Susanna Clarke
Author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
About the Author
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Works by Susanna Clarke
Associated Works
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contributor — 364 copies
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century (Fairy-Tale Studies) (2021) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Clarke, Susanna Mary
- Birthdate
- 1959-11-01
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- County Durham, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Bilbao, Spain
Turin, Italy - Education
- University of Oxford (St Hilda's College)
- Occupations
- editor
novelist
short-story writer - Relationships
- Greenland, Colin (partner)
- Awards and honors
- British Book Award (Newcomer of the Year, 2005)
Waterstones 25 Authors for the Future (2007) - Short biography
- Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Both Clarke's novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in Folio Society Devotees (January 19)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - aulsmith tutoring Morphidae in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (April 2012)
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Statistics
- Works
- 20
- Also by
- 20
- Members
- 36,671
- Popularity
- #500
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1,176
- ISBNs
- 184
- Languages
- 23
- Favorited
- 204