Julia O’Faolain
Julia O’Faolain was born in London in 1932.
Her works include the short story collections We Might See Sights! and Other Stories (London, Faber & Faber, 1968); Man in the Cellar (Faber & Faber, 1974); and Daughters of Passion (London, Penguin, 1982). Her novels include Godded and Codded (Faber & Faber, 1970); Women in the Wall (Faber & Faber, 1975); No Country for Young Men (Allen Lane, London 1980); The Obedient Wife (Allen Lane, London 1982); The Irish Signorina (Viking, London 1984); and The Judas Cloth (London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992).
She has edited (with husband Lauro Martines) Not in God's Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians (London, Temple Smith, 1973). As Julia Martines she has translated Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati (edited by Gene Bruckner) (Boston, Little Brown, 1968).
She is a member of Aosdána.
