Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. 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.

24 October 1969

Born on the same birth date (24 October 1969): Arthur Rhodes

Born on the same birth day (24 October): Ahmad Shah of Pahang • Anthony Babington • Doreen Tovey • Ian Dalziel (footballer) • John G. Cramer • John Tuzo Wilson • Malcolm Turnbull • Rafael Azcona • Sonny Terry

Born in the same month (October 1969): Francis Escudero • Gwen Stefani • Janel Moloney • Josef Beránek • Malia Hosaka • Nelson Vivas • President of Nauru • Roy Hargrove • Stephen Moyer