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Your evening longread: Edna O'Brien on turning 90

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle. 

We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.

Edna O’Brien

It’s the legendary Irish writer’s 90th birthday – so here’s a recent interview with her.

(The Guardian, approx 7 mins reading time)

Girl, of which she remains “very, very proud”, was similarly tiring. “I went to Nigeria twice – that was no fun and games. What was terrifying was to try and make a kind of mythic story from all this pain and horror. I spoke to a lot of people – escaped girls, their mothers and sisters, to trauma specialists, doctors and Unicef but then I had to honour the material and the feelings of those girls and their relatives while making it not a fable – there are no lies – but a kind of little myth and some people didn’t understand.” 

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