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Sarah Kane

1971 - 1999

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Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself and scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, have identified some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sarah Kane is the 5,066th most popular writer (down from 4,645th in 2019), the 4,009th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,330th in 2019) and the 433rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Sarah Kane ranks 5,066 out of 7,302. Before her are Walter Kempowski, Margery Allingham, Roland Dorgelès, John Gardner, Mary Stewart, and Daína Chaviano. After her are Vasily Yan, George du Maurier, Amitav Ghosh, Takeshi Shudo, Linda Grant, and Miyamoto Yuriko.

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Among people born in 1971, Sarah Kane ranks 191. Before her are Max Martin, Mary J. Blige, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Song Il-gook, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Renee O'Connor. After her are Brad Friedel, Go Hyun-jung, Gheorghe Mureșan, Dean Smith, Corey Feldman, and Walton Goggins. Among people deceased in 1999, Sarah Kane ranks 213. Before her are Raúl Silva Henríquez, Lloyd La Beach, Rick Danko, Hideo Itokawa, Birgit Cullberg, and Celso Torrelio. After her are João Cabral de Melo Neto, Alain Peyrefitte, Umyar Mavlikhanov, Robert Douglas, Lester Bowie, and Gorilla Monsoon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 4,010 out of 8,785. Before her are Jane March (1973), Malcolm Campbell (1885), Margery Allingham (1904), Angus Macfadyen (1963), Frank Morley (1860), and Mary Stewart (1916). After her are Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), Cilla Black (1943), Linda Grant (1951), Michael Rennie (1909), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), and Alan Woods (1944).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 433. Before her are Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Richard Bentley (1662), Nicholas Evans (1950), Kim Newman (1959), Margery Allingham (1904), and Mary Stewart (1916). After her are Linda Grant (1951), Alan Woods (1944), Stephen Spender (1909), Joan Aiken (1924), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), and William Harrison Ainsworth (1805).

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