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Kate Atkinson

1951 - Today

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Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kate Atkinson is the 1,539th most popular writer (up from 5,445th in 2019), the 1,396th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,138th in 2019) and the 146th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Kate Atkinson ranks 1,539 out of 7,302. Before her are Osvaldo Moles, Mukhtar Auezov, Karin Boye, Korney Chukovsky, Henri de Régnier, and Edmond François Valentin About. After her are Aksel Sandemose, Guido Adler, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Weber, Hipponax, and Sabino Arana.

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Among people born in 1951, Kate Atkinson ranks 93. Before her are Kazumi Takada, Javier Marías, Sydne Rome, Shigemi Ishii, Dana Rosemary Scallon, and Frank Wilczek. After her are Joe Lynn Turner, Roger Myerson, Horst Hrubesch, Šaban Šaulić, Bob Geldof, and Lazarus You Heung-sik.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kate Atkinson ranks 1,396 out of 8,785. Before her are Smithson Tennant (1761), Geraldine McEwan (1932), John Lindley (1799), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000), and William Aiton (1731). After her are Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Seamus Heaney (1939), Bob Hope (1903), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), William Whewell (1794), and Saint David (512).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Kate Atkinson ranks 146. Before her are Bernard Cornwell (1944), Joseph Addison (1672), Alistair MacLean (1922), Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689). After her are Seamus Heaney (1939), Samuel Pepys (1633), Richard Lovelace (1617), John Brunner (1934), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), and Neil Gaiman (1960).

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