Canadian · b. 1969
Emma Donoghue was shortlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize for "Room," a novel about a woman and her son held captive in a single room, told from the five-year-old's perspective. The Irish-Canadian author transformed a premise of horror into a story about language, love, and resilience. Donoghue writes historical fiction and contemporary novels with equal skill, often centering women's and queer experience.