Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

(1969) writer Canada

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Emma Donoghue (born 1969) was a Canada writer.

About Emma Donoghue

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.

Notable works:

Room

Awards:

Stonewall Book Award|Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction|Ferro-Grumley Award|AWB Vincent Literary Award

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