Emma Donoghue

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.

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  Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

  Self

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  Room

  Novel

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  The Wonder

  Executive Producer

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  H Is for Hawk

  Writer

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  Making “Room”

  Self

• Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

  Pamela Taylor

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  Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom

  Director

• 2025H Is for HawkWriter
• 2022The WonderExecutive Producer
• 2016Making “Room”Self
• 2015RoomNovel
• 2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf
• 2007Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby BoomDirector
• 2001Witness of Truth: The Railway MurdersPamela Taylor