WRITER

Joan Aiken

1924 - 2004

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Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Aiken has received more than 423,279 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Joan Aiken is the 3,969th most popular writer (up from 4,394th in 2019), the 2,849th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,268th in 2019) and the 320th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The bread bin
1974
The butterfly picnic
1972
Ghostly Beasts
2002
Limbo Lodge
2000
Go saddle the sea
Fiction, Orphans, Fiction in English
1977
Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Aiken ranks 3,969 out of 7,302. Before her are Virginie Despentes, Adam Naruszewicz, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Daniel Boulanger, Lope de Rueda, and James Allen. After her are Lino Aldani, Philipp Nicolai, Claribel Alegría, Palaephatus, Elena Văcărescu, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Joan Aiken ranks 259. Before her are Rainer Barzel, Theodore Bikel, Vladimir Semichastny, Olga Gyarmati, Paruyr Sevak, and Robert Webber. After her are Claribel Alegría, Riccardo Cucciolla, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Emmanuel Scheffer, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, and Lloyd Alexander. Among people deceased in 2004, Joan Aiken ranks 172. Before her are Torsten Hägerstrand, Gennadi Strekalov, Tony Randall, Agnes Martin, Jacek Kuroń, and Angus Ogilvy. After her are Ljubiša Spajić, Virginia Grey, Bror Mellberg, Rodney Dangerfield, Albert Brülls, and Hasse Ekman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 2,849 out of 8,785. Before her are William Elford Leach (1791), Robin Milner (1934), Colin Clark (1905), Angus Ogilvy (1928), James Allen (1864), and Patsy Kensit (1968). After her are Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Ian Paisley (1926), R. M. Hare (1919), Charli XCX (1992), and Cenwalh of Wessex (601).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 320. Before her are William Hazlitt (1778), Arthur Waley (1889), William Congreve (1670), Christiane Amanpour (1958), Nevil Shute (1899), and James Allen (1864). After her are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Alexander Neckam (1157), Mary Norton (1903), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Michael Morpurgo (1943), and Anita Brookner (1928).

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