23-05-2025
Susanna Clarke: coming back from a vanishing act
Photo:
Bloomsbury
Booker Prize long-listed English author Susanna Clarke is one of the most influential fantasy writers of our time.
Twenty-one years after the publication of her smash-hit debut fantasy novel
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
, bestselling author Susanna Clarke is returning to this world with several short stories.
There has only been one other large piece of writing in two decades. Her novel
Piranesi
won the Women's Prize For Fiction in 2021. In between, a bit like the magic she writes of, she vanished.
After writing
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
in 2004 Susanna was diagnosed with ME, finding herself unable to write or even think of herself as a writer anymore. Susanne speaks with Susie.
