Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist, best known for the award winning Station Eleven. Mandel studied contemporary dance at The School of Toronto Dance Centre and the nature of performance was a key strand of her 2014 novel Station Eleven, a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which a band of travelling Shakespearean actors play a key part. Station Eleven was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. Mandel’s other novels are less explicitly fantastical, taking in elements of crime fiction and the mystery novel.