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Emma Donoghue
Dublin, Ireland
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 i…
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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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2025
H Is for Hawk
Movie Writer
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2022
The Wonder
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Making “Room”
Movie Self
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2015
Room
Movie Novel
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2007
Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom
Movie Director
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2001
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
Movie Pamela Taylor
