# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emma-donoghue
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:40.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emma-donoghue"
name: "Emma Donoghue"
slug: "emma-donoghue"
description: "Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians."
tagline: "Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irish-Canadian_author_Emma_Donoghue.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.09
  momentum:             0.2446425184904229
  historical:           23.394472
  currentAttention:     6.000000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "EDonoghueWriter"
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    handle:    "67259541155"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اما داناهیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Emma Donoghue"
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    title: "Донохью, Эмма"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ема Донахју"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump