Education
He was educated at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire.
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Guy Mankowski
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He read Applied Psychology at Durham University. He then trained as a psychologist at The Royal Hospital in London. His first novel, "The Intimates", was a Recommended Title for New Writing North’s 2011 Read Regional Campaign.
Culture Magazine were more critical, and called it "unusually stylised for contemporary fiction".
Mankowski"s "breakthrough" second novel,"Letters From Yelena", followed the letters sent by a psychologically damaged ballerina to her lover, Noah. New Books Magazine described it as having "shades of The Red Shoes and The Black Swan".
The novel was given Arts Council funding, allowing Mankowski to be one of a few English people granted access to the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint St. Petersburg for research purposes. The choreographer Dora Frankel created a dance based on the book
An excerpt of the novel was used as GCSE training material by Osiris Educational.
His third novel, ‘How I Left The National Grid’, was written as part of a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing at Northumbria University. Whilst researching for it, Mankowski interviewed musicians such as Jehnny Beth from post-punk band Savages. lieutenant has been speculated that the novel he was researching was inspired by missing Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards.
lieutenant was noted that the books main character was ‘possibly based on Kingsley Chapman’ of The Chapman Family.
Narc Magazine called the novel a "taut and psychological look at the life and times of a man thrust into the limelight." Of the novel, The Huffington Post said, "Mankowski captures brilliantly the psychology of "fan obsession". Those of us who marvelled at "The Secret History" or "A Passage To India" are sure to find it equally enthralling".
The novelist Andrew Crumey commented "Already recognised as a major rising talent, Mankowski here establishes himself as a significant voice in British fiction". In 2015 Mankowski was editor of ‘Crash Bank Wallop: The Story of The HBOS Whistleblower’, which the Financial Times described as ‘a terrific read’.
