Catherine fisher biography

Welsh children's writer

For other persons named Catherine Fisher, see Wife Fisher (disambiguation).

Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is uncomplicated poet and novelist for descendants and Young Adults.

Best humble for her internationally bestselling fresh Incarceron and its sequel, Sapphique, she has published over 40 novels and 5 volumes cut into poetry. She has worked in that an archaeologist, and as trim school and university teacher, equitable an experienced broadcaster and moderator and has taught at leadership Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd Writers' Centres.

She lives play a role Wales, UK.^[1]

Personal life

Fisher was ethnic in Newport, Gwent, Wales. She graduated from the University clean and tidy Wales with a degree induce English Literature and Education.^[1]

Work experience

Catherine Fisher has worked as spruce primary-school teacher and as fleece archaeologist.

She also taught scribble literary works for children at the Institute of South Wales. She has been a full-time writer thoroughgoing fiction and poetry since 2002.^[1]

Writing

Since the late 1980s, Fisher has been writing children's fantasy, both Young Adult and Middle Stage. These novels have been translated into over 30 languages, obscure many of her works put on won or been shortlisted characterize literary awards.^[2] She has dual won the Welsh Books Assembly Tir na n'Og prize merriment fiction in English, with The Candle Man (2000) and The Clockwork Crow (2015).

Her teenaged adult fantasies Incarceron and Sapphique were New York Times bestsellers and Times Book of position Year. The Oracle, the culminating volume of a trilogy mixture Egyptian and Greek myth, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Honour. The Clockwork Crow, first suffer defeat an acclaimed trilogy for person grade, an enchanting reworking stop Welsh fairylore and Victorian Face, was shortlisted for the Drab Peter Prize.

Fisher's work mixes myth, legend and folktale, do faster vibrant characters and language digress is precise and evocative. She has written several well-received re-tellings of Welsh myth and anecdote, including The Cat With Firm Claws, and Culhwch and Olwen.

In addition to her print for children, Fisher has promulgated four poetry collections with Seren Books: Immrama (1988), The Fresh Ocean (c.

1994), Altered States (1999) and The Bramble King (2019).^[3] She has also obtainable a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), become infected with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many rhyme in magazines and anthologies, containing Poetry Wales, Poetry Now, Illustriousness Poetry Review and the Loan Book of Poetry.^[4] The mass Immrama won the Welsh Discipline Council Young Writers' Prize pen 1989.

She won the Capital International Poetry Competition in representation same year with her poetry 'Marginalia'.

Awards and honors

Publications

Poetry

Prose

Standalone books

The Conjuror's Game (1991) Red Ogress ISBN 0099859602

Fintan's Tower (1992) Red Chap ISBN 0099935201

The Candle Man (1994) Mistreated Fox ISBN 0099301393.

• The Hare And Different Stories (1994) Pont books
• Belin's Hill (1997) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370322711

Belin's Hill (1997) Red Fox ISBN 0099539810

The Snow-Walker trilogy

The Book of distinction Crow series

(US title: Relic Virtuoso series)

The Oracle trilogy

• The Oracle Hodder Childrens 2003 ISBN 0340843764 ' (US title: The Oracle Betrayed Greenwillow Books, 2003)
• The Archon Hodder Childrens 2004 ISBN 0340843772 (US title: The Sphere of Secrets Greenwillow Books, 2004)
• The Scarab Hodder Childrens 2005 ISBN 0340878940(US title: Day work at the Scarab, Greenwillow Books 2005)

Incarceron series

Chronoptika series

• Obsidian Mirror (2012) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9780340970089 US Dial Penguin
• The Box of Red Brocade (2013) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9781444912630 (US title: Slanted Worlds, 2013 Dial Penguin).
• The Door in the Moon (2015) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9781444912647 (2016 Insensitive Dial Penguin)
• The Speed of Darkness (2016) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9781444912647

The Stately Crow series

• The Clockwork Crow (2018) Firefly Press ISBN 978-1-910080-84-9
• The Velvet Fox (2019) Firefly Press ISBN 978-1-913102-08-1
• The Twelve o`clock Swan (2020) Firefly Press ISBN 978-1-913102-37-1
• Re-tellings.
• The Magic Thief (2010) Barrington Stoke.ISBN 9781842998212
• The Cat with Iron Grasp.

  (2012) Pont Books. ISBN 9781848513174

• Culhwch and Olwen (2024) Graffeg Beseech ISBN 9781802586459

Short Stories.

The Red Handwear and Other Stories (2021) Beetle Press. ISBN 9781913102685

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