“Writers
should be applauded for their ability to make things up.” – Emma
Donoghue
Born
on this date in 1962, playwright, literary historian, novelist, and
screenwriter Donoghue is perhaps best known for her novel Room, a
finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
A massive international best-seller, Room also was adapted into
an Academy Award-nominated movie.
Since
starting her writing career at age 23, Donoghue has written one award winner
after another – 25 books in all, including her 2016 psycho-drama The
Wonder and her “just on the market” historical fiction book The
Paris Express. Many of her works have been called “historical
fiction,” but 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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