Английская Википедия:Catherine Fisher

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other people Шаблон:BLP sourcesШаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British EnglishШаблон:Infobox writer Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a Welsh poet and children's novelist. She has also worked as a school and university teacher.

Work experience

Catherine Fisher has worked as a primary-school teacher and as an archaeologist. She also taught writing for children at the University of Glamorgan.She has been a full-time writer of fiction and poetry since 2002.

Writing

Fisher has published four poetry collections with Seren Books: Immrama (1988), The Unexplored Ocean (c. 1994), Altered States (1999) and The Bramble King (2019).[1] She has also published a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many poems in magazines and anthologies.[2] The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize in 1989. She won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in the same year with her poem 'Marginalia'.

Since the late 1980s, Fisher has been writing children's fantasy, both Young Adult, and middle grade. Her novels of this kind have been translated into over 30 languages, and many of her works have won or been shortlisted for literary awards.Шаблон:Citation needed She has twice won the Welsh Books Council Tir na n'Og prize for fiction in English, with The Candle Man (2000) and The Clockwork Crow (2015) Her young adult fantasies Incarceron and Sapphique were New York Times bestsellers and Times Book of the Year. The Oracle, the first volume of a trilogy mixing Egyptian and Greek myth, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. The Clockwork Crow, first of an acclaimed trilogy for middle grade, an enchanting reworking of Welsh fairylore and Victorian Gothic,was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize. Fisher's work mixes myth, legend and folktale, with vibrant characters and language that is precise and evocative.

Awards and honors

Awards for Fisher's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
1996 Шаблон:Sort Tir na n-Og Award for Best English-Language Book Winner [3]
2003 Шаблон:Sort Whitbread Children's Book Award Shortlist [4]
2003 Шаблон:Sort Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers Nominee [5]
2007 Corbenic Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner [6]
2019 Шаблон:Sort Blue Peter Book Award Nominee [7]
2019 Шаблон:Sort Tir na n-Og Award for Best English-Language Book Winner [8]

Publications

Poetry

Prose

Standalone books

The Conjuror's Game (1991) Red Fox Шаблон:ISBN
Fintan's Tower (1992) Red Fox Шаблон:ISBN
The Candle Man (1994) Red Fox Шаблон:ISBN.
  • The Hare And Other Stories (1994) Pont books
  • Belin's Hill (1997) The Bodley Head Шаблон:ISBN
Belin's Hill (1997) Red Fox Шаблон:ISBN

Short Stories.

The Snow-Walker trilogy

The Book of the Crow series

(US title: Relic Master series)

The Oracle trilogy

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

Incarceron series

Chronoptika series

The Clockwork Crow series

References

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  1. ↑ Dates from British Library catalogue.
  2. ↑ Dates from British Library catalogue.
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  8. ↑ "Catherine Fisher wins the Tir na n-Og children's literature award with The Clockwork Crow" Welsh Books Council. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
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