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Emily St. John Mandel

エミリー・セント・ジョン・マンデル

Emily St. John Mandel

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1979-01-01 （Merville, British Columbia, Canada）
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
English
Residence History
Toronto, Ontario, Canada → Montreal, Quebec, Canada → New York City (Brooklyn), New York, USA → Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada

Career

Occupations
Writer, Novelist, Essayist
Active Years
2002-

Education

The School of Toronto Dance Theatre
Contemporary Dance
Country: Canada
Left high school to study contemporary dance

Awards

Prix Mystère de la Critique
2014
Work: The Singer's Gun
Category: Best Foreign Novel
Result: winner
National Book Award (finalist)
2014
Work: Station Eleven
Category: Fiction
Organization: National Book Foundation
Result: finalist
Arthur C. Clarke Award
2015
Work: Station Eleven
Result: winner
Toronto Book Award
2015
Work: Station Eleven
Organization: City of Toronto
Result: winner
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (finalist)
2015
Work: Station Eleven
Organization: PEN/Faulkner
Result: finalist
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (longlisted)
2015
Work: Station Eleven
Result: longlisted
Prix des Libraires du Québec
2017
Work: Station Eleven
Category: Novel Category Outside Quebec
Result: winner
Scotiabank Giller Prize (shortlisted)
2020
Work: The Glass Hotel
Result: shortlisted
Goodreads Choice Awards
2022
Work: Sea of Tranquility
Category: Best Science Fiction
Organization: Goodreads
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Last Night in Montreal

2009 Literary fiction / Noir

Follows a young woman with a secret who drifts between cities and is forced to confront a past she cannot remember.

memoryidentitythe past

The Singer's Gun

2010 Crime / Literary fiction

Anton Waker, raised amid corruption, tries to live honorably but is pulled back into crime when blackmailed by family.

moralityfamilyredemption

The Lola Quartet

2012 Literary noir

A literary noir set after the 2008 crash, following a man searching for an unknown daughter and the mother he thought he knew.

lossfamilyeconomic collapse

Station Eleven

2014 Post-apocalyptic / Literary fiction

Set in a near-future world ravaged by a virus, it follows a traveling Shakespearean troupe and interlinked lives across time.

collapse of civilizationrole of artsurvival and recovery
Adaptations
  • [Television (limited series)] Station Eleven (miniseries) (2021)
Translations
  • Translated into 33 languages

The Glass Hotel

2020 Mystery / Thriller / Literary fiction

A mystery-thriller that intertwines a financial fraud and the lives affected by it.

deceptionlonelinessmorality

Sea of Tranquility

2022 Speculative fiction

Explores time travel and the simulation hypothesis across multiple eras, questioning existence and reality.

timeexistencereality

Bibliography

  • Last Night in Montreal (2009)
  • The Singer's Gun (2010)
  • The Lola Quartet (2012)
  • Station Eleven (2014)
  • The Glass Hotel (2020)
  • Sea of Tranquility (2022)

Adaptations

  • Station Eleven (HBO Max limited series, 2021)

Translations of Works

  • Station Eleven — translated into 33 languages
  • The Glass Hotel — translated into multiple languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Concise, elegant proseInterlocking narratives with multiple perspectives
Recurring Motifs
memory and the pastfragility of civilizationart and performance

Legacy

A widely acclaimed contemporary Canadian author. Station Eleven brought international recognition and an HBO adaptation; her work is noted for exploring art, memory, and the fragility of civilization across speculative and literary forms.

In Popular Culture

  • HBO Max adaptation of Station Eleven (2021)

Trivia

  • Station Eleven has been translated into 33 languages.
  • The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility have been named among Barack Obama's favorite books in their respective years.
  • She left high school to study dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.