President Michael D Higgins among those saluting a ‘superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society’ who has died in London at 93
Edna O'Brien: 'One of the first writers to provide a true voice to the experiences of women in Ireland.' Photograph: Alan Betson
“Edna was a fearless teller of truths, a superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society with realities long ignored and suppressed,” Mr Higgins said. “Through that deeply insightful work, rich in humanity, Edna O’Brien was one of the first writers to provide a true voice to the experiences of women in Ireland and played an important role in transforming the status of women.
“Although I’ve known for a while I wouldn’t be seeing her again, I’m heartbroken to hear the news of Edna’s death,” Eimear McBride said. “Her words just burned through me, alive with feeling and beauty and want. To be a body, to be a woman, to suffer and to love, no one wrote of these experiences as she did. She wrote about the hard things honestly and humanely but, above all, beautifully – sometimes even transcendentally.
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