Women of the World: Edna O’Brien

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World Book Club

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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

Society & Culture

Women of the World: Edna O’Brien

World Book Club

26 minutes

1 year ago

Women of the World: Edna O’Brien

In one of the last broadcast interviews, the acclaimed Irish author Edna O’Brien, who died aged 93 in July 2024, is in conversation with Kim Chakanetsa. In this bonus episode, shediscusses her final novel, Girl – which tells the story of a young girl in Nigeria who is captured by the Islamist group Boko Haram – the effects of lockdown and her love of writing and literature from around the world… (Recorded in 2020)