She has asserted that in writing the novel she wanted to make it a little disappointing, difficult and a little prosaic rather than just being all glamor. What makes her novels different from many others is the worldbuilding as she makes her worlds and the magic and magicians seem very realistic. In her debut novel, she was creating a convincing story of magicians and magic similar to the “Earthsea” stories by Ursula Le Guin. Lewis among several other fantasy fiction stories.

She was particularly fascinated with the “Narnia” stories by C.S. As a child, she had always been in love with magicians maybe because they lived in rooms full of interesting and strange objects and that they know some things that are unknown to other people. She soon started writing down her ideas and creating the core for her debut novel. She had a very active imagination that took her to interesting places that were full of fascinating people.

Norrell” by boredom combined with an intrusive and restless kind of imagination. She currently lives with her partner Colin Greenland the reviewer and novelist in Cambridge.Ĭlarke was inspired to write her debut novel “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Simonelli or The Fairy Widower” made the shortlist for the 2001 World Fantasy Award. Apart from her novels, she also published seven novellas and short stories that have been featured in several American anthologies. Norrell.” While she was working on her novel, she took a job with the Simon and Schuster publishing company in Cambridge where she was an editor for the cookery list.

It was while she was living in Durham County that she began writing the manuscript for “Jonathan Strange & Mr. She moved to Bilbao and taught English there for several months in 1991 before coming back to England in 1992. She went to college in Oxford at St Hilda’s College before she went on to work in various areas of publishing at “Quarto” and “Gordon Fraser.” In 1990, she relocated to Turin to become a teacher of English to executives of the Fiat Motor Company. She was born in 1959 in Nottingham and spent much of her childhood between several towns in Scotland and Northern England. Susanna Clarke is an alternate history, fantasy and science fiction author from Cambridge England.

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