Julia O'Faolain

1932–2020

Irish novelist, short-story writer and translator, the daughter of the writers Seán Ó Faoláin and Eileen Gould. Born in London and raised in Ireland, she studied at University College Dublin, in Rome and at the Sorbonne, and later lived in France, Italy and the United States. Her first novel, Godded and Codded, appeared in 1970; others include Women in the Wall, The Obedient Wife and Adam Gould. With her husband, the historian Lauro Martines, she edited Not in God’s Image. She died in London in October 2020. No Country for Young Men was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Julia O'Faolain’s life

Works

• No Country for Young Men (1980)

Prizes

• No Country for Young Men — The Booker Prize 1980: Shortlist