Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian, and novelist. Her 2010 internationally bestselling novel, Room, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Irish Book Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Emma recently adapted Room for a film, to be released in 2015. Her most recent work is the 2014 novel Frog Music.
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