Irish author Edna O’Brien, 93, died on July 27 “after a long illness,” according to her publisher. Her work, which was often autobiographical, contained honest depictions of women and lost love. She published her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960, and it was banned in Ireland. She won the Irish PEN lifetime achievement award in 2001 and the PEN/Nabokov award for achievement in international literature in 2018.
