Irish by birth, Donoghue moved to Ontario in 1998 and became a Canadian citizen in 2004. “If they stick in my mind long enough, I think, ‘Oh, I absolutely have to write about that.'” Have much in common: Finn has been as shaped by sociability andįreedom as Jack has by routine and one-to-one time with his mother.“I get hooked by real cases I come across,” she says. It was a help that my own son was five, but it's not like Finn and Jack How did you manage to get so thoroughly into the mind-set of a Prospect of being stuck in a little kid's head might turn some readers off.īut I never feared that Jack would be unable to tell the whole story. Some technical worries about having such a young narrator: I knew the Of Jack's perspective rather than being part of my initial plan. Mores and media, and interrogations of the nature of reality, grew out Say about our world, as a newcomer to it the book's satire of modern I also knew that Jack would have some interesting things to His innocence would at least partly shield readers on their descent into Such a horrifying premise original, involving, but also more bearable: I hoped having a small child narrator would make I never considered any other perspective: letting Jack tell this story was At what point did you decide to tell the story from his perspective? Interview An Interview with Emma Donoghue about her 2010 award-winner, Room.
She has also published four collections of short stories, several plays and screenplays, and a series for middle-grade readers called The Lotterys (2017-2018).
After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner Chris Roulston and their son Finn (15) and daughter Una (11).ĭonoghue is best known for her fiction, which has been translated into over forty languages. From the age of 23, she has earned her living as a writer, and has been lucky enough to never have an 'honest job' since she was sacked after a single summer month as a chambermaid.
She moved to England, and in 1997 received her PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge.
In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin (unfortunately, without learning to actually speak French). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic).
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