( Adapted from the author's website and Wikipedia. Since Room, Donoghue has published seven books, her most recent released in 2020 -The Pull of the Stars. Donoghue wrote the screenplay, which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Bafta Award. Room spent months on bestseller lists and won the Irish Book Award it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange prize, and the (Canadian) Governor General's Award. In 1994, at only 25, she published first novel, Stir Fry, a contemporary coming of age novel about a young Irish woman discovering her sexuality.ĭonoghue is perhaps best known for her 2010 novel, Room-its popularity practically made her a household name. Doing so enables her to claim that she's never had an "honest job" since she was sacked after a summer as a chambermaid. She lives in London, Ontario, with Roulston and their two children, Finn and Una.ĭonoghue has been able to make a living as a writer since she was 23. They moved permanently to Canada in 1998, and Donoghue became a Canadian citizen in 2004. Her thesis was on the concept of friendship between men and women in 18th-century English fiction.Īt Cambridge, she met her future life partner Christine Roulston, a Canadian, who is now professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Donoghue went on receive her PhD in English from Girton College at Cambridge University. She earned a first-class honours BA from the University College Dublin in English and French (though she admits to never having mastered spoken French). Other than her tenth year, which she refers to as "eye-opening" while living in New York, Donoghue attended Catholic convent schools throughout her early years. She is the daughter of Frances ( nee Rutledge) and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue.
Currently-lives in London, Ontario, CanadaĮmma Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, the youngest of eight children.Education-B.A., University College Dublin Ph.D., Cambridge University.Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels-a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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