Canadian author Emily St John Mandel has won the 2015 Arthur C Clarke award for her fourth novel, Station Eleven.
The prize, which was won by local author Lauren Beukes in 2011 for Zoo City, is awarded to the best science fiction novel of the year. Past winners include Margaret Atwood, China Miéville and Neal Stephenson.
Station Eleven was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and was also a finalist for the National Book Awards.
Chair of the judges, Andrew M Butler, said: “While many post-apocalypse novels focus on the survival of humanity, Station Eleven focuses instead on the survival of our culture, with the novel becoming an elegy for the hyper-globalised present.”
The shortlisted authors were:
The Girl With All The Gifts – MR Carey (Orbit)
The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber (Canongate)
Europe In Autumn – Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
Memory Of Water – Emmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager)
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August – Claire North (Orbit)
Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel (Picador)
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- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
EAN: 9781447268987
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