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Emma Donoghue. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, I am the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). I attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten.
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Emma Donoghue. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, I...
- Anthologies
Anthologies edited by Emma Donoghue. Including: The Mammoth...
- Radio
Mix (BBC Radio 3, 5 November 2003), an hour-long play about...
- Short Story
Collection of short story books written by Emma Donoghue....
- Slammerkin
Slammerkin (London: Virago, 2000, reissued 2012; New York:...
- Akin
Akin (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada;...
- Haven
Haven (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins...
- Landing
Landing (New York : Harcourt, 2007). A contemporary love...
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Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. [5] The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances (born Rutledge) and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue. [1] [5] [6] She has a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin (in English and French) and a PhD in English from Girton College ...
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The youngest in a family of eightchildren, Donoghue is the product of a determinedly literary Irish Catholicfamily. Her parents are Denis Donoghue, Henry James Professor of Letters at NewYork University, and Frances Donoghue née Rutledge, a teacherof English. Named in homage to Jane Austen's Emma, Donoghue wasexposed from early childhood to a range...
Donoghue has created close andproductive ties with Canada and its literary community. She relocated fromCambridge, UK, to Canada in 1998 to join her companion and partner, Christine Roulston,a professor of Women's Studies, Feminist Research and French atthe University of Western Ontario. The couple resides in London, Ontario, with their two childre...
Donoghue's public career began inearly youth, when she was already considered a literary sensation. While ateenager she was writing poetry,her original interest, and maintaining (with an early eye to fame) a carefullypreserved record of her writings in a series of bound books, titled, in largebold letters: EMMA DONOGHUE: THEWORKS. Donoghue felt des...
The thematic underpinnings of herwritings are often inspired by actual historical events and personages. Oneof her most spectacular and popular achievements is We Are MichaelField(1998), the first historical and literary biography since the1920s of the Victorian collaborative writers and lovers (as well as aunt andniece), Katherine Bradley and Edit...
More recently, as in Room (2010),Donoghue balances the sensationalistic turn of her imagination with the moreconservative theme of motherhood, one of her newer interests and personalthemes. Yet most of her plots and characters are inspired by real case studies,whether from police records and newspapers or the lesbian popular press. Roomwas inspired...
In 2017, Donoghue published her firstchildren’s book, The Lotterys Plus One, written for middle-gradereaders aged 8 to 12 and illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono. Set in arambling old mansion called Camelottery, the narrative includes gay parents(the “hippy-dippy Lotterys”), their home-schooled brood of seven children, andthe tests they all face wi...
Donoghue’s body of work hasintroduced a fresh, if sometimes startling, voice in modern fiction produced bywomen. While her fantastic and gripping subject matter may not be to everyone'stastes, Donoghue has extended the boundaries of women's writing in the 20th and21st centuries, while also redefining standards of literary success. As ameasure of he...
Stonewall Book Award (Hood), (1997)Ferro-Grumley Award for LesbianFiction (Slammerkin), (2002)Stir-Fry(1994)Hood(1995)Kissing the Witch(1997)Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel (1999)Sep 27, 2010 · The captivating novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue is matter-of-factly narrated by a 5-year-old named Jack. The setting is an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother -- and...
Nov 18, 2022 · Her parents, Evan and Hannah Jacob, soon joined in on the ruse and publicly claimed she had taken no food or water for two years. The story quickly spread and Sarah soon became a national phenomenon. However, six nurses were sent to test the theory, they watched Sarah for five days, after which time, Sarah had died.
Aug 10, 2023 · Bombazine hovers at the edge of everything. At the heart of this story is 14-year-old Eliza Raine, the orphaned daughter of an unmarried Indian mother and a British father, who came to...
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Nov 22, 2019 · Why Emma Donoghue wanted to write about family, generation gaps and the legacy of WW II The Irish-Canadian author talks about telling a story involving a widower and his great-nephew, who uncover...
