She would go on to write her graduate thesis on the dynamics in relations between men and women in 18th century fiction. This experience would benefit her and lead to her writing the short story The Welcome. While she was attending school in Cambridge, she lived in a women’s co-op. She is also known for being fluent in French. Post graduate work was done at Girton College, Cambridge. Here she received first class honours upon graduation. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin. So it was a given she would follow to some extent in her father’s footsteps. Her father Denis was a noted academic and literary critic.

Her mother was Frances, and her maiden name was Rutledge. She also wrote a screenplay for the 2001 movie Pluck.īorn in Dublin, Ireland, Donoghue was the youngest of eight children. She has also written a number of short stories, dramas for the stage, and dramas that have received airplay over the radio. She is known as a prolific writer of historical fiction, and continues to write to this day. It was also nominated for three more Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Picture, but was not the winner in any of these categories. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The novel Room was adapted into a feature film, and Donoghue wrote the screenplay for it. She won acclaim from the LGTB community, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction for her 2000 novel Slammerkin. She also won the Stonewall Book Award for her 1995 novel Hood. She is best known for her novel Room, which became an international best seller with over 2 million copies sold to date. Born on October 24, 1969, Emma Donaghue is a well-known, multiple award-winning Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian.

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