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Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a poet and novelist for children and Young Adults. Best known for her internationally bestselling novel Incarceron and its sequel, Sapphique, she has published over 40 novels and 5 volumes of poetry. She has worked as an archaeologist, and as a school and university teacher, is an experienced broadcaster and adjudicator and has taught at the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd Writers' Centres. She lives in Wales, UK.
Personal life
Fisher was born in Newport, Gwent, Wales. She graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in English Literature and Education.
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 South Wales. She has been a full-time writer of fiction and poetry since 2002.
Writing
Since the late 1980s, Fisher has been writing children's fantasy, both Young Adult and Middle Grade. These novels have been translated into over 30 languages, and many of her works have won or been shortlisted for literary awards. 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. She has written several well-received re-tellings of Welsh myth and legend, including The Cat With Iron Claws, and Culhwch and Olwen.
In addition to her writing for children, Fisher has published four poetry collections with Seren Books: Immrama (1988), The Unexplored Ocean (c. 1994), Altered States (1999) and The Bramble King (2019). She has also published a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many poems in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Wales, Poetry Now, The Poetry Review and the Forward Book of Poetry. 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'.
Awards and honors
Publications
= Poetry
=Immrama (1988) Seren Books ISBN 1854110039
The Unexplored Ocean (1994)Seren Books ISBN 185411106X
Altered States (1999) Seren Books ISBN 1854112732
Folklore (2003) Smith/Doorstop Books ISBN 1902382501
The Bramble King (2019) Seren Books. ISBN 9781781725078
= Prose
=Standalone books
The Conjuror's Game (1990) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370314123
The Conjuror's Game (1991) Red Fox ISBN 0099859602
Fintan's Tower (1991) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370315979
Fintan's Tower (1992) Red Fox ISBN 0099935201
Saint Tarvel's Bell (1992) Chivers Press ISBN 0862208998
The Candle Man (1994.) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370318897
The Candle Man (1994) Red Fox ISBN 0099301393.
The Hare And Other Stories (1994) Pont books
Belin's Hill (1997) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370322711
Belin's Hill (1997) Red Fox ISBN 0099539810
The Lammas Field (1999) Hodder Children's ISBN 0340736992
Darkwater Hall (2000) Hodder Children's ISBN 0340743832
Corbenic (2002) Red Fox ISBN 9780099438489
Darkhenge (2005) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370328590
The Weather Dress (2005) Pont Books ISBN 1843235935
Crown of Acorns (May 2010) Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 9780340970072
The Snow-Walker trilogy
The Snow-Walker's Son (1993) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370317963 Red Fox pb ISBN 9780099251927
The Empty Hand (1995) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370323106 Red Fox pb ISBN 0099251825
The Soul Thieves (1996) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370324900 Red Fox pb ISBN 0099539713
The Book of the Crow series
(US title: Relic Master series)
The Relic Master Bodley Head 1998 ISBN 0-370-32426-9 Red Fox paperback 1998 ISBN 0099263939 (US title: The Dark City, 2011)
The Interrex (1999) Bodley Head ISBN 0370324366 Red Fox paperback 2000 ISBN 0099263947 (US title: The Lost Heiress, 2011)
Flain's Coronet (2000) Bodley Head ISBN 0370326024 Red Fox paperback ISBN 0-09-940306-4 (US title: The Hidden Coronet, 2011)
The Margrave (2001) Red Fox paperback ISBN 0-09-940487-7 (US title: The Margrave, 2011)
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 of the Scarab, Greenwillow Books 2005)
Incarceron series
Incarceron (2007) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9780340893609 2007 US Dial Penguin.
Sapphique (2008) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9780340893616 2008 US Dial Penguin.
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 US Dial Penguin)
The Speed of Darkness (2016) Hodder Childrens ISBN 9781444912647
The Clockwork 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 Midnight Swan (2020) Firefly Press ISBN 978-1-913102-37-1
Re-tellings.
The Magic Thief (2010) Barrington Stoke.ISBN 9781842998212
The Cat with Iron Claws. (2012) Pont Books. ISBN 9781848513174
Culhwch and Olwen (2024) Graffeg Press ISBN 9781802586459
Short Stories.
The Red Gloves and Other Stories (2021) Firefly Press. ISBN 9781913102685
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, with 22 library catalogue records
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