Catherine Fisher

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.

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.^[1]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Immrama (1988)
• The Unexplored Ocean (1994)
• Altered States (1999)

Prose

• The Conjuror's Game (1990)
• Fintan's Tower (1991)
• Saint Tarvel's Bell (1992)
• The Snow-Walker trilogy:
  • The Snow-Walker's Son (1993)
  • The Empty Hand (1995)
  • The Soul Thieves (1996)
• The Candle Man (1994.)
• The Hare And Other Stories (1994)
• Belin's Hill (1997)
• The Book of the Crow series: (US title: Relic Master series)
  • The Relic Master (1998) (US title: The Dark City) (2011)
  • The Interrex (1999) (US title: The Lost Heiress) (2011)
  • Flain's Coronet (2000) (US title: The Hidden Coronet) (2011)
  • The Margrave (2001) (US title: The Margrave) (2011)
• The Lammas Field (1999)
• Darkwater Hall (2000)
• Corbenic (2002)
• The Oracle trilogy:
  • The Oracle (US title: The Oracle Betrayed) (2003)
  • The Archon (US title: The Sphere of Secrets) (2004)
  • The Scarab (US title: Day of the Scarab) (2005)
• Darkhenge (2005)
• The Weather Dress (2005)
• Incarceron series
  • Incarceron (January 2010) (2007 in UK)
  • Sapphique (December 2010) (8 UK)
• Crown of Acorns (May 2010)
• Chronoptika series^[2]
  • Obsidian Mirror (2012)
  • The Box of Red Brocade (2013)
  • The Door in the Moon (2015)
  • The Speed of Darkness (2016)

Awards and nominations

• 1995, The Candle Man won Best English-Language Book at the Tir na n-Og Awards^[3]
• 2003, The Oracle shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award^[4]
• 2003, The Oracle nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers^[5]
• 2007, Corbenic won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature^[6]

References

• Pollinger Limited page on Catherine (accessed 24 August 2006).

External links

• Official website
• Catherine Fisher at the Writers of Wales Database, Literature Wales
• Catherine Fisher at Fantastic Fiction
• Catherine Fisher profile at BBC Wales
• Catherine Fisher at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Catherine Fisher at Library of Congress Authorities, with 22 catalogue records