Edna O'Brien (born 1930), Irish the author of award-winning novels, plays and short stories, is considered one of the greatest chroniclers of women's experience in the twentieth century . Because of the revolutionary depictions of female sexuality, her debut novel Provincial girls were banned in Ireland. Her most famous works are Saints and Sinners , August sinful month , The place of origin , etc. Little red chairs , published in 2015, the American writer Philip Roth called her a masterpiece.