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by Emma Donoghue ·
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O Quarto de Jack es una novela de 2010 de la autora irlandesa-canadiense Emma Donoghue. La historia está contada desde la perspectiva de un niño de cinco años, Jack, que está retenido en una pequeña habitación junto con su madre. Donoghue concibió la historia después de escuchar sobre Felix, de cinco años, en el caso Fritzl. La novela fue preseleccionada para el Orange Prize 2011 y ganó el premio regional del Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 (Caribe y Canadá). Fue preseleccionada para el Booker Prize en 2010 y para el Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2010 y los Governor General's Awards 2010.

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.