Culture That Made Me: Irish author Emma Donoghue selects her touchstones 

Emma Donoghue includes Charles Dickens, Hoop Dreams and Slow Horses among her selections, writes Richard Fitzpatrick 

Emma Donoghue recently published her latest novel, The Paris Express.

Emma Donoghue, 55, grew up in Mount Merrion, Dublin. Her father was the literary critic Denis Donoghue. In 1994, she published her debut novel Stir Fry. She followed it up a year later with Hood, the first of several international literary award-winning books. In 2010, her novel Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; in 2016, her adapted screenplay was nominated for an Oscar. Her latest novel, The Paris Express, is published by Simon & Schuster.

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