Having launched her literary career in scandal and outrage, she was revered by readers — and, in time, her homeland — as a charismatic change-maker
New drama staged in Dublin examining the novelist’s female relations brims with energy but is uneven
The revered Irish novelist on #MeToo, her latest novel ‘Girl’ and making peace with her homeland
This impeccably written novel lays bare the trauma of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
She battled her mother, a country and a religion to put female sexuality on the page. Now 86, the great Irish writer warns: ‘For all my affability, I am also cold’
Set in the present but drawing on myth, the novel reflects on the pervasiveness of evil and the possibility of hope
A novelist describes her life of parties and Proustian prose
