Emma Donoghue
Autor(a) de O Quarto de Jack
About the Author
Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA degree from the University College Dublin and PhD in English from University of Cambridge. Her first novel was Stir. Her next novel was Hood which won the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual mostrar mais Book Award for Literature. Her novel Slammerkin was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Sealed Letter, published in 2008, is a work of historical fiction. This work was the joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She continued writing several award winning novels including Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in September 2010. Some of her other works include Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, and Frog Music. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Emma Donoghue © Mark Raynes Roberts, 2015.
Séries
Obras por Emma Donoghue
The Widow's Curse 2 exemplares
Since First I Saw Your Face 2 exemplares
Prevtelenie 1 exemplar
Vanitas 1 exemplar
The Tale of the Skin 1 exemplar
Donoghue, Emma Archive 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are (2003) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Thicker Than Water: Coming-of-Age Stories by Irish & Irish American Writers (2001) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century (Fairy-Tale Studies) (2021) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Out of Line: Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-10-24
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland (Birth)
Canada - Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ireland
London, Ontario, Canada
England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- University College Dublin (BA)
University of Cambridge (PhD) - Ocupações
- playwright
novelist
literary historian
teacher
scriptwriter - Relações
- Donoghue, Denis (father)
Roulston, Christine (life partner)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, I am the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). I attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 I earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin (unfortunately, without learning to actually speak French). I moved to England, and in 1997 received my PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. From the age of 23, I have earned my living as a writer, and have been lucky enough to never have an ‘honest job’ since I was sacked after a single summer month as a chambermaid. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 I settled in London, Ontario, where I live with Christine Roulston and our son Finn (12) and daughter Una (9).
Membros
Discussions
May 2019: Emma Donoghue em Monthly Author Reads (Junho 2019)
Room by Emma Henderson em Orange January/July (Junho 2012)
Críticas
Slammerkin por Emma Donoghue
Wow, was not expecting that ending. Holy cow.
Set in San Francisco during the 1876 heatwave and smallpox epidemic, this is a story based loosely on known historical fact. Our heroine is Parisian-born Blanche, exotic dancer and prostitute, who lives with her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. The other star of the story however is Blanche's new friend Jenny, eccentric rider of a penny-farthing, who dresses in male clothing and catches frogs for a living. And P'tit, baby P'tit.
This is a racy portrait of life in a sleazy city, one where crime is part of everyday life. It's a murder mystery too - a murder which wasn't solved at the time and is not entirely satisfactorily solved in this version of events.
I should have enjoyed this book. It wears its scholarship lightly, and the main characters are engagingly interesting. The references to popular music are entertaining. I guess I felt some very serious editing wouldn't have come amiss. 300 pages would have seen this story told and told well. I'm rather glad to have made it to the end.… (mais)
This is a racy portrait of life in a sleazy city, one where crime is part of everyday life. It's a murder mystery too - a murder which wasn't solved at the time and is not entirely satisfactorily solved in this version of events.
I should have enjoyed this book. It wears its scholarship lightly, and the main characters are engagingly interesting. The references to popular music are entertaining. I guess I felt some very serious editing wouldn't have come amiss. 300 pages would have seen this story told and told well. I'm rather glad to have made it to the end.… (mais)
An unsettling, moving book. It's told in the voice of 5 year old Jack, who lives with his mum in a locked room, 11' x 11'. He's never seen another human being: and his mum, besides Jack, has only seen her captor, who keeps her imprisoned for sex, in seven years. The book describes their day-to-day life with convincing immediacy. It tells how they escape, and how this sudden emergence into the ordinary world brings with it huge difficulties in adjustment. Ma has not lived freely since she was kidnapped aged 19. Jack didn't know there was a world outside to discover, despite his exposure to television. It's tough. Very tough.
This is a moving, convincing and utimately uplifting account of an almost unimagineable life. Well worth reading.… (mais)
This is a moving, convincing and utimately uplifting account of an almost unimagineable life. Well worth reading.… (mais)
The story was fine, but it felt clunky to read. There was a lack of punctuation, giving it the feel of a run on sentence at times.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 39
- Also by
- 31
- Membros
- 30,155
- Popularidade
- #667
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,756
- ISBN
- 560
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 42
