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Emma Donoghue at Okanagan College

Okanagan College - Mar 30, 2011 / 3:10 pm | Story: 61144

</style>   <p style='>Okanagan College Media Release - March 30, 2011</p> <p style='></p><h2>Emma Donoghue<br />visiting Okanagan College</h2><p></p> <p style='> </p> <p style='>Prize-winning fiction author Emma Donoghue will be visiting Okanagan College’s Kelowna campus on Thursday.</p> <p style='>Donoghue, whose work Room earned her the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and a shortlisted nomination for the Man Booker Prize, will be speaking in room E202 in the College’s Centre for Learning from 3 to 4:15 p.m. March 31.</p> <p style='>Room is a tale told by a five-year-old; a boy who has lived his life with his mother in a room that’s 12 feet by 12 feet.His mother was kidnapped seven years prior. If the plot sounds somewhat familiar, there are resemblances to the true story of the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in his basement for more than two decades.</p> <p style='>Admission to hear Donoghue is free, but space is limited and seats will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.</p> </div> </div> <div class="contentfooter"> <p class="backhome"><a href="/">Back to Homepage</a></p> <a class="sfoot1" href="/contactus/report_typo.php?story=61144" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span>Typos</span></a><a class="sfoot2" href="/contactus/news-tips.php"><span>News Tips</span></a><a class="sfoot3" href="https://forums.castanet.net/"><span>Forums</span></a> <div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url="http://www.castanet.net/news/Campus-Life/61144/Emma-Donoghue-at-Okanagan-College" data-title="Emma Donoghue at Okanagan College - Campus Life"></div> <div class="newsletter"> <div class="sfoot4"> <p>Must-Read Stories</p> <span>Get all the day's most vital news with our newsletter, sent every weekday.</span> </div> <div class="mc_embed_signup"> <form action="https://glaciermedia.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=cca0520b5e122304ac86be48e&id=be97587725" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank" novalidate> <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" placeholder="Enter Email Address" required /> <div style="position:absolute;left:-5000px" aria-hidden="true"><input type="text" name="b_cca0520b5e122304ac86be48e_be97587725" tabindex="-1" value="" /></div> <input type="submit" value="Sign Me Up!" name="subscribe" class="button" /> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="crow"></div> <div class="crow"></div><br/><br/> <a href="/news/Campus-Life/" id="newsarchive">More Campus Life articles</a><br/><br/> </div> <div id="rnews"> <div style="width:300px;height:250px;border-radius:7px;overflow:hidden"><a href="https://www.castanet.net/cgi-bin2/stats/clickcounter.cgi?id=233668&cid=353607&region=747" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://x.castanet.net/KelownaSeniorsSloPitchAssoc/24-04/display/KelownaSeniorsSloPitch-Register-MR1b.gif" height="250" width="300" alt="233668"/></a></div><div class="quicklinks" id="related"> <span class="qlheader">Related Links</span> <a class="ql-related-links" href="http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/">Okanagan College</a><br/> <a class="ql-related-links" href="http://ok.ubc.ca/welcome.html">UBC Okanagan</a><br/> <a class="ql-related-links" href="http://ok.ubc.ca/live.html">UBCO TimCam</a><br/> <a class="ql-related-links" href="https://classifieds.castanet.net/cat/text_books2/">Text books for sale</a><br/> </div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="width:300px;height:250px;border-radius:7px;overflow:hidden"><a href="https://www.castanet.net/cgi-bin2/stats/clickcounter.cgi?id=234268&cid=354647&region=748" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://x.castanet.net/CHBA/24-04/display/CHBA-TryATrade-MR1.gif" height="250" width="300" alt="234268"/></a></div><br/><br/> <div class="columnistdisclaimer"> <i>The views expressed are strictly those of the author and not necessarily those of Castanet. 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