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Susanna Clarke
(b.1959)Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959, the eldest daughter of a Methodist Minister. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990 she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
Awards: Women's Prize (2021), WFA (2005), Mythopoeic (2005), Hugo (2005) see all
Genres: Fantasy
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Inviting Interruptions (2021)
Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
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Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme
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Susanna Clarke recommends
Anansi Boys (2005)
(American Gods, book 2)
Neil Gaiman
"Immensely entertaining... combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit."
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