Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. At 35, she has published four novels, two books of short stories, 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 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.

Fiction

Donoghue is best known for her fiction, which includes two contemporary Dublin novels, Stirfry (1994) and Hood (1995, winner of the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Award); a sequence of re-imagined fairytales (published for adults in the UK and for the YA market in the US) called Kissing the Witch (1997, shortlisted for the James L. Tiptree Award); a historical novel inspired by an eighteenth-century murder, Slammerkin (2000, winner of the 2002 Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction, and a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Fiction Prize); a sequence of historical short stories, THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO RABBITS (2002); and LIFE MASK (2004), which tells the startling true story of a scandalous love triangle in 1790s London.  Her novels have been translated into Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew and Greek, and she is a four-times Finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards.

Drama

Donoghue writes drama both for the stage and for radio. Her first play, I Know my Own Heart (1993), was inspired by the decoded diaries of a Regency Yorkshirewoman, Anne Lister, and was premiered by Dublin's Glasshouse Productions in 1993; it was published in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, edited by Cathy Leeney. Glasshouse and the Irish Arts Council commissioned Donoghue to write Ladies and Gentlemen, a play with songs about 1880s vaudeville stars, which premiered in 1996 and was published by New Island Press in 1998; the first US production was by Outward Spiral Theatre in Minneapolis, 1999. Donoghue's adaptation of her fairy-tale book, KISSING THE WITCH, premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre on 9 June 2000 and received its first Canadian production at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto in March 2002.

Donoghue's radio plays are Trespasses (1996, about a seventeenth-century Irish witch trial) for RTE (Ireland), and Don't Die Wondering (2000, a romantic comedy set in a small Irish town), EXES (2001, a series of five short plays about getting on with your ex), and Humans and Other Animals (2003, a series of five short plays about pets), all for BBC Radio 4. 

Literature history

Emma Donoghue is also known as a literary historian; her work includes Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 (1993) and We Are Michael Field (1998, a biography of a pair of Victorian women writers). She has edited two anthologies, What Sappho Would Have Said (U.S. title Poems Between Women, 1997) and The Mammoth Book Of Lesbian Short Stories (1999).

She has 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, and a shareholder of the National Theatre of Ireland. Emma Donoghue is a member of the Society of Authors, the Writer’s Union of Canada, and the Playwright’s Guild of Canada.

艾玛•窦纳修是居住在加拿大的爱尔兰作家，曾多次获奖。今年35岁的她已经发表了四部小说，两本短篇故事集，两部文学史作品，两部诗选以及两部剧本。

艾玛于1969年10月24日出生于爱尔兰都柏林市，是丹尼斯•窦纳修和弗郎西丝•窦纳修夫妇八个孩子中最小的。她早年就读于都柏林的天主教女修道院学校，十岁到纽约住了一年。1990年，她以优异成绩获得都柏林大学颁发的英语法语文学学士学位，1997年获得剑桥大学颁发的哲学博士学位，研究主题是18世纪英国小说中男性和女性的交友观念。从23岁开始，她就作为专职作家进行写作而谋生。在经过多年的英国，爱尔兰和加拿大的三地奔波后，1998年以来她定居在安大略湖畔的伦敦市，与她的情人和儿子住在一起。

小说：
窦纳修最著名的作品是她的小说，其中包括她的两部当代都柏林小说，Stirfry (1994) 和Hood（1995，获美国图书馆联合会同性恋题材书籍奖）；一系列的重构童话故事合集，名为《亲吻女巫》（1997，James L. Tiptree 奖候选书，该书主要针对英国的成人市场和美国的年轻人市场）；一部基于18世纪的谋杀案的历史小说Slammerkin（2000，2002年度Ferro-Grumley奖最佳女同性恋小说奖，2001年度爱尔兰时报爱尔兰小说奖最佳奖）；历史小故事系列，《生兔子的女人》（2002）；《套模面具》（2004），讲述了发生在十八世纪90年代的伦敦的一个真实的故事：一段不伦三角恋爱。她的小说曾被翻译成荷兰语、德语、瑞典语、西班牙语、加泰罗尼亚语、希伯来语和希腊语。她曾四度进入Lambda文学奖最后角逐名单。

戏剧：
窦纳修还写作了一些舞台剧和广播剧。她的第一部剧本《我知我心》，创作灵感来源于一本重新解码后的日记，其作者安娜•李斯特是一位英国摄政时期的约克夏妇女。这个剧本于1993年由都柏林玻璃房剧团初次公演，并发表于由凯西•里内编辑的《所见与所闻：爱尔兰女性作家的六部新剧》一书中。玻璃房剧团和爱尔兰文学理事会委托窦纳修写了一部有关19世纪80年代杂耍艺人的歌剧，名为《女士们，先生们》。该剧1996年初次公演，1998年由新岛出版社出版；该剧1999年在美国明尼阿波利斯市的外向螺旋剧场第一次公演。窦纳修还将她自己的童话故事《亲吻女巫》改编为剧本，2000年6月9日在旧金山魔幻剧院公演，并于2002年3月由多伦多的萧条时期伙伴出版社首次在加拿大出版。

她的广播剧有：1996年为爱尔兰RTE广播公司写的《罪过》，有关17世纪的爱尔兰审判巫师的故事；为BBC广播公司4频道写的《勿死得困惑》（写于2000年，一个发生在某爱尔兰小镇的浪漫喜剧），《前夫前妻》（写于2001年，5集系列短剧，有关如何与自己的前妻或前夫相处），《人与其他动物》（写于2003年，5集系列短剧，有关宠物）。

文学史：
艾玛•窦纳修还是一位知名的文学史学家。她的文学史作品包括《妇女的受难：1668－1801年的英国女同性恋文化》（1993），《我们是麦克尔•菲尔德》（1998，一对维多利亚时期女性作家的传记）。她还编辑了两部诗选《莎孚会怎么说》（1997年在美国出版的时候，标题为《女性诗歌》），以及《女同性恋短篇故事书丛》（1999）。

她曾经是西安大略大学和约克大学的住校作家，爱尔兰时报的文学奖评委，并且是爱尔兰国家剧院的股东。她如今仍是作家联合会，加拿大作家联合会以及加拿大剧作家同业会的成员。

翻译：邢凡夫　2004-11-27