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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 405,087 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Joan Aiken is the 4,408th most popular writer (down from 4,141st in 2019), the 3,276th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,109th in 2019) and the 375th most popular British Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

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  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Aiken ranks 4,408 out of 5,755Before her are Elias Khoury, Ivan Olbracht, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Juhan Smuul, Larry Collins, and Louis Hémon. After her are Pierre Emmanuel, Julius Zeyer, Charlotte Casiraghi, János Pilinszky, Nancy Huston, and Suzanne Lilar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Joan Aiken ranks 287Before her are Boris Vasilyev, Karel Kachyňa, Kihachi Okamoto, Kenny Dorham, Shirley Chisholm, and György Lázár. After her are Ron Moody, Scott Brady, Leo Buscaglia, Ruth Leuwerik, Max van der Stoel, and Guillermo Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2004, Joan Aiken ranks 189Before her are Michel Colombier, Virginia Grey, Ehrenfried Patzel, O. W. Fischer, Karel Kachyňa, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra. After her are Jan Sterling, Sara Lidman, Oscar Heisserer, Balamani Amma, Janet Akyüz Mattei, and David Reimer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 3,276 out of 7,765Before her are Andrew Planche (1727), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Dick Turpin (1705), Diana Dors (1931), Mike Spence (1936), and Catherine Bell (1968). After her are Rhona Mitra (1976), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Dave Davies (1947), Gayatri Devi (1919), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), and Michelle Dockery (1981).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 375Before her are John Mawe (1764), Isaac Watts (1674), Walter Savage Landor (1775), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Anne Bradstreet (1612), and Jackie Collins (1937). After her are A. E. Housman (1859), Richard Hoggart (1918), Sax Rohmer (1883), Christopher Priest (1943), Edward William Lane (1801), and George Chapman (1559).