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Caryl Churchill

1938 - Today

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Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2012), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Caryl Churchill is the 6,518th most popular writer (down from 6,300th in 2024), the 5,904th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,388th in 2019) and the 660th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Caryl Churchill ranks 6,524 out of 7,302. Before her are Anthony Boucher, Mariana Enríquez, Norman Lear, Klas Östergren, Naomi Mitchison, Andrew Kevin Walker, Chiaki J. Konaka, Anderson Cooper, Peter Wohlleben, Elizabeth Inchbald, João W. Nery, and Kim Leine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Caryl Churchill ranks 584. Before her are Eduard Ivanov, Maxine Waters, Aldo Valentini, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Richard Lerner, and Bobby Charles. After her are David Singmaster, Sultan Rahi, Darrall Imhoff, Arthur Scargill, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and B. Saroja Devi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Caryl Churchill ranks 5,906 out of 8,785. Before her are Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), James Newman (1985), Iain Pears (1955), Alan Minter (1951), Alan Bush (1900), and Elizabeth Inchbald (1753). After her are John Stones (1994), Keith Devlin (1947), George Butterworth (1885), Lawrence Hargrave (1850), C. B. K. Beachcroft (1870), and Soni Razdan (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Caryl Churchill ranks 660. Before her are Michael Rosen (1946), Saunders Lewis (1893), Bernardine Evaristo (1959), Walter Besant (1836), Naomi Mitchison (1897), and Elizabeth Inchbald (1753). After her are Angie Sage (1952), Mo Hayder (1962), Rose Tremain (1943), Henry Green (1905), George Peele (1556), and Coventry Patmore (1823).

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