Emma in Borderlands: Q&A with Emma Donoghue

Having enjoyed considerable success and admiration among audiences and critics for more than a decade, Emma Donoghue is by now one of the most renowned female voices of contemporary Irish culture. The daughter of acclaimed academic critic Denis Donoghue and Frances, a former Aer Lingus flight attendant, she graduated at University College, Dublin and then left for Cambridge, where she took her PhD in English. She has since proven a very talented novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and literary historian, frequently enjoying the shift from one activity to one other.