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Emma Donoghue Quote

They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you’d drained it you’d be reminded you were going to die someday.

Emma Donoghue

They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you’d drained it you’d be reminded you were going to die someday.

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About Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) 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.