Description: (Novelist)
Emma Donoghue is a versatile Irish-Canadian writer recognized for her achievements in various fields such as playwriting, literary history, novel writing, and screenwriting. She achieved great success with her novel "Room," a Booker Prize finalist and international best-seller. Other notable works by Donoghue include "Hood," which won the Stonewall Book Award, and "Slammerkin," which received the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She also earned the Alex Awards and was an Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film adaptation of "Room."