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Emma Donoghue. Born in Dublin in 1969, I am an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, playright, and historian, living in Canada with my family. My next novel The Paris Express, inspired by an 1895 French railway disaster, comes out in March 2025.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, I am the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic, Henry James Professor at New York University).
Haven is Donoghue’s fourteenth novel (and eighteenth book of fiction) and was a bestseller in Canada and Ireland on publication. It was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A personal note: This novel was inspired by a boat trip around the Skelligs in 2016.
The Pull of the Stars (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; London: Picador, 2020). Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love.
Part childhood adventure story, part adult thriller, Room is above all the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read. Emma Donoghue has stared into the abyss, honoured her sources and returned with the literary equivalent of a great Madonna and Child. This book will break your heart." – Irish Times
Although working in many genres, Emma Donoghue is best known for her fiction writing, which has been translated into over forty languages.
‘The stories in Emma Donoghue’s collection Astray are so compelling they are almost guilty pleasures. Literary fiction is not supposed to be so naked in its appeal to curiosity.’ – National Post
Stir-fry (1994) My first novel, Stir-fry is a coming-of-age story about Maria, a seventeen-year-old girl from rural Ireland who goes to university in Dublin and accidentally moves in with a lesbian couple. A Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Collection of short story books written by Emma Donoghue. Includes Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, Touchy Subjects, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Kissing the Witch.
Visually arresting and emotionally rich, Emma Donoghue’s Room is boldly realised for the stage … harrowing … astonishingly moving. - Toronto Star 'Emma Donoghue's adaptation of her novel works beautifully onstage, and the songs capture heightened moments with sensitivity.
