Emma Donoghue, the Dublin-born playwright and historian who was Oscar-nominated herself for scripting Room, here gathers the threads and explains why Lanthimos has honored history by taking ...

The uniquely claustrophobic, fixed-POV nail-biter, Room, is Emma Donoghue’s seventh novel, but it was the first she was determined to make into a film.Fortunately for both filmgoers and fans of ...

The new musical The Wind Comes Over the Sea follows the lives of two Irish immigrants in the 1940s, brought back to life by letters that found their way to author and playwright Emma Donoghue. An ...

Emma Donoghue has broken out of her “Room.” Four years after that bestselling story of a mother and child imprisoned in a garden shed, she’s back with a novel ravenous for space, for people ...

The author of "Room" had planned to publish "The Pull of the Stars," about a Dublin nurse battling the Spanish Flu, in 2021. Along came coronavirus.

Donoghue is no stranger to immigration herself — she's emigrated to two countries in her life: first England and later Canada. She decided to tell the story of the Johnsons as a musical using ...

Most Emma Donoghue fans will have read her best-selling novel Room, about a kidnapped, imprisoned woman and her young child, born and raised in a locked, soundproof backyard shed. Her newest book ...

Emma Donoghue, a writer of protean creativity and restless productivity, has spoken of being motivated by “a feeling of having so many unknown stories to tell.”Stir-fry and Hood, the novels ...

The book tour for Irish Canadian author Emma Donoghue's newest release, "Frog Music," a crime novel rooted in history, is bringing her to Boston College on Wednesday, April 9.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart ...

Nina Subin Emma Donoghue on her upcoming Cleveland appearance: "I'll be talking about mothers in literature, a subject very close to my heart." ...

I suppose I do like to lock people up,” admits author Emma Donoghue.In her devastating Booker Prize-shortlisted 2010 novel Room, the film adaptation of which won Brie Larson an Oscar, the Irish ...