Name Catherine Fisher Role Writer | Education University of Wales Movies Incarceron | |
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Awards Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, Best English-Language Book Books Incarceron, Sapphique, The Relic Master, Obsidian Mirror, The Oracle Similar People Sarah Prineas, Elizabeth Kay, Kevin Henkes | ||
Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a Welsh poet and children's novelist who writes in English. She has also worked as a school and university teacher. She lives in Newport.
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Work experience
Fisher's former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and as an archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan.
Writing
She began writing poetry and had several poems published in anthologies. She also published three collections of her own poetry with Seren Publishing. The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize in 1989. She also won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in the same year.
Since the late 1980s she has been writing children's fantasy. Her 19 novels have been translated into 17 languages, and many of her works have won or been shortlisted for literary awards.