Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada.

She has written six novels. With Station Eleven (Ikaros, 2016), she was shortlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, whilst, among other accolades, she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2015). The book has been translated into thirty-three languages, and in 2021 it was adapted for television in the eponymous HBO series.

The Glass Hotel (Ikaros, 2021) was named one of the best books of 2020 by TIME magazine, the Washington Post, ELLE and the BBC. It featured on the New York Times Best Sellers list, in Barack Obama’s list of favourite books for 2020, and has been translated into twenty-three languages.

The Sea of Tranquility (Ikaros, 2022), her new novel, has so far been translated into four languages.

Emily St. John Mandel lives in New York.