Susanna Clarke

Clarke was born on 1 November 1959 in Nottingham, England, the eldest daughter of a Methodist minister and his wife.{{cite web |last=Alter |first=Alexandra |title=Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared. |work=The New York Times |date=October 25, 2024 |access-date=2024-10-25 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/books/susanna-clarke-strange-norrell-sequel-interview.html }}{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Dewey |chapter=Susanna Clarke |title=Guide to Literary Masters and Their Works |publisher=Great Neck Publishing |year=2007 |via=Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)}} Owing to her father's posts, she spent her childhood in various towns across Northern England and Scotland, and enjoyed reading the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen. She studied philosophy, politics, and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7pVTz46T3cC&pg=PA110|title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present|volume=2|first1=George|last1=Stade|first2=Karen|last2=Karbiener|date=12 May 2010|page=110|publisher=Infobase |isbn=9781438116891}} receiving her degree in 1981.{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.de/Autor/Susanna-Clarke/p691467.rhd|title=Susanna Clarke (Autor) - Bücher}}

For eight years, she worked in publishing at Quarto and Gordon Fraser. She spent two years teaching English as a foreign language in Turin, Italy, and Bilbao, Spain. She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea.{{cite web |url=http://bloomsbury.com/Susanna-Clarke/authors/506 |title=Susanna Clarke |website=Bloomsbury.com |access-date=28 October 2017 |archive-date=10 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510121811/http://www.bloomsbury.com/Susanna-Clarke/authors/506 |url-status=dead }} There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. In 1993, she was hired by Simon & Schuster in Cambridge to edit cookbooks, a job she kept for the next ten years.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/04Clarke.html |title=The Three Susanna Clarkes |magazine=Locus |date=April 2005 |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 March 2009}}

{{main|Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell}}

Clarke first developed the idea for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell while she was teaching in Bilbao: "I had a kind of waking dream ... about a man in 18th-century clothes in a place rather like Venice, talking to some English tourists. And I felt strongly that he had some sort of magical background – he'd been dabbling in magic, and something had gone badly wrong."{{cite magazine |first=Lev |last=Grossman |url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,678627,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216121422/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,678627,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 December 2012 |title=Of Magic and Men |magazine=Time |date=8 August 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} She had also recently reread J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and afterwards was inspired to "[try] writing a novel of magic and fantasy".{{cite magazine |first=Jessica |last=Stockton |url=http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/21286-harry-potter-meets-history.html |title=Harry Potter Meets History |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=12 July 2004 |via=LexisNexis |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 May 2009}}

After she returned from Spain in 1993, Clarke began to think seriously about writing her novel. She signed up for a five-day fantasy and science-fiction writing workshop, co-taught by science fiction and fantasy writers Colin Greenland and Geoff Ryman. The students were expected to prepare a short story before attending, but Clarke only had "bundles" of material for her novel. From this she extracted "The Ladies of Grace Adieu", a fairy tale about three women secretly practising magic who are discovered by the famous Jonathan Strange.{{cite news |first=John |last=Hodgman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/magazine/01CLARKE.html?ex=1249099200&en=2fea0b3cbfbd17d9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all |title=Susanna Clarke's Magic Book |magazine=The New York Times Magazine |date=1 August 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} Greenland was so impressed with the story that, without Clarke's knowledge, he sent an excerpt to his friend, the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman later said, "It was terrifying from my point of view to read this first short story that had so much assurance ... It was like watching someone sit down to play the piano for the first time and she plays a sonata." Gaiman showed the story to his friend, science-fiction writer and editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Clarke learned of these events when Nielsen Hayden called and offered to publish her story in his anthology Starlight 1 (1996), which featured pieces by well-regarded science-fiction and fantasy writers. She accepted, and the book won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology in 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |title=Award Winners & Nominees: 2007 World Fantasy Awards Ballot |website=World Fantasy Awards |access-date=13 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730185710/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=30 July 2009}}

File:Colin Greenland.jpg, Clarke's partner, did not read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell until it was published.{{cite web |first=Steven H. |last=Silver |author-link=Steven H Silver |url=http://www.sfsite.com/02b/sl194.htm |title=An Interview of Susanna Clarke, Part 2 |website=sfsite.com |date=October 2004 |access-date=25 January 2009}}]]

Clarke spent the next ten years working on the novel in her spare time.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3625070/Ten-years-but-Susannas-book-is-worth-the-wait.html |first=Wendy |last=Grossman |title=Ten years — but Susanna's book is worth the wait |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 October 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} She also published stories in Starlight 2 (1998) and Starlight 3 (2001); according to The New York Times Magazine, her work was known and appreciated by a small group of fantasy fans and critics on the internet. Overall, she published seven short stories in anthologies. "Mr Simonelli, or The Fairy Widower" was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001.{{cite web |url=http://www.jonathanstrange.com/copy.asp?s=1 |title=About Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell |website=JonathanStrange.com |access-date=12 April 2009}}

Clarke was never sure if she would finish her novel or if it would be published. Clarke tried to write for three hours each day, beginning at 5:30 am, but struggled to keep this schedule. Rather than writing the novel from beginning to end, she wrote in fragments and attempted to stitch them together. Clarke, admitting that the project was for herself and not for the reader,{{cite web |first=Steven H. |last=Silver |url=http://www.sfsite.com/02a/su193.htm |title=An Interview of Susanna Clarke, Part 1 |website=sfsite.com |date=October 2004 |access-date=25 January 2009}} "clung to this method" "because I felt that if I went back and started at the beginning, [the novel] would lack depth, and I would just be skimming the surface of what I could do. But if I had known it was going to take me ten years, I would never have begun. I was buoyed up by thinking that I would finish it next year, or the year after next." Clarke and Greenland fell in love while she was writing the novel and moved in together.

Around 2001, Clarke "had begun to despair", and started looking for someone to help her finish and sell the book. Giles Gordon became her first literary agent and sold the unfinished manuscript to Bloomsbury in early 2003, after two publishers rejected it as unmarketable.{{cite news |first=Hilary |last=Rose |title=Her dark materials |newspaper=The Times |date=2 October 2004 |via=LexisNexis}} Bloomsbury were so sure the novel would be a success that they offered Clarke a £1 million advance.{{cite magazine |first=Amanda |last=Craig |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/node/160636 |title=With the fairies |magazine=New Statesman |date=27 September 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} They printed 250,000 hardcover copies simultaneously in the United States, Britain, and Germany. Seventeen translations were begun before the first English publication was released on 8 September 2004 in the United States and on 30 September in the United Kingdom.{{cite magazine |first=Adam |last=Dawtrey |url=https://variety.com/2004/film/columns/strange-casts-pic-spell-1117910574/ |title='Strange' casts pic spell |magazine=Variety |date=19 September 2004 |access-date=12 January 2009}}

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is an alternate history novel set in 19th-century England during the Napoleonic Wars. It is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centring on the relationship between these two men,{{cite news |first=Grady |last=Hendrix |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/08/24/do-you-believe-in-magic/ |title=Do You Believe in Magic? |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=24 August 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} the novel investigates the nature of Englishness{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Miller |url=https://www.salon.com/2004/09/04/clarke_13/ |title=When Harry Potter met Jane Austen |website=Salon |date=4 September 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} and the boundary between reason and madness.{{cite web |first=Polly |last=Shulman |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2004/09/fantasy_for_grownups.html |title=Fantasy for Grown-ups |website=Slate |date=16 September 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and an historical novel and draws on various Romantic literary traditions, such as the comedy of manners, the Gothic tale, and the Byronic hero.{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Dirda |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57806-2004Sep2.html |title=Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=5 September 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} Clarke's style has frequently been described as a pastiche, particularly of 19th-century British writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and George Meredith.{{cite news |first=Helen |last=Brown |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3623749/Under-her-spell.html |title=Under her spell |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 September 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} The supernatural is contrasted with and highlighted by mundane details and Clarke's tone combines arch wit with antiquarian quaintness.{{cite news |first=John |last=Freeman |title=Magic to do: Faux footnotes, social observation, and wizard rivalry stir the pot in Susanna Clarke's 19th-century tale |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=3 October 2004 |via=LexisNexis}}{{cite news |first=Michel |last=Faber |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview20 |title=It's a kind of magick |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2 October 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}} The text is supplemented with almost 200 footnotes, outlining the backstory and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship. The novel was well received by critics{{cite news |first=Annie |last=Linskey |title=Stranger than Fiction — After 10 years of writing, Susanna Clarke has found overnight success, and perhaps a bit of the old Potter magic, with her debut novel |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=29 September 2004 |via=Access World News}} and reached number three on the New York Times best-seller list, remaining on the list for eleven weeks.{{cite news |title=Best Sellers |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 January 2005 |via=LexisNexis}}

A seven-part adaptation of the book by the BBC began broadcast on BBC One on Sunday 17 May 2015. The book was adapted by Peter Harness, directed by Toby Haynes, and produced by Cuba Pictures and Feel Films.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/bbc-one-commissions-nov.html |title=Danny Cohen, looks ahead at the five key themes that will define the channel in 2013 |publisher=BBC |date=30 November 2012 |access-date=9 April 2013}}{{cite news |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/bbc-to-adapt-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-as-miniseries/ |title=BBC to Adapt 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' as Mini-Series |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |date=8 April 2013 |access-date=9 April 2013}}

{{main|The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories}}

In 2006, Clarke published a collection of eight fairy tales presented as the work of several different writers, seven of which had been previously anthologized.{{cite magazine |first=Yvonne |last=Zipp |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1031/p13s02-bogn.html |title=All the faerie young ladies |magazine=The Christian Science Monitor |date=31 October 2006 |access-date=7 April 2009}}{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Luscombe |url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/youll-believe-in-magic/article733584/ |title=You'll believe in magic |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=23 December 2006 |access-date=7 April 2009}}{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/flitting-into-the-world-of-faerie-1.1018912 |first=Mary |last=Morrissy |title=Flitting into the world of Faerie |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=21 October 2006 |access-date=9 April 2009}} The volume's focus on "female mastery of the dark arts" is reflected in the ladies of Grace Adieu's magical abilities and the prominent role needlework plays in saving the Duke of Wellington and Mary, Queen of Scots.{{cite news |first=Isobel |last=Montgomery |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview6 |title=Stitches in time |newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 September 2007 |access-date=7 April 2009}} The collection is a "sly, frequently comical, feminist revision" of Jonathan Strange.{{cite news |first=Laura |last=Collins-Hughes |title=Clarke's protagonist seen in less flattering light in 'Ladies' |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=10 November 2006 |via=Access World News}} In tone, the stories are similar to the novel—"nearly every one of them is told in a lucid, frequently deadpan, bedtime-story voice strikingly similar to the voice that narrates the novel."

The title story, "The Ladies of Grace Adieu", is set in early 19th-century Gloucestershire and concerns the friendship of three young women, Cassandra Parbringer, Miss Tobias, and Mrs. Fields. Though the events of the story do not actually appear in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, they are referenced in a footnote in Chapter 43. Clarke has said, "For a long time it was my hope that these three ladies should eventually find a place in ... the novel ... I decided there was no place for them ... I deliberately kept women to the domestic sphere in the interests of authenticity ... it was important that real and alternate history appeared to have converged. This meant that I needed to write the women and the servants, as far as possible, as they would have been written in a 19th-century novel."{{cite news |first=Colin |last=Steele |title=Literary journey to faerie realms |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=27 January 2007 |via=Lexis Nexis}} Reviewers highlighted this tale, one calling it "the most striking story" of the collection and "a staunchly feminist take on power relations".{{cite news |first=Claude |last=Lalumiere |title=Stories mix everyday and magic realms |newspaper=The Gazette |date=20 January 2007 |via=LexisNexis}} In her review of the volume in Strange Horizons, Victoria Hoyle writes that "there is something incredibly precise, clean, and cold about Clarke's portrayal of 'women's magic' in this story (and throughout the collection)—it is urgent and desperate, but it is also natural and in the course of things."{{cite magazine |first=Victoria |last=Hoyle |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/11/the_ladies_of_g.shtml |title=Review: 'The Ladies of Grace Adieu' by Susanna Clarke |magazine=Strange Horizons |date=20 November 2006 |access-date=10 April 2009 |archive-date=27 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727022949/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/11/the_ladies_of_g.shtml |url-status=dead }}

The collection received many positive reviews, though some critics compared the short stories unfavourably with the highly acclaimed and more substantial Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Hoyle wrote in her review that "the stories ... are consistently subtle and enchanting, and as charismatic as any reader could wish, but, while the collection has the panache of the novel, it lacks its glorious self-possession."

{{main|Piranesi (novel)}}

When she began writing her next book, Clarke was living in Cambridge with her partner, the science fiction novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland. They met when she took his fantasy writing course.{{cite news |last=Jordan |first=Justine |date=20 September 2020 |title=Susanna Clarke: 'I was cut off from the world, bound in one place by illness' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/12/susanna-clarke-i-was-cut-off-from-the-world-bound-in-one-place-by-illness |work=The Guardian}} She was, in 2004, working on a book that begins a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ends and which would involve characters who, as Clarke said, are "a bit lower down the social scale". She commented in 2005 and 2007{{cite web |url=http://foem.org.uk/ |title=Susanna Clarke responds to your questions... |date=10 January 2007 |website=The Friends of English Magic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110215122/http://foem.org.uk/ |archive-date=10 January 2007}} that progress on the book had been slowed by her ill health.{{cite web |last=Goodwin |first=Geoffrey |title=An Interview with Susanna Clarke |url=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_09_006537.php |website=Bookslut |access-date=29 June 2015 |archive-date=1 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701072548/http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_09_006537.php |url-status=dead }} In 2006 it was reported that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome.{{cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/susanna-clarke-cancels-book-tour/3691|title=Susanna Clarke cancels book tour|website=Adweek|date=18 August 2006 |access-date=22 August 2018}} Clarke found that writing the sequel to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was becoming too complex considering her illness, and she returned instead to an earlier project with fewer characters and requiring less research – which became her second novel. While writing this book she moved to Derbyshire.

In September 2019, Publishers Weekly reported that Clarke's second novel would be titled Piranesi and published in September 2020 by Bloomsbury. Quoting their press release, "A Bloomsbury spokesperson said the novel is set in 'a richly imagined, very unusual world.' The title character lives in a place called the House and is needed by his friend, the Other, to work on a scientific project. The publisher went on: 'Piranesi records his findings in his journal. Then messages begin to appear; all is not what it seems. A terrible truth unravels as evidence emerges of another person and perhaps even another world outside the House's walls.{{'"}}{{cite web |title=Book Deals: Week of September 30, 2019 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/81293-book-deals-week-of-september-30-2019.html |website=Publishers Weekly |date=27 September 2019 |access-date=28 September 2019}}{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/30/jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell-author-return-susanna-clarke-piranesi |title=Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell author to return after 16-year gap |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 September 2019 |access-date=30 September 2019}} Piranesi was published on 15 September 2020 by Bloomsbury. The audiobook is narrated by actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.{{Cite web |last=Hackett |first=Tamsin |date=24 July 2020 |title=Chiwetel Ejiofor to narrate audiobook of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/chiwetel-ejiofor-narrate-audiobook-piranesi-susanna-clarke-1212746 |access-date=15 September 2020 |website=The Bookseller}}

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!Year !! Work

!Award !! style="width:6em" |Result !! class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|References}}

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!2001

|"Mr Simonelli, or the Fairy Widower"

|World Fantasy Award for Best Novella

|{{Sho}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2001.html |title=Award Winners & Nominees: 2001 World Fantasy Awards Ballot |website=World Fantasy Awards |access-date=7 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011218064501/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=18 December 2001}}

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!rowspan="4" |2004

|rowspan="10" |Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

|Booker Prize

|{{nom|Longlisted}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/2004 |title=The Longlist |website=The Man Booker Prize |year=2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}}

|-

|Guardian First Book Award

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{cite news |first=John |last=Ezard |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/nov/04/books.guardianfirstbookaward2004 |title=Guardian shortlist takes world as its oyster |newspaper=The Guardian |date=4 November 2004 |access-date=5 January 2009}}

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|Whitbread First Novel Award

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{cite press release |url=http://www.booksellers.org.uk/documents/press_release_whitbread.pdf |title=2004 Whitbread Book Awards Shortlist |publisher=The Booksellers Association |access-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003082612/http://www.booksellers.org.uk/documents/press_release_whitbread.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2006}}

|-

|Time{{'}}s Best Novel of the Year

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/books.html |title=2004 Best and Worst Books |magazine=Time |access-date=12 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131152359/http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/books.html |archive-date=31 January 2009}}

|-

! rowspan="7" |2005

|British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award

|{{Sho}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/awards/?&skip=600 |title=Literary Awards |website=Contemporary Writers in the UK |access-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720091637/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/awards/?&skip=600 |archive-date=20 July 2009}}

|-

|Hugo Award for Best Novel

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=12 |title=2005 Hugo Awards |website=thehugoawards.org |date=24 July 2007 |access-date=5 January 2009}}

|-

|Locus Award for Best First Novel

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2005.html#nvl1 |title=Locus Index to SF Awards |magazine=Locus |access-date=10 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816155726/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2005.html |archive-date=16 August 2009}}

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|Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Mythopoeic2005.html#adultf |title=Locus Index to SF Awards |magazine=Locus |access-date=10 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506002758/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Mythopoeic2005.html |archive-date=6 May 2009}}

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|Nebula Award for Best Novel

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{cite web |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2005/ |title=2005 Nebula Awards |website=nebulas.sfwa.org |access-date=4 June 2021}}

|-

|World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

|{{won}}

|align="center" |{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2005.html |title=2005 World Fantasy Awards |website=worldfantasy.org |access-date=5 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506122311/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2005.html |archive-date=6 May 2009}}

|-

|—

|British Book Awards as Newcomer of the Year

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite web |url=http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/past_winners.asp? |title=British Book Awards |website=britishbookawards.co.uk |access-date=5 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908200902/http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/past_winners.asp |archive-date=8 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}

|-

!2020

|rowspan="6" |Piranesi

|Costa Book Award for Novel

|{{Sho}}

|align=center|{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/24/costa-book-awards-susanna-clarke-nominated-for-second-novel-after-16-year-wait|title=Costa book awards: Susanna Clarke nominated for second novel after 16-year wait|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=24 November 2020|work=The Guardian}}

|-

!rowspan="5" |2021

|Encore Award

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{Cite web|last=Chandler|first=Mark|date=5 May 2021|title=Oneworld takes two places on Encore Award shortlist|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworld-takes-two-places-encore-award-shortlist-1257918|access-date=25 June 2021|website=The Bookseller}}

|-

|Hugo Award for Best Novel

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/ |title=2021 Hugo Awards |website=thehugoawards.org |date=January 2021 |access-date=17 April 2021}}

|-

|Nebula Award for Best Novel

|{{Sho}}

|align="center" |{{cite web |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-56th-annual-nebula-award-finalists/ |title=2021 Nebula Awards |website=nebulas.sfwa.org |date=16 March 2021 |access-date=17 April 2021}}

|-

|Kitschies Red Tentacle for Best Novel

|{{won}}

|align=center|{{cite web |title=The Kitschies Blackwell's |url=https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/editorial/Kitschies |website=blackwells.co.uk |access-date=13 March 2023}}

|-

|Women's Prize for Fiction

|{{won}}

|align="center" |{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/womens-prize-for-fiction-goes-to-susanna-clarkes-mind-bending-piranesi|title=Women's prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke's 'mind-bending' Piranesi|first=Alison|last=Flood|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 September 2021}}{{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2021 winner of the Women's Prize! |url=https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-2021-winner-of-the-womens-prize |access-date=8 September 2021 |website=Women's Prize for Fiction|date=8 September 2021 }}

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• {{cite book |last=Clarke |first=Susanna Mary |title=Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |date=September 2004 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1582344164 |edition=hardcover |location=New York and London |pages=1–782 |author-mask=2}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jonathanstrangem00susa|title=Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell|last=Clarke|first=Susanna|date=September 2004 |publisher=Bloomsbury|others=Illustrated by Portia Rosenberg|isbn=9781582346038|location=New York and London|oclc=61660468|url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book |last=Clarke |first=Susanna Mary |title=Piranesi |date=September 2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1526622426 |edition=hardcover |location=New York and London |pages=1–245 |language=English |author-mask=2}}{{Cite web |title=Piranesi |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/piranesi-9781526622426/ |access-date=15 September 2020 |website=Bloomsbury Publishing}}

• {{cite book |title=The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories |location=New York & London |publisher=Bloomsbury |last=Clarke |first=Susanna Mary |isbn=978-1596912519 |edition=hardcover US 1st |pages=1–235 |date=October 2006 |author-mask=2}}{{Cite book |last=Clarke |first=Susanna |url=http://archive.org/details/ladiesofgraceadi00clar |title=The ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories |date=2006 |publisher=New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-59691-251-9}}

Clarke has published her short stories in multiple publications, including traditional press and newspapers as well as radio broadcast. This list contains the first publication of each as well as first appearance of "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" in her collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories.

• {{cite book |chapter=Stopp't-Clock Yard |title=The Sandman: Book of Dreams |editor1-first=Ed |editor1-last=Kramer |editor1-link=Edward E. Kramer |editor2-first=Neil |editor2-last=Gaiman |editor2-link=Neil Gaiman |location=New York |publisher=Harper Prism |year=1996}}
• {{cite book |chapter=The Ladies of Grace Adieu |title=Starlight 1 |editor-first=Patrick Nielsen |editor-last=Hayden |editor-link=Patrick Nielsen Hayden |location=New York |publisher=Tor Books |year=1996}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/s12.htm |title=The Locus Index to Science Fiction Authors: 2006, Stories |magazine=Locus |access-date=12 April 2009}}
• {{cite book |chapter=On Lickerish Hill |title=Black Swan, White Raven |editor1-first=Ellen |editor-link=Ellen Datlow |editor1-last=Datlow |editor2-first=Terri |editor-link2=Terri Windling |editor2-last=Windling |location=New York |publisher=Avon |year=1997}}
• {{cite book |chapter=Mrs Mabb |title=Starlight 2 |editor-first=Patrick Nielsen |editor-link=Patrick Nielsen Hayden |editor-last=Hayden |location=New York |publisher=Tor Books |year=1998}}
• {{cite book |chapter=The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse |title=A Fall of Stardust |editor-first=Charles |editor-last=Vess |editor-link=Charles Vess |publisher=Green Man Press |year=1999}}
• {{cite book |chapter=Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower |title=Black Heart, Ivory Bones |editor1-first=Ellen |editor-link=Ellen Datlow |editor1-last=Datlow |editor2-first=Terri |editor-link2=Terri Windling |editor2-last=Windling |location=New York |publisher=Avon |year=2000}}
• {{cite book |chapter=Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby |title=Starlight 3 |editor-first=Patrick Nielsen |editor-link=Patrick Nielsen Hayden |editor-last=Hayden |location=New York |publisher=Tor Books |year=2001}}
• {{cite news |title=Antickes and Frets |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 October 2004}}
• {{cite book |chapter=John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner |title=The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories |location=New York & London |pages=221–235 |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2006}}
• {{cite book |chapter=The Dweller in High Places |title=Tails of Wonder and Imagination |editor-first=Ellen |editor-link=Ellen Datlow |editor-last=Datlow |location=San Francisco |publisher=Night Shade Books |year=2010}}
• "The Wood at Midwinter". Bloomsbury Publishing. 22 October 2024.{{Cite web |last=Alter |first=Alexandra |date=25 October 2024 |title=Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/books/susanna-clarke-strange-norrell-sequel-interview.html |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=New York Times}}

• {{cite news |title=The Dweller in High Places |newspaper=BBC |date=26 February 2007}}{{cite web |title=The Dweller in High Places |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k2d4 |access-date=14 April 2009 |website=BBC Radio 7}}
• {{cite news |title=The Wood at Midwinter |newspaper=BBC |date=23 December 2022}}{{cite web |title=The Wood at Midwinter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9m4 |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=BBC Radio 7}}

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• [http://www.jonathanstrange.com Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell] at Bloomsbury Publishing
• [https://hurtfew.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Main_Page The Library at Hurtfew], a comprehensive fan wiki
• [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/28/susanna-clarke-made-in-bradford Susanna Clarke on her early life]
• {{isfdb name|name=Susanna Clarke}}
• {{british council|susanna-clarke}}
• {{LCAuth|n2004036926|Susanna Clarke|2|}}

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