WRITER

Emma Donoghue

1969 - Today

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Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emma Donoghue has received more than 1,071,409 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Emma Donoghue is the 6,723rd most popular writer (down from 6,000th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 54th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 46.89

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emma Donoghue ranks 6,723 out of 7,302. Before her are Gregory Colbert, Kage Baker, Thomas MacDonagh, Nayantara Sahgal, Sibylle Berg, and Pınar Selek. After her are James Gleick, Ángeles Caso, Judith Miller, Lawrence Wright, Robert Rodat, and Éliette Abécassis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Emma Donoghue ranks 606. Before her are Michael von Grünigen, Sergio Berti, Paul Lambert, James DeMonaco, Hideki Noda, and Alex Webster. After her are Gabriella Paruzzi, Birdman, Éliette Abécassis, Jörg Müller, Kathrin Boron, and Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Emma Donoghue ranks 388 out of 549. Before her are T. P. McKenna (1929), Michelle O'Neill (1977), Elaine Cassidy (1979), Con Leahy (1876), Allen Leech (1981), and Thomas MacDonagh (1878). After her are Padraic Colum (1881), Sandie Jones (1954), Steve Heighway (1947), Packie Bonner (1960), Pat Condell (1949), and Sally Rooney (1991).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Emma Donoghue ranks 54. Before her are Terence MacSwiney (1879), Patrick Kavanagh (1904), Marian Keyes (1963), Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906), James Mason (1849), and Thomas MacDonagh (1878). After her are Padraic Colum (1881), Sally Rooney (1991), Michael Davitt (1846), Claire Keegan (1968), Anne Enright (1962), and William Allingham (1824).

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