Catherine Fisher lives in Newport, Wales with two cats. She worked as a primary school teacher and an archaeologist before becoming a full-time writer. She is also an experienced broadcaster and adjudicator, and has recently taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan.
She started her writing career as a poet; her poems have appeared in many anthologies, including Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry, Oxygen, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2001. She has also published three collections of poetry with Seren, one of which, Immrama, won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers Prize.
Since the late 1980s she has become a highly regarded writer of fantasy for children. So far she has written nineteen novels which have been translated into seventeen languages. Her stories are rich in myth and legend, and her complex characters have won her fans around the world.
Catherine Fisher’s work has won and been shortlisted for a number of prizes:
- Incarceron
Nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for the 2007 CYBILS award
- Corbenic
Winner of the 2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
- The Weather Dress
Shortlisted for the Tir na nOg Prize 2007
- Snow-Walker (USA title)
2005 New York Libraries Books for Teens reading list
- The Oracle
Short-listed for the 2003 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.
- The Oracle Betrayed (USA title)
Nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers.
American Libraries Association Best Books for Young Adults reading list
2005 New York Libraries Books for Teens reading list
- The Candle
Won the 2002 Tir-Na-n'Og Award.
- The Snow-Walker’s Son
Short-listed for the 1994 W.H. Smith Mind-Boggling award
- The Conjuror’s Game
Short-listed for the 1990 Smarties Award.
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