Emma Donoghue: In Conversation with Janice Zolf

The Words Festival is very pleased to present a visit with internationally acclaimed author Emma Donoghue, who joined us on the 5th anniversary of the Words Festival to talk about her latest book.
Emma also received the first Words Award to recognize significant contributions to the literary and creative arts of London, Ontario.
Emma Donoghue: In Conversation with Janice Zolf
2 November 2018
Museum London, London, Ontario
Born in Dublin in 1969, EMMA DONOGHUE is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Room sold more than two million copies and won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue's fiction ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Haven, Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less.