Katherine Rundell | |
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Alma mater | St Catherine's College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford |
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Genre | Children's fiction, non-fiction |
Notable works | Rooftoppers (2013), Life According to Saki (2017), The Explorer (2017), Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (2022), Impossible Creatures (2023) |
Notable awards | Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Costa Book Award Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction |
Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023.[1] She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize[2] and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story,[3] and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal.[4] She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford[5] and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week,[6] Poetry Please,[7] Seriously....[8] and Private Passions.[9]
Rundell's other books include The Girl Savage (2011), released in 2014 in a slightly revised form as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the United States, where it was the winner of the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction,[10] The Wolf Wilder (2015), and The Explorer (2017), winner of the children's book prize at the 2017 Costa Book Awards.[11] Her 2022 book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the youngest ever winner of the award.[12]