Podcast: Ep268: Women of the World: Edna O’Brien
August 4, 2024
Author(s): BBC World Service
Podcast: World Book Club
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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)
