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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 different languages on Wikipedia. Caryl Churchill is the 6,505th most popular writer (down from 6,300th in 2019), the 5,896th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,389th in 2019) and the 660th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Caryl Churchill ranks 6,505 out of 7,302Before her are Andrew Kevin Walker, Anderson Cooper, Peter Wohlleben, Elizabeth Inchbald, João W. Nery, and Kim Leine. After her are Alyson Noël, Kathrin Schmidt, Anna Todd, Angie Sage, Emanuel Pastreich, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Caryl Churchill ranks 584Before 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 5,898 out of 8,785Before 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).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Caryl Churchill ranks 660Before 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).