Author behind Country Girls trilogy scoops $50,000 prize for breaking down ‘social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond’
The Irish novelist Edna O’Brien has been named as the winner of the PEN/Nabokov award for achievement in international literature, for “the absolute perfection of her prose” and her “powerful voice”.
The author of novels including the celebrated Country Girls trilogy, O’Brien has, said PEN, broken down “social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond” with her writing. The $50,000 Nabokov prize was created in partnership with the Vladimir Nabokov literary foundation, and awarded for the first time last year, to the Syrian poet Adonis. It is intended to reward “a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents the highest level of achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship”. This year’s judges, who chose O’Brien, were Michael Ondaatje and Diana Abu-Jaber.
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