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Susanna Clarke

1959 - Today

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Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susanna Clarke has received more than 935,914 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Susanna Clarke is the 5,571st most popular writer (down from 5,068th in 2019), the 4,264th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,968th in 2019) and the 482nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Susanna Clarke ranks 5,571 out of 7,302. Before her are Paula Yates, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sándor Bródy, Stefan Andres, Olivier Rolin, and Hendrik Marsman. After her are Diomidis Kyriakos, Michio Mado, Albert Salvadó, Ferenc Móra, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Steven Millhauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Susanna Clarke ranks 330. Before her are Steve Strange, Brendan Perry, Joe Elliott, Kwak Jae-yong, Paula Yates, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. After her are Stanislaw Tillich, Paul McGann, Charlie Murphy, Domiziana Giordano, Brilliant Dadashova, and Orlando Figes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Susanna Clarke ranks 4,264 out of 8,785. Before her are Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Richey Edwards (1967), Tony Adams (1966), Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968), Charles W. Alcock (1842), and Kenneth Clark (1903). After her are Glenn Cornick (1947), Stan Mortensen (1921), Frances O'Connor (1967), Dorothea Bate (1878), James Challis (1803), and Ernest Henry Wilson (1876).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Susanna Clarke ranks 482. Before her are Antonia Fraser (1932), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Michael Grant (1914), Roger Ascham (1515), and Paula Yates (1959). After her are Beryl Markham (1902), Aubrey de Grey (1963), George Lillo (1691), Mark Haddon (1962), Terence Rattigan (1911), and John Gardner (1926).

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