Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St John Mandel
Born 1979
Comox, British Columbia, Canada[1]
Occupation Author
Language English
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater School of Toronto Dance Theatre
Notable awards Arthur C. Clarke Award
Spouse Kevin Mandel[2]

Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist.[3]

Life

Mandel was born and raised on Denman Island off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She left school at 18 to study contemporary dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York City.[2]

She has written four novels. Her fourth, Station Eleven, is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future in a world ravaged by the effects of a virus and follows a troupe of Shakespearian actors who travel from town to town around the Great Lakes region. It was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction,[4] and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award[5] and the Toronto Book Award.[6] A film adaptation of the novel is in development by producer Scott Steindorff.[7]

Being curious about more than just how often ‘girl’ books appeared; and to understand who was writing these books, and the fate of the ‘girl’ in the title, she analysed Goodreads’ database of books that include the word “girl” in their title. She discovered that the girl is “significantly more likely to end up dead”, if the author of the book is male. [8]

Bibliography

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Emily St. John, Mandel (1979-)". ABC Bookworld. 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Kirch, Claire (9 March 2012). "Emily St. John Mandel: Once a Dancer, Now a Noir Phenom". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Mandel, Emily St. John 1979– --" in Contemporary Authors, v. 301. Gale, 2010.
  4. ↑ Review by S. Nunez, September 14, 2014, O.K., Now It’s Time to Panic Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse New York Times Book Review, 119:37, Retrieved 25 August 2015
  5. ↑ "Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'elegy for the hyper-globalised present'". The Guardian. London. 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  6. ↑ "Emily St. John Mandel wins 2015 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star, October 15, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Best-Seller 'Station Eleven' Acquired by 'Jane Got a Gun' Producer". The Hollywood Reporter. 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  8. ↑ "On the train, gone, or with a tattoo: what happens to all those 'Girls' in book titles?". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  9. ↑ Anders, Charlie Jane (6 May 2015). "Station Eleven Wins This Year's Arthur C. Clarke Award!". io9. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Charles, Ron (2014-10-15). "National Book Awards finalists announced". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  11. ↑ PEN/Faulkner Award. "2015". Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "Baileys women's prize for fiction longlist - in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-26.

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