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Emma Donoghue

literary historian, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, writer, film screenwriter

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1969

Emma Donoghue 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. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.

All Quotes by Emma Donoghue

“Are stories true?""No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.”
— Emma Donoghue
“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.”
— Emma Donoghue
“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”
— Emma Donoghue
“I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.”
— Emma Donoghue
“Ma: You're gonna love it.Ma: The world.”
— Emma Donoghue
“I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.”
— Emma Donoghue