“Writers should be applauded for
their ability to make things up.” – Emma Donoghue
While she’s talking
about her fiction, Donoghue’s also written a number of great essays and nonfiction works
and earned plenty of applause for her stage and screen adaptations as well.
Born on this date in 1962,
the Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter
is perhaps best known for her novel Room, a finalist for the
prestigious Man Booker Prize, the book was both an international best-seller and Academy
Award-nominated movie (for which she wrote the
screenplay).
Donoghue was born in Ireland
but makes her 
home in Canada, has written one award winner after another – nearly two dozen
books in all –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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