Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her novels include two contemporary lesbian stories, Stir-fry (1994) and Hood (1995), which won the Stonewall Book Award, Kissing The Witch (1997), a collection of historical short stories, The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits (2002) two historical novels, Slammerkin (2000) and Life Mask (2004) and literary history "Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture (1993) 1668-1801". A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A lesbian is a girl or woman who is aesthetically, sexually, or romantically attracted to other women. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sponsored by the American Library Associations Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, The Stonewall Book Awards are the first and most enduring awards for GLBT books. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Born in Dublin, Ireland, on 24 October 1969, Emma is the youngest of eight children. 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 the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her lover and their son.** WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Albany New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi  (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Nickname: The Forest City Established: 1826 (as village) 1855 (as city) Area: 421. ...

Her latest book, TOUCHY SUBJECTS (2006), is a set of nineteen stories about social taboos that moves between contemporary Ireland, Britain, France, Italy, the US and Canada.**

Novels: - Stir Fry - Hood - Slammerkin - Life Mask

Collections:

- Kissing the Witch - The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits - Touchy Subjects

Drama - Stage:

- I Know My Own Heart - Ladies and Gentlemen - Don't Die Wondering

Drama - Radio:

- Trespasses - Exes - Humans and Other Animals - Mix

Screenplays:

- Pluck

Literary History:

- Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 - We Are Michael Field - What Sappho Would Have Said - Poems Between Women - The Mammoth Book Of Lesbian Short Stories

Miss Donoghue has also taught creative writing for the Cheltenham Literary Festival and the Arvon Foundation, been a writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario and the University of York, been a judge for the Irish Times Literature Prizes, the co-presenter of a primetime literary series on Irish television, and a shareholder of the National Theatre of Ireland. Emma Donoghue is a member of the Society of Authors, and the Writer’s Union of Canada.** The University of Western Ontario is a public, non-denominational university located in London, Ontario, Canada. ... This article is about the British university. ... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ... A poster for the opening run at the Abbey Theatre from 27 December, 1904 to 3 January, 1905. ... The Society of Authors (UK) was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights (with particular attention to copyright protection and, later, the establishment of Public Lending Right. ...

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

- LANDING - a contemporary love story about emigration, set in Ireland and Canada; it will be published by Harcourt and Virago in 2007.

Emma Donoghue is considered one of the 'Four' - Along with Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters and Ali Smith - of British/European-born lesbian writers who have been steadily energizing and creating mainstream interest in gay/lesbian literature. Jeanette Winterson (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. ... Sarah Waters (born in Wales, 1966) is a British novelist. ... Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working class parents. ...

**www.emmadonoghue.com