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Joan Aiken

1924 - 2004

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Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Aiken is the 5,131st most popular writer (down from 3,969th in 2019), the 4,067th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,850th in 2019) and the 437th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Joan Aiken ranks 5,131 out of 7,302. Before her are Antti Tuuri, Arvid August Afzelius, Constantin von Wurzbach, Stephen Spender, Beatriz Galindo, and Candace Bushnell. After her are Adolf Muschg, Jacques Audiberti, Zsigmond Kemény, Carlo Porta, Ahmet Mithat, and Arthur Golden.

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Among people born in 1924, Joan Aiken ranks 373. Before her are Susanna Amatuni, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Yulia Drunina, Val Avery, Silvano Piovanelli, and Siiri Rantanen. After her are Natalia Bekhtereva, Erkki Kataja, Sabine Weiss, Carlos Humberto Romero, Masha Bruskina, and Peter Scholl-Latour. Among people deceased in 2004, Joan Aiken ranks 242. Before her are Quorthon, Madeleine Robinson, Marcelo González Martín, Richard Dembo, Fred Ramdat Misier, and Mochtar Lubis. After her are Eric Sturgess, Guinn Smith, Heinrich Mark, Jan Sterling, José Omar Pastoriza, and O. W. Fischer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 4,068 out of 8,785. Before her are Dele Alli (1996), Clements Markham (1830), Jay Kay (1969), Stephen Spender (1909), Kevin McKidd (1973), and Luke Foxe (1586). After her are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Glenn Hoddle (1957), Donald Nicol (1923), Edith Hannam (1878), Tom Boyd (1965), and Robert James-Collier (1976).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joan Aiken ranks 437. Before her are Margery Allingham (1904), Mary Stewart (1916), Sarah Kane (1971), Linda Grant (1951), Alan Woods (1944), and Stephen Spender (1909). After her are Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Edward James (1907), Bob Shaw (1931), Edith Sitwell (1887), and Brian Lumley (1937).

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