2015Winner
Best Writing
Room
Emma Donoghue
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Dublin, Ireland
October 1, 1969
Biography
Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2022Nominee
Best Picture
The Wonder
2025Nominee
Best Writing
H Is for Hawk
Career Highlights
2016Highlight
Best Performance
Making “Room”
2007Highlight
Best Director
Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom
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Room
The Wonder
H Is for Hawk