Donoghue takes scraps of the intriguing true story of Mary Saunders, a servant girl who murdered her mistress in 1763, and fashions from them an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel. Born to a ...
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Growing up in Dublin, author Emma Donoghue sometimes fantasized about what she would wear to the awards ceremony if she ever won the Man Booker Prize. It wasn’t an outsize aspiration for the daughter ...
Not many readers would confuse F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring ’20s with Spanish Flu-ravaged Dublin. Yet there is an undeniably Gatsbyesque moment in Emma Donoghue’s timely and touching new novel, set ...
Our critic on the month’s best releases. By Alida Becker From the dark heart of a misguided follower to the young hand of a diarist whose words outlived her, these novels encompass the full spectrum ...
Writer Emma Donoghue had a strong sense of what her novel Room might be like as a movie, so she wrote a screenplay version before the book was even published. Director Lenny Abrahamson read and loved ...
The harrowing Oscar contender, Room, is author Emma Donoghue’s first screenplay. Here she talks about why she had to write it herself. The uniquely claustrophobic, fixed-POV nail-biter, Room, is Emma ...
Author Emma Donoghue says writing short stories is sort of like falling in love. “It’s almost like sexual chemistry. You can’t fake it. You can get together with the material and hope that something ...
The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara used sparing historical details to create an 18th century love triangle around England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), ...
“The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue is the August selection for IrishCentral’s Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ...
Readers may remember Emma Donoghue for her blockbuster novel Room — the one about a happy little boy growing up in horrifying conditions: Born into captivity. Mom abducted. Where Room was darkness ...
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart ...
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