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About Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.

Emma Donoghue writes about Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Lesbians, History, Fiction, historical, general, and Fiction, historical. Their best-known work is Room.

On FindMyTBR we track 19 books by Emma Donoghue, 18 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Akin, Astray, and Frog Music. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.