Susanna Clarke

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Susanna Clarke is a British author born November 1, 1959, in Nottingham, England, the eldest daughter of a Methodist minister. She studied philosophy, politics, and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating in 1981, then worked eight years in publishing at Quarto and Gordon Fraser, taught English as a foreign language in Turin and Bilbao for two years, and from 1993 to 2003 edited cookbooks for Simon & Schuster while developing her debut novel. She is best known for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), an alternate-history fantasy set in 19th-century England during the Napoleonic Wars, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel, all in 2005. She also published the short-story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). Her second novel, Piranesi (2020), won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021 and the Kitschies Red Tentacle for Best Novel.

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Books

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) · Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Core Canon
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006) · Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Expanded Canon
• Piranesi (2020) · Piranesi Core Canon
• The Wood at Midwinter (2024) · Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 24 (6 won, 2 finalist mention, 16 nomination)

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