{"id":330,"date":"2021-11-10T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/?p=330"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:22:47","slug":"nov-10-2021-emma-donoghue-shares-her-experience-of-adapting-her-books-room-and-the-wonder-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/2021\/11\/10\/nov-10-2021-emma-donoghue-shares-her-experience-of-adapting-her-books-room-and-the-wonder-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 10 2021 &#8211; Emma Donoghue shares her experience of adapting her books ROOM and THE WONDER to the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;331&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Born in Dublin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma Donoghue<\/a>now lives and writes in Canada. The following is a sampling of her work.<\/p>\n<p>Her 2020\u00a0novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/books\/novels\/the-pull-of-the-stars.html\"><em>The Pull of the Stars<\/em><\/a>\u00a0takes place in a Dublin maternity quarantine ward during the flu pandemic of 1918. By what feat of alchemy can she have timed that?<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/books\/novels\/the-wonder.html\">The Wonder<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2016, a finalist for Canada&#8217;s Giller Prize and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year), portrays a &#8216;fasting girl&#8217; in nineteenth-century Ireland. Adapted as\u00a0a feature film, it will appear\u00a0on\u00a0Netflix in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/books\/novels\/room-the-novel.html\"><em>Room<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2010) was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and has sold over two million copies. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and the lead Brie Larson won\u00a0Best Actress.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Wed Nov 10 2020 on Zoom, 4 &#8211; 5 pm Pacific time<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;331&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Born in Dublin, Emma Donoghuenow lives and writes in Canada. The following is a sampling of her work. Her 2020\u00a0novel\u00a0The Pull of the Stars\u00a0takes place in a Dublin maternity quarantine ward during the flu pandemic of 1918. By what feat of alchemy can she have timed that? The Wonder\u00a0(2016, a finalist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-authors-talks","category-26","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}