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Emma Donoghue (born October ) is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian....

Emma Donoghue

Irish-Canadian writer (born 1969)

Emma Donoghue
Donoghue in Toronto on 18 February 2015
Born	October 1969 (age 55) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, playwright, literary historian
Nationality	Irish Canadian^[1]
Partner	Christine Roulston
Children	2
www.emmadonoghue.com

Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) 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.^[2] Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction.^[3]^[4] She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards.

Born in Dublin in , Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the international bestseller Room.

Nine-year-old Catholic schoolgirl Emma Donoghue had her eyes opened to a world of drugs, divorce, sex education and watermelon.

Emma Donoghue (born October ) is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian.

Emma Donoghue is an incredibly prolific writer whose body of work employs a wide range of literary techniques and genres, including historical fiction.

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada.

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.

Background

Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969.^[