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EMMA DONOGHUE
Emma Donoghue
is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in
Canada
. At 33, she has published five books of fiction,
two works of literary history, two anthologies, and two plays.
Born in
Dublin
,
Ireland
, on
24 October 1969
, Emma is the youngest of eight children of Frances
and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in
Dublin
, apart from one year in
New York
at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class
honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a
PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in
eighteenth-century English fiction) from the
University
of
Cambridge
. Since 1993, Donoghue has earned her living as a
full-time writer. After years of commuting between
England
,
Ireland
, and
Canada
, in 1998 she became a Canadian permanent resident;
she lives in
London
,
Ontario
.
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