Recorded on date : November 30, 2020
Edna O’Brien DBE, elected as a Fellow of the RSL in 2011, is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth described her as “the most gifted woman now writing in English’’ and she was awarded The Irish PEN Award in 2001.
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