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Gerard Beirne
September 16, 2020 7:22 PM
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The Irish-Canadian novelist talks about the hit success of Room and her approach to writing LGBTQ fiction. Her latest, The Pull of the Stars, is on the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.
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Gerard Beirne
September 3, 2019 5:55 PM
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the work is based on the play Trespasses by Emma Donoghue, author of the best-selling novel Room.
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July 10, 2017 10:19 AM
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If Emma Donoghue has done nothing else, she has given an impressive lesson in understanding that art forms are different from each other. Room was an eerie, engaging novel. Now Donoghue
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Gerard Beirne
June 28, 2017 1:39 PM
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Room - Abbey Theatre - Review by Patrick Viale Until July 22nd Following the hugely successful film version of Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel, Room, which won an Oscar for best actress for Brie Larson in the role of Ma, the story has now been adapted for stage by Donoghue and will run in the Abbey…
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Gerard Beirne
April 7, 2017 2:53 PM
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The author talks about her recently published first book for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One
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October 18, 2016 10:27 AM
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The author of Room talks about her new novel, The Wonder.
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September 24, 2016 1:33 PM
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The author of Room discusses the Oscars, writing children’s book and her new novel The Wonder on the Róisín Meets podcast
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September 23, 2016 6:12 PM
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The Wonder doesn’t quite keep up with Room's thunder, but it has the same keen observational power
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September 21, 2016 10:20 AM
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We spoke to Irish-Canadian novelist and playwright Emma Donoghue about claustrophobia, the writing process and her new book.
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Gerard Beirne
September 19, 2016 3:48 PM
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This novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the best-seller “Room,” follows a nurse sent to confirm that an 11-year-old has survived on water for four months.
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Gerard Beirne
November 12, 2015 8:45 PM
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EMMA DONOGHUE’S 2010 novel Room seemed like it was made for me. After all, Room — a formally inventive story about domesticity and sexuality — falls into a category of books I love; what’s more, Room asks us to perform the politically important task of closely examining women’s...
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Gerard Beirne
April 18, 2014 5:31 PM
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A novel triggered by an appalling case of abuse took Emma Donoghue's literary career to new heights. She joins the Guardian book club to talk about the Booker-shortlisted Room Continue reading...
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April 10, 2014 8:02 AM
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IT'S THE stifling hot summer of 1876. And in the shady saloon of the Eight Mile House at San Miguel Station – the most southerly point of San Francisco – a 24-year-old tease by the name
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Gerard Beirne
April 27, 2020 8:23 AM
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The Pull of the Stars is set during the Spanish flu epidmic and features Dr Kathleen Lynn
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Gerard Beirne
July 11, 2018 1:18 PM
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I read my first short story collection when I was in Year 11 at school. It was Scission by Tim Winton, and to this day it is the only Tim Winton book which I can categorically say I enjoyed. I loved t
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June 28, 2017 3:14 PM
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The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage
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June 28, 2017 7:31 AM
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So last night I attended the opening of Emma Donoghue’s Room, the stage adaptation of her 2010 novel which later became an Oscar-winning film. It’s an interesting production, one that allowed me to pull together a lot of thoughts about this year’s Abbey season, while also raising issues in its own right. When the Abbey’s…
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Gerard Beirne
December 7, 2016 2:04 PM
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Why the NP99 and not 100? Because that last spot is reserved for the one we forgot. You’ll think of it soon
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October 16, 2016 6:06 PM
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Fresh off her Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Room, Emma Donoghue returns to her literary roots with a new novel. The Wonder is a wonderfully gothic story about a girl who eats nothing. It's a finalist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Emma Donoghue shares her favourite books Read
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September 23, 2016 6:15 PM
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Miracle, fraud or medical anomaly? A gripping investigation into an Irish girl’s fasting by the writer of Room
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September 21, 2016 10:22 AM
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Part history novel, part Gothic thriller, The Wonder is itself a wonder, brimming with rich historical detail and crackling dialogue.
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September 19, 2016 3:50 PM
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Post-Famine Ireland is the setting for Emma Donoghue’s eerie but disjointed novel
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September 2, 2016 4:19 PM
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By Emma Donoghue, Paul Freedman, Ann Patchett, and more.
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Gerard Beirne
April 21, 2014 10:26 AM
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The breathless voice with the familiar Irish lilt is either in a rush or filled with excitement. (Emma Donoghue probes unsolved murder in new novel: The breathless voice with the familiar Irish lilt is either...
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April 10, 2014 10:35 PM
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As is the case with many novelists with an international profile, Emma Donoghue has more than one editor. Her newest novel, Frog Music—her first since the best-selling Room—was edited by both Judy Clain, editor in chief of Little, Brown in the U.S., and Iris Tupholme, editor in chief of HarperCollins...
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