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Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
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Birth
1969
Death
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First book
1992
Years writing
34
Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969 and holds dual Irish and Canadian citizenship.
Her most globally recognized work is the novel Room, which she adapted for both film and stage.
Beyond her work as a novelist, she is a literary historian specializing in the eighteenth century.
Her prolific career spans 44 works, including historical fiction, short stories, and children's literature.
After growing up in Ireland and completing her PhD in England, she settled permanently in Canada.