Emma donoghue author biography outline
Emma Donoghue
Irish-Canadian writer (born 1969)
Emma Donoghue | |
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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 |
| 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. 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.
Background
Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances (born Rutledge) and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue. 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, Cambridge. While at Cambridge she lived in a women's co-operative, an experience which inspired her short story "The Welcome". Her thesis was on friendship between men and women in 18th-century fiction.
At Cambridge, she met her future wife, Christine Roulston, a Canadian who is now professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. They moved permanently to Canada in 1998 and Donoghue became a Canadian citizen in 2004. She lives in London, Ontario, with Roulston and their two children.
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Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in 18th-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays, as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (THE WONDER, FROG MUSIC, SLAMMERKIN, LIFE MASK, THE SEALED LETTER) to the contemporary (STIR-FRY, HOOD, LANDING). Her international bestseller ROOM was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth and Orange Prizes.
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Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in on October 24, 1969. She is the daughter of Frances née Rutledge and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue, and she is one of eight siblings. She received her first-class honors Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin, in English and French, in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. in English from Girton College, Cambridge. She lived in a women's co-op while at Girton, an experience that inspired her short story The Welcome. Her doctoral thesis focused on friendships between women and men in 18th-century fiction.
At Cambridge, she also met her future partner, Christine Roulston, a Canadian who is now a professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. In 1998, they moved to Canada, and in 2004, Donoghue became a Canadian citizen. The two now live in London, Ontario with their two children, Finn and Una, to whom Room is dedicated.
Donoghue has been supporting herself as a writer from a young age. As her website's biography will tell you, "From the age of 23, I have earned my living as a writer, and have been lucky enough to never have an ‘honest job’ since I was sacked after a single summer month as a chambermaid."
Donoghue published Room in 2010 to critical acclaim. In addition to being shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prize, and winning the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize (Canada & Carribbean Region), among many others, Donoghue adapted the screenplay for the 2015 film of the same name. As her biography describes, "it was my first feature film, and I was shortlisted for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Bafta for Best Adapted Screenplay. I have a variety of other projects (adaptations of my own and others' works of fiction and memoir, as well as original screenplays) in development for film and television."