISBN 978-84-253-0048-6 Casualties of Peace (1966) The Love Object (1968) A Pagan Place (1970) Tr. Un lugar pagano, Errata Naturae, Madrid, 2017 Zee & Co. (1971) Night (1972). Tr. Noche, Lumen, 1992 ISBN 978-84-264-4901-6 A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974) Mother Ireland (1976) Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977) Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978) Some Irish Loving (1979), traducciones Returning (1982), relatos A Fanatic Heart (1985), relatos The High Road (1988) On the Bone (1989), poesía Lantern Slides (1990), relatos Time and Tide (1992) House of Splendid Isolation (1994) Down by the River (1996) James Joyce (1999), biografía Wild Decembers (1999) In the Forest (2002) The Light of Evening (2006). Tr. La luz del atardecer, Espasa-Calpe, ISBN 978-84-670-2815-7 Byron (2009). Tr. Byron enamorado, Espasa-Calpe, 2009, ISBN 978-84-670-3135-5 Country girl, memoir (2012). Tr. Chica de campo, Errata naturae, 2018 ISBN 978-84-16544-59-2 The Little Red Chairs (2015). Tr. Las sillitas rojas, Errata naturae, 2016 ISBN 978-84-16544-08-0 Girl (2019) Teatro A Pagan Place 1980: Virginia. A Play Family Butchers Triptych 2009: Haunted Colecciones de poesía 1989: On the Bome, ISBN 0-906887-38-0 2009: "Watching Obama", poemas, The Daily Beast[12] Adaptaciones cinematográficas La chica de ojos verdes / Girl with Eyes Green es una película inglesa de 1964 dirigida por Desmond Davis y protagonizada por Peter Finch y Rita Tushingham. Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Edna O Brien. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Edna O Brien
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The Winter Gathering
Deirdre PurcellTradition, friendship, and a little seasonal magic... Deirdre Purcell writes a spellbinding novel in The Winter Gathering, a compelling tale of friendship. Perfect for fans of Mae...
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Blank Pages and Other Stories
Bernard MacLavertyThe extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted shortstory wri...
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The Cupboard
Rose TremainFrom the author of The Gustav SonataWhen Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young j...
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Bluebeard
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard. It is a novel so funny and yet so terribly serious that you will read it then reco...
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The Stepdaughter
Caroline Blackwood & Heidi JulavitsA wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (The Times) debut.A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to e...
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From the Heart
Susan HillA devastating comingofage story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. ...
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The Muse
Nell DunnNobody writes like Nell Dunn... always communally, with rare honesty, with love, and with calm and groundbreaking understanding... It's glorious. Ali Smith The Muse is all it could...
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Smile
Roddy DoyleJust moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. ...
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Remember Me
Sheila WalshScarred by her experiences on the battlefront, Aimée Buchanan, a young doctor, has come home to Liverpool. Exhaustion, fever and a tragic love affair leaves her depressed and apath...
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The Lovers of Pound Hill
Mavis CheekWhen city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her noncountrystyle boots, determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off ...
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Byron in Love
Edna O'Brien«En él, todo era paradójico: era introvertido y extrovertido, guapo y deforme, serio y gracioso, derrochador y mezquino, y poseía una inteligencia deslumbrante enjaulada en la magi...
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The Colour of Milk
Nell LeyshonThe Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon.'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand'The year is eighteen hundred and thi...
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Trilogía Las chicas de campo
Edna O'BrienO'Brien pinta un carrusel riquísimo de personajes en esta trilogía no exenta de humor, una obra que fue prohibida en Irlanda por una Iglesia escandalizada ante la historia de estas...
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The Figure In The Distance
Otto De KatCambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the ce...
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The House of Special Purpose
John BoyneFrom the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible FuriesRussia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior...
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All the Days and Nights
William MaxwellIn settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of t...
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Bodies In Motion and At Rest
Thomas LynchThe facts of life and death remain the same. We live and die, we love and grieve, we breed and disappear. And between these existential gravities, we search for meaning, save our m...
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Last Summer in Arcadia
Deirdre PurcellOne summer changes everything... From the No 1 Irish bestselling author Deirdre Purcell comes Last Summer in Arcadia, a novel of marriage, family and survival. Perfect for fans o...
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An Affair with My Mother
Caitríona Palmer'Incredibly moving' Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker PrizeAn Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for...
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The Forgotten Waltz
Anne EnrightA powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prizewinning author of The Gathering. If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happene...
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Summary of Edna O'Brien's Country Girl
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was in Dublin in the late 1940s, and I was blown away by the city. I was raven...
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State Of The Union
Douglas KennedyA compelling, gripping novel from the No.1 bestselling author of The Moment and The Pursuit of Happiness.Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child t...
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Deadeye Dick
Kurt VonnegutRudolf Waltz's principal objection to life was that it was too easy to make horrible mistakes. He was himself to become a doublemurderer at the age of twelve on Mother's Day. This...
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Two Moons
Jennifer JohnstonIn a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the ...
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Human Capital
Stephen AmidonIt's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant a...
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Children of Eve
Deirdre PurcellWhy would a mother abandon her children? Children of Eve is a moving novel from acclaimed author Deirdre Purcell. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy and Catherine Dunne.'Any novel t...
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The Collected Stories Of Colette
ColetteEdited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'BellaVista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K...
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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction
Maureen O'ConnorSince the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960a book that undermined the nation’s ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhoodEdna O’Brien has provoked controve...
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James and Nora
Edna O'BrienIt was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was twentytwo, and she, Nora Barnacle, ...
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The Midwife's Daughter
Patricia FergusonA BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. The new novel from Orange Prize listed author Patricia Ferguson is a deeply moving tale about two sisters and the young black orphan who changes thei...
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The Doctor's Wife Is Dead
Andrew TierneyA mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime storyIn 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosper...
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A Slanting of the Sun: Stories
Donal RyanFrom the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers, has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power ...
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The Sabotage Café
Joshua FurstAs a young woman in the 1980's, Julia became entangled with the emerging punk scene in Minneapolis in particular with the band Nobody's fool until a mysterious and unspeakable ca...
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Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
Margaret Forster23 February Results rolling in! Algebra, 6th = 74%. Not bad. Latin = 55% Thrilled! History top = 85% smashing! Geography, disgusting, 2nd = 67%. In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordina...
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A Whistling Woman
A S ByattIt is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fastpaced and occasionally bewildering i...
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Shade
Neil Jordan'The time you pass reading Shade is only the start of an experience; this novel will continue to haunt and fascinate well beyond the final page' Sunday IndependentIreland, 1950. Ni...
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Faulks on Fiction (Includes 4 FREE Vintage Classics): Great British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel
Sebastian FaulksThe publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel. British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelli...
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Daniel Deronda
George EliotWith an essay by Barbara Hardy.'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can b...
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Silence Under A Stone
Norma MacMasterSitting alone in her Dublin nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on a life that has become tainted by bitterness and regret. From a strictly Presbyterian community along the Iri...
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Prosperity Drive
Mary Morrissy‘A wonderful writer’ Hilary MantelAll of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed p...
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Irish Wit, Wisdom and Humor
Gerd de LeyOver 1,000 uniquely Irish jokes, puns, and witty observations fit to split anyone’s sides! Take a hilarious tour through Irish history and popular culture, with inimitable insigh...
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Agosto es un mes diabólico Noche
Edna O'BrienEdna O'Brien pone al lector ante el espejo con dos historias llenas de sensualidad y erotismo protagonizadas por dos mujeres en busca de sí mismas.Prohibida en distintos países tra...
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Destiny Of Nathalie X
William BoydThis new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time a...
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Objeto de amor
Edna O'BrienEstos extraordinarios relatos de Edna O'Brien, publicados por primera vez en castellano en una edición a cargo de Marta Orriols, son una muestra brillante de la capacidad de su aut...
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What Are You Like
Anne Enright'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The TimesWhen Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through h...
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Life Sentences
Billy O'CallaghanTHE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of fa...
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The Love Object
Edna O'BrienThe BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Al...
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Prague Nights
Benjamin Black'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the cit...
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Midwinter Break
Bernard MacLavertyA Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year‘Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emot...
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The Pumpkin Eater
Penelope MortimerIn this extraordinary, semiautobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a ...