"I am quite fast – I have nothing else to do all day and I've never had writer's block," says Donoghue, who has already finished her next two works of fiction. Her short story collection Touchy Subjects, published late last year, was widely praised by reviewers in three countries for the elegance, wit and exactitude of her stories. Her 2001 historical novel Slammerkin, about an impoverished 18th-century Welsh woman (based on a historical character) who longs so much for fine clothes that she commits murder, has become a bestseller in the U.S. Although she has given two readings at Harbourfront and was once nominated for the Journey Prize, she operates largely outside Canadian literary life. Her books are published by Virago Press in England and distributed here by Penguin but she has no Canadian publisher or agent. She may be the most interesting Canadian author you've never heard of. LONDON, Ont.–Extravagantly gifted and astonishingly productive, Emma Donoghue, at just 37, is the author of three books of short stories, four novels, two works of literary history, several radio and stage plays performed in Ireland and is editor of two lesbian-themed anthologies.
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