Anna Livia Plurabelle: Faber Modern Classics

About James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Rathgar Dublin in 1882. In 1904 he and Nora Barnacle (whom he married in 1931) left Ireland for Trieste. Abroad free from the restrictions he felt in Ireland Joyce felt compelled to write of his native land producing Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916). During World War I he lived in Zurich from 1915 to 1919 and in 1920 moved to Paris where he spent most of the rest of his life. Towards the end of December 1939 James Joyce and Nora Barnacle left Paris for a small village near Vichy and ultimately settled in Zurich where he died in January 1941. His major works pioneering the 'stream of consciousness' style are the novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award the American National Arts Gold Medal the Frank O'Connor Prize the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. In 2021 Edna O'Brien was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She is currently writing a play Joyce's Women for the Abbey Theatre Dublin to mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she has lived in London for many years.