Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969. She writes fiction and history as well as drama for radio, stage and screen. She is best known for her international bestseller Room, short-listed for the Man Booker and Orange prizes and winner of the Commonwealth (Canada/Carribean), Rogers Writers' Trust and Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Awards. Her fiction ranges from contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing and Touchy Subjects) to historical (Slammerkin,… (mehr)