Susanna Clarke
Author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
About the Author
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Works by Susanna Clarke
Stopp't-Clock Yard 3 copies
Associated Works
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contributor — 367 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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Discussions
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in Folio Society Devotees (Yesterday 4:48pm)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - aulsmith tutoring Morphidae in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (April 2012)
Reviews
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
scritto benissimo!
Probably should've DNF'd. Just never really got into it until page 750+. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Tried hard, but the book just didn't seem to be getting anywhere.
It would be impossible for me to describe what this book is about, but it really doesn't matter because it's best if you don't know much about it going in. It has beautiful world-building, there is a building of suspense as you learn more in the story, and it will keep you thinking about the book long after it is done. Piranesi is the type of book that gets even better the more time that passes after you've finished the last page.
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Faerie Mythology (2)
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Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Also by
- 20
- Members
- 37,107
- Popularity
- #492
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1,194
- ISBNs
- 185
- Languages
- 23
- Favorited
- 204
