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): A.K. Golam Jilani • Alexander Gelfond • Alice Perry • BD Wong • Brad Sherman • František Čapek • Gibby Mbasela • Ken Utsui • Konstantin Yuon • Mark Tully • Norman Rush • Olo Brown • Peter Gellhorn • Rob Leslie-Carter • Roman Abramovich • Tom Mulcair • Ángel Torres (baseball)

Born in the same month (October 1969): Byron Black • Chris Verene • Dilsa Demirbag Sten • Igor Ulanov • Joseph Patrick Moore • Nelson Vivas • Stephen Moyer • Viktor Onopko • Wyclef Jean