Clare interviews Edna O'Brien

This year, the Irish author Edna O'Brien has won the country's €35,000 Frank O'Connor prize for her short-story collection Saints and Sinners.

'She is the Solzhenitsyn of Irish life – the one who kept speaking when everyone else stopped talking about being an Irish woman,' said the Irish poet and novelist Thomas McCarthy, who was on the judging panel for this year's award – the world's richest for a short story collection.

Luckily our writer in residence, Clare Wigfall was at the festival to interview her about her career and historic win.