Clark, Susanna

Suzanne Clark was born November 16, 1959 in Nottingham ( UK ) in the family of a Methodist preacher . Suzanne’s professional activities provided her with a “nomadic” childhood: she had the opportunity to live and visit many cities in the north of England and in Scotland .

Suzanne Clark received a bachelor 's degree in philosophy, political science, and economics from St Hilda's College, Oxford University .

After graduating from college, she worked at various publishing houses, including Gordon Fraser and the Quarto. In 1990, Suzanne left for Turin , where she taught English to employees of the Fiat plant. A year later, she taught English in Spanish Bilbao . There, the idea came to her to write a detective novel, but she never finished it.

In 1992, Suzanne Clark returned to England. She spent some time in Durham ( Eng. County Durham ), in a house from whose windows the North Sea was visible. Long inactivity due to illness, as well as reading the novel The Lord of the Rings, inspired Susanne to write her own work. So Clark began to write the novel "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell", which she took ten years.

From 1993 to 2003 , Suzanne Clark worked as an editor at the Cambridge office of Simon and Schuster , where she was responsible for publishing cookbooks. In October 2004, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was published by Bloomsbury . The first edition was a beautiful volume of 782 pages with 185 footnotes and beautiful illustrations by Portia Rosenberg. The novel almost immediately became a publishing sensation: in the first two months in the UK about 750 thousand copies of this book were sold .

One of the reviewers ^{[ who? ]} called Clark's works a combination of equal shares of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens , seasoned with Rowling and Tolkien

Suzanne Clark is also the author of short stories and short stories, some of which continue the theme of her novel.

Suzanne Clark lives in Cambridge with her partner, science fiction writer and critic Colin Greenland ( born 1954).

The BBC channel on October 26, 2013 announced the lead actors of the mini-series "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" ( English Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ), an adaptation of her work ^[1] . The series was released in 2015.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell , (2004, Bloomsbury UK) Cover: Portia Rosenberg, William Webb
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories , (2006, Bloomsbury) Cover: Charles Vess

Editions in Russian

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ^[2] . AST , May 2006, 896 pp., 7000 copies, translators M. Klevetenko, A. Konopleva

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , ABC , 2016, 864 p., 5000 copies, in the new edition, with additional materials and illustrations ^[3] .

• Ladies from Grace-Adieu and other stories ^[4] . AST, November 2007, 352 p., 6,000 copies. Contents of the collection:

“Farewell to Grace, or the Ladies of Grace-Adye” (Translator: M. Klevetenko) Story c. 15-58;

“On the Dead Hill” (translator: M. Klevetenko) Story c. 59-94;

"Mrs. Mabb" (translator: Valentina Kulagina-Yartseva ) Story c. 95-148;

“How the Duke of Wellington lost his horse” (translator: M. Clevetenko) Story c. 149-162;

“Mr. Simonelli, or the Elf-Widower” (translator: M. Clevetenko) Story c. 163-236;

“Tom Wind-in-the-Field, or How the Magic Bridge was Built in Thorsby” (Translator: M. Klevetenko) Story c. 237-302;

“Grotesques and allegories” (translator: N. Parfenova) Story c. 303-318;

“The Story of John Asgglass and the Carbon Burner from Cumbria” (Translator: N. Parfenova) Story c. 319-337.

• Susanna Clark's site
• Bibliography on the Fantasy Laboratory website
• Grunt Review