Author · born 1969
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue (born 1969) is an Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian. Born in Dublin.
Our catalogue lists 8 books by Emma Donoghue, mostly sapphic fiction, historical fiction and LGBTQ+ young adult fiction. They span 1993 to 2014. The most-read is Kissing the Witch (1993).
Books by Emma Donoghue
Kissing the Witch
Emma Donoghue
Frog Music
Emma Donoghue
Slammerkin
Emma Donoghue
The Sealed Letter
Emma Donoghue
Hood
Emma Donoghue
Inseparable
Emma Donoghue
The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories
Emma Donoghue
Love Alters
Emma Donoghue
Awards
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2011 — LGBT Non-fiction, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2009 — Lesbian Fiction, The Sealed Letter (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 2009 — Lesbian Fiction (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2008 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2007 — Lesbian Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2006 — Lesbian Poetry, Life Mask (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2005 — Lesbian Fiction, Life Mask (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2005 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2004 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2000 — Anthology (Fiction), Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1998 — Lesbian Poetry, Poems Between Women (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1995 — Lesbian Fiction, Sir Fry (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1994 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1997 — Overall (nominee)
Biography
Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.