“Writers should be applauded for
their ability to make things up.” – Emma Donoghue
While (hopefully) she’s talking
about fiction, she’s also written a number of great essays and nonfiction works
and earned plenty of applause for almost everything she’s done.
Born on this date in 1962,
Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter Donoghue
is perhaps best known for her 2010 novel Room, a finalist for the
prestigious Man Booker Prize, an international best-seller, and the Academy
Award-nominated movie by the same name (for which she adapted the
screenplay).
Donoghue, who was born in Ireland
but makes her 
home in Canada, has written one award winner after another – 17
books in all, including her 2016 psycho-drama The Wonder –since she started
writing at age 23. While many of her
works are “historical fiction,” she’s been hard to categorize – something for
which she’s very happy.
“You know the way there are two
kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like
Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel
Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.”
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