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Emma Donoghue


Ireland (b.1969)

Emma Donoghueis the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their son and daughter.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Children's Fiction, Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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The Paris Express
 
June 2025

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Out of the Woods
 
Novels
   Stir-Fry (1994)
   Hood (1995)
   Slammerkin (2000)
   Life Mask (2004)
   Landing (2007)
   The Sealed Letter (2008)
   Room (2010)
   Frog Music (2014)
   The Wonder (2016)
   Akin (2019)
   The Pull of the Stars (2020)
   Haven (2022)
   Learned by Heart (2023)
   Fourteen Days (2024) (with others)
   The Paris Express (2025)
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Collections
   Kissing the Witch (1993)
   The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (2002)
   Touchy Subjects (2006)
   Three and a Half Deaths (2011)
   Astray (2012)
   Furies (2023) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Poems Between Women (1997)
   Love Alters (2013)
   Out of the Woods (2025)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Emma Donoghue
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Inviting Interruptions (2021)
Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
edited by
Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
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Loss (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

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Award nominations
2024 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Haven
2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Wonder
2011 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : Room
2010 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Room


Emma Donoghue recommends
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Ripeness (2025)
Sarah Moss
"Tender and rueful, Ripeness is a tale of being a foreigner that moves between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland, finding pain and bliss in both. Working at the height of her mature powers, Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence."
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A Family Matter (2025)
Claire Lynch
"A beautifully written, quiet yet devastating rebuke to an era of cruel prejudice, A Family Matter made me weep like a baby."
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The Boy from the Sea (2025)
Garrett Carr
"A ruefully funny portrait of a dysfunctional family in a struggling town, The Boy from the Sea rings painfully true. I was gripped."

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