Claim: Emma Donoghue is the screenwriter of Room.

Emma Donoghue -LRB- born 24 October 1969 -RRB- is an Irish-Canadian playwright , literary historian , novelist , and screenwriter . Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller . Donoghue 's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award . and Slammerkin -LRB- 2000 -RRB- won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction . Room was adapted into a film of the same name , for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay .