- Born
- Birth nameJosephine Edna O'Brien
- Edna O'Brien was born on December 15, 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. She is a writer and actress, known for Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966), Girl with Green Eyes (1964) and The Hard Way (1980). She was previously married to Ernest Gebler.
- SpouseErnest Gebler(1954 - 1964) (divorced, 2 children)
- Expatriated to London.
- Mother of writer/director Carlo Gebler.
- Her other son was named Sasha.
- On ambition: In dreams begins responsibility.
- On childhood: What we forget as children is that our parents children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied, met or loved, often. Not always, but very often. Oftener, actually, than is admitted.
- On growth: I am shedding the past. It comes off me like scales.
- On reading: Poetry always goes straight to the marrow.
- On writing: Always, both when I started and now, to me writing is a covert act.
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