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Susanna Clarke
Novelist

Susanna Clarke

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Creating the imagined worlds of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Born
1 November 1959
Birthplace
Nottingham

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Jane AustenWriting Pride and Prejudice and Emma.Charles DickensWriting Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.Toni MorrisonWriting Beloved and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke is an English novelist whose fantasy combines literary invention with questions of knowledge and power. Her debut won a Hugo Award and Piranesi won the Women’s Prize.

Early life

Education and work

Studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, then worked in publishing and taught English abroad.

Career

  1. 1990s

    Writing alongside editing

    Developed her first novel while editing cookbooks.

  2. 2004

    Debut publication

    Published Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

  3. 2020

    Second novel

    Published Piranesi.

Selected work

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Imagines competing magicians in nineteenth-century England.

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Collects stories of magic and power.

Piranesi

Follows a man inhabiting an extraordinary house.

Beyond work

Literary influences

Grew up reading Austen, Dickens and Conan Doyle.

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