Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (2015)

Emma Donoghue (born October 24, 1969 in Dublin ) is a Canadian writer of Irish origin.

Life

Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin, the youngest of eight children; her father is the literary critic Denis Donoghue. She received a BA from University College Dublin (in English and French) and a Ph.D. (English) from Cambridge University . In 1998 she moved to London , Ontario , where she lives with her partner and children. She acquired Canadian citizenship in 2004.

Awards (selection)

• 1997 Stonewall Book Award (Fiction) for Hood
• 2006 Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian literature for Slammerkin
• 2008 Lambda Literary Award for The Sealed Letter
• 2010 Irish Book Award (best novel) for Room
• 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Best Canadian Novel of the Year for Room
• 2011 Stonewall Book Award (non-fiction) for Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
• 2013 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2016 AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award
• 2017 Book Fair Prize in Hamburg

Works

Novels

• 1994 Stir Fry.
  • Übers. Gabriele Weber-Jarić: Tender vegetables, spicy . Econ, Düsseldorf 1996 ISBN 3-612-27248-9
  • Neuübers., Same translator: When Maria found love in Dublin. Novel. Edited by Andrea Krug. Publishing house Krug & Schadenberg, Berlin 2017
• 1995 Hood.
• 2000 Slammerkin.
  • Übers. Armin Gontermann: The red ribbon . Novel. Piper, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-492-05522-2
• 2004 Life Mask.
• 2007 landing.
  • Übers. Adele Marx: Delicate landing. Novel. Krug & Schadenberg , Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-930041-90-9
• 2008 The Sealed Letter.
• 2010 Room.
  • Übers. Armin Gontermann: Space . Piper, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-492-05466-9
• 2014 Frog Music.
• 2016 The Wonder.
  • Übers. Thomas Mohr: The miracle. Wunderraum, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-336547-88-3

Narratives (selection)

• 1997 Kissing the Witch
• 2002 The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
• 2006 Touchy Subjects

Stage plays

• 1993 I Know My Own Heart
• 1996 Ladies and Gentlemen
• 2000 Kissing The Witch
• 2005 Don't Die Wondering
• 2011 The Maeve Brennan Project

Radio plays

• 1996 Trespasses
• 2000 Don´t Die Wondering
• 2001 exes
• 2003 Humans and Other Animals
• 2003 mix

Scripts

• 2001 Pluck (short film)
• 2015 space

Non-fiction

• 1993 Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801
• 1998 We Are Michael Field
• 2010 Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

As editor

• 1997 What Sappho Would Have Said
• 1999 The Mammoth Book Of Lesbian Short Stories

Web links

Commons : Emma Donoghue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Emma Donoghue
• Literature by and about Emma Donoghue in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emma Donoghue in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Emma Donoghue in the Internet Movie Database (English)