Emily St. John Almond

Emily St. John Mandel (2015)

Emily St. John Mandel (* 1979 in Comox , British Columbia ) is an English-speaking Canadian writer.

life and work

Almond was born and raised on Denman Island off the west coast of British Columbia. When she was 18, she moved to Toronto to study contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theater . She later lived in Montreal for a short time before moving to New York and writing for the online literary magazine The Millions . She is married to Kevin Mandel.

She has published five novels so far . Her fourth novel, The Light of the Last Days (Station Eleven) , is a dystopia set in the near future in a world depopulated by a virus epidemic. He follows a traveling theater company that moves from place to place in the Great Lakes area to perform Shakespeare plays and music. Station Eleven was nominated for the National Book Award , the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Sunburst Award , and was honored with the Arthur C. Clarke Award . The film rights were acquired from producer Scott Steindorff . Your fifth novel is about people who have been affected by the recent discovery of a Ponzi scheme .

Works

Last night in Montreal. 2009
The Singer's Gun. 2010
The Lola Quartet. 2012
Eleven station. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014 ISBN 978-0-385-35330-4
- Übers. Wibke Kuhn : The light of the last few days. Piper, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-492-06022-6
The Glass Hotel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2020 ISBN 978-0-525-52114-3

Awards

2015: Arthur C. Clarke Award for Station Eleven - Laureate
2015: National Book Award for Station Eleven - nomination (shortlist)
2015: PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction for Station Eleven - nomination
2015: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for Station Eleven - nomination
2015: Sunburst Award for Station Eleven - nomination

Web links

Literature by and about Emily St. John Mandel in the catalog of the German National Library
Emily St. John Mandel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Literature by and about Emily St. John Mandel in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Works by and about Emily St. John Mandel at Open Library

Detailed interview, English

Individual evidence

↑ Archive
^ ^A ^b Emily St. John Mandel: Once a Dancer, Now a Noir Phenom. In: Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
↑ Janet Maslin: Emily St. John Mandel's 'Station Eleven,' a Flu Apocalypse . In: The New York Times . October 30, 2014, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 7, 2015]).
^ Locus Publications: Locus Online News »2015 Sunburst Awards Winners. In: www.locusmag.com. Retrieved October 5, 2015 .
^ Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'elegy for the hyper-globalized present' . In: The Guardian , May 6, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
↑ Best-Seller 'Station Eleven' Acquired by 'Jane Got a Gun' Producer . In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 10, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Almond, Emily St. John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Comox , British Columbia

[1] Archive

[:0-2] A ^b Emily St. John Mandel: Once a Dancer, Now a Noir Phenom. In: Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .

[3] Janet Maslin: Emily St. John Mandel's 'Station Eleven,' a Flu Apocalypse . In: The New York Times . October 30, 2014, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 7, 2015]).

[4] Locus Publications: Locus Online News »2015 Sunburst Awards Winners. In: www.locusmag.com. Retrieved October 5, 2015 .

[5] Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'elegy for the hyper-globalized present' . In: The Guardian , May 6, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.

[6] Best-Seller 'Station Eleven' Acquired by 'Jane Got a Gun' Producer . In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 10, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.