Emma Donoghue

pThe youngest of eight children Emma Donoghue was born in Ireland but moved to Canada in 1998 She writes fiction and history as well as drama for radio the stage and screen She is best know for her international bestselling novel emRoomem which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes and was winner of the Commonwealth Rogers Writers Trust and Hughes amp Hughes Irish Novel of the Year awards The film version of emRoomem won the Grolsch Peoples Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 Her 2022 film emThe Wonderemco written withSebastin Lelio and Alice Birchis set in 1862 13 years after the Great Famine An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright played by Florence Pugh is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15day examination over one of their own Anna ODonnell Kla Lord Cassidy is an 11yearold girl who claims not to have eaten for four months surviving miraculously on manna from heaven As Annas health rapidly deteriorates Lib is determined to unearth the truth challenging the faith of a community that would prefer to stay believingbr br These are Emma Donoghuescredits as a screenwriterbr br a hrefhttpemmadonoghuecom targetblank relnoopenerOfficial websitea br br p