Emma donoghue books in order6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Emma Donoghue's book tour for her new novel "Frog Music" brings her to Boston College April 9. Reader anticipation has been high for the April 1 release of Donoghue’s eighth novel, “Frog Music,” which makes a dramatic departure from the claustrophobic confines of “Room.” “It’s a murder mystery among lowlifes,” the Irish-Canadian author and literary historian said cheerfully over the phone from London, England, last week, at the start of a book tour that brings her to Boston College’s Fulton Hall Wednesday at 7 p.m. It wasn’t an outsize aspiration for the daughter of Frances (an English teacher) and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic and Henry James Professor at New York University), who named their eighth and youngest child after Jane Austen’s “Emma.”ĭonoghue came strikingly close to winning the prestigious literary honor in 2010 for “Room.” Narrated by 5-year-old Jack, who has lived his entire life imprisoned with his Ma in a single 11-by-11-foot room, the novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prize, translated into 35 languages, and sold more than a million copies worldwide. ![]() Growing up in Dublin, author Emma Donoghue sometimes fantasized about what she would wear to the awards ceremony if she ever won the Man Booker Prize. ![]() ![]() (Punch Photographic, 2013) This article is more than 9 years old. Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. ![]()
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