Emma Donoghue – Irish-Canadian novelist, best known for Room and Frog Music. Born in Dublin, she later settled in Canada. Her work spans historical fiction and contemporary drama, with Room–told from a child’s perspective–earning international acclaim and adapted into an Oscar-winning film.
✨ Published her first novel at 25. 📚 Room was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 🎬 She wrote the screenplay herself; the film earned four Oscar nominations. 🎓 Holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge. 🌍 Lives in Canada with her wife and children, openly embracing her LGBT identity. 📖 Writes both historical novels and modern dramas. 🖋️ Grew up enchanted by fairy tales of Grimm and Perrault. 🙃 Quirk: early in her career she sent manuscripts under a pseudonym and was rejected by publishers who later accepted her under her real name. 😄 Amusing: her kids jokingly call Room “the book where mum locked a boy in a closet.”