Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell
Rundell in 2020
Born (1987-07-10) 10 July 1987 (age 37)
Pembury, England
Alma materSt Catherine's College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
Occupations
  • Author
  • playwright
  • academic
Writing career
GenreChildren's fiction, non-fiction
Notable worksRooftoppers (2013),
Life According to Saki (2017),
The Explorer (2017),
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (2022),
Impossible Creatures (2023)
Notable awardsBoston 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 shortlisted 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]

  1. ^ Creamer, Ella (30 November 2023). "Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with 'immediate classic'". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones Children's Book Prize". BBC News. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Blue Peter Book Awards 2014". BookTrust. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  4. ^ Bradbury, Lorna (25 April 2014). "Katherine Rundell: children's novelist and thrill-seeker". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Katherine Rundell". All Souls College, Oxford. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  6. ^ Presenter: Andrew Marr; Producer: Katy Hickman (30 March 2015). "Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice". Start the Week. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  7. ^ Presenter: Roger McGough; Producer: Sally Heaven (4 July 2015). "John Donne". Poetry Please. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  8. ^ Presenter: Mary Beard; Producer: Adele Armstrong (6 July 2016). "You May Now Turn Over Your Papers". Seriously…. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  9. ^ Radio 3, 10 July 2022
  10. ^ "2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature". www.hbook.com. The Horn Book. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Helen Dunmore wins posthumous Costa poetry prize". BBC News. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  12. ^ Allardice, Lisa (18 November 2022). "Interview: 'Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous' – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 December 2023.