Emma Donoghue
- Writing
- October 1, 1969 · Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. 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.
Known for
Filmography
- H Is for Hawk · Writer
- The Wonder · Executive producer, Novel
- Making “Room” · Self
- Room · Novel, Screenplay
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom · Director
- Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders · Pamela Taylor