Emma Donoghue wins at the Irish Book Awards
Emma Donoghue, a Dublin-born writer now living in London, Ontario was honoured last night at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards where her novel Room won'the Hughes & Hughes Novel of the Year Award. Room, loosely based on the Josef Fritzl case, is narrated by a young boy who lives with his mother in the garden shed where she has been held prisoner for seven years. The novel recently won'the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for this year's Man Booker Prize.
Room is also available in these other formats.
The other titles nominated in the fiction category were:
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
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Just finished the book. Didn’t love it personally….