Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian, born in 1969. She is best known for Room, a 2010 novel that was a finalist for the Booker Prize and that she adapted into a film, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her earlier novels include Hood, which won the Stonewall Book Award, and Slammerkin, which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction.