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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]
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.
A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined.
Emma Donoghue. Born in Dublin in 1969, I am an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, playright, and historian, living in Canada with my family. My next novel The Paris Express, inspired by an 1895 French railway disaster, comes out in March 2025.
- Early Lifeand Education
- Dualcitizen
- Early Career
- Historical Fiction and Biography
- Room
- Children’s Literature
- Characteristic Style
- Awards
- Works
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)May 12, 2020 · Emma Donoghue on Writing About the 1918 Spanish Flu - The Atlantic. Books. Emma Donoghue Talks About Her New Novel, The Pull of the Stars. “An epidemic is a narrative gold mine: It ups the stakes...
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Novelist Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin, and is most widely known for her international bestseller, Room. An Irish emigrant twice over, she spent eight years in Cambridge, England before moving to Canada’s London, Ontario.
