Topic: “From ROOM to THE WONDER: Navigating the novel and the screenplay.”

Emma is best known for her fiction both historical and contemporary. Her seventh novel, Room, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth (Canada and Caribbean) Prize, going on to sell over two million copies. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Bafta Award. The film also won the 2015 TlFF People’s Choice Award, and numerous Canadian Screen Awards, including best adapted screenplay.