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Published · transcript-backedEmily St. John Mandel: uncertainty
8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“I did think in the back of my mind that setting so much of Station Eleven in Toronto would make people in Canada think of me more as a Canadian writer, and I don’t know if it did or not, to be honest.”
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- 8 Apr 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think there’s ever a feeling in Canada that somehow you’re not Canadian enough as a writer, and that you’re just writing books? The thought has occurred to me. It’s possible. It’s a weird thing. I did think in the back of my mind that setting so much of Station Eleven in Toronto would make people in Canada think of me more as a Canadian writer, and I don’t know if it did or not, to be honest. I did win the Toronto Book Award, which is cool. But there’s such a randomness to awards. Ultimately, it’s just whichever books the five people on the jury liked, so I try not to put too much weight on it. But yeah, it’s definitely a better career in the US. When you were younger, you used to unload trucks at 7:00 am, is that correct?…
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