WRITER

Edna O'Brien

1930 - 2024

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Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), has been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland after the Second World War. The book was banned and denounced from the pulpit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edna O'Brien has received more than 1,220,151 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Edna O'Brien is the 3,757th most popular writer (up from 4,022nd in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 167th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 57.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edna O'Brien ranks 3,757 out of 7,302. Before her are John Gray, Girolamo de Rada, Ian Rankin, Hal Clement, Judith Gautier, and Marilyn French. After her are Pyotr Tkachev, Simin Behbahani, Rupert Brooke, Samad Behrangi, Yuli Daniel, and Chögyam Trungpa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Edna O'Brien ranks 302. Before her are Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Clive Revill, Hédi Baccouche, Ilya Glazunov, Vlatko Pavletić, and Sonja Edström. After her are Jack Taylor, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Helen Merrill, Anatoli Maslyonkin, Lothar Wolleh, and Sándor Rozsnyói. Among people deceased in 2024, Edna O'Brien ranks 233. Before her are John Bruton, Muhammed Faris, Paul Alexander, Yukio Kasaya, Damo Suzuki, and Jorge Griffa. After her are Mihaela Peneș, Helen Fisher, Michael Verhoeven, Mísia, Albert S. Ruddy, and Janusz Majewski.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Edna O'Brien ranks 150 out of 549. Before her are Moya Brennan (1952), Robbie Keane (1980), Adomnán (624), Edward Bruce (1275), Ninette de Valois (1898), and Eddie Jordan (1948). After her are Michael William Balfe (1808), Brendan Behan (1923), William Howard Russell (1820), Jane Wilde (1821), Ronnie Drew (1934), and Edward Sabine (1788).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Edna O'Brien ranks 23. Before her are Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), Charles Maturin (1780), John Millington Synge (1871), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and John Boyne (1971). After her are Brendan Behan (1923), Jane Wilde (1821), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), and William Trevor (1928).

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