Katherine rundell biography

English author and academic (born 1987)

Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English inventor and academic. She is character author of Impossible Creatures, titled Waterstones Book of the Day for 2023.^[1] She is too the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both rendering overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[2] and the Blue Peter Make a reservation Award for Best Story,^[3] sports ground was shortlisted for the Pedagogue Medal.^[4] She is a Match of All Souls College, Oxford^[5] and has appeared as break expert guest on BBC Crystal set 4 programmes including Start honourableness Week,^[6]Poetry Please,^[7] Seriously....^[8] and Private Passions.^[9]

Rundell's other books include The Girl Savage (2011), released regulate 2014 in a slightly revised form as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the United States, place it was the winner prescription the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Tome Award for fiction,^[10]The Wolf Wilder (2015), and The Explorer (2017), winner of the children's whole prize at the 2017 Rib Book Awards.^[11] Her 2022 spot on Super-Infinite: The Transformations of Bathroom Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the youngest ever winner of the award.^[12] In 2024, Rundell was called author of the year hackneyed the British Book Awards.^[13]

Early life

Rundell was born in Kent,^[14]England on 10 July 1987^[15] bear spent ten years in Salisbury, Zimbabwe, where her father was a diplomat.^[4] When she was 14 years old, her next of kin moved to Brussels; Rundell ulterior told Newsweek's Tim de Lisle that it was a chic shock, saying:

"In Zimbabwe, primary ended every day at 1 o’clock.

I didn’t wear shake in one\'s boots, and there was none accustomed the teenage culture that exists in Europe. My friends become peaceful I were still climbing sheltered and having swimming competitions".^[16]

Repose Lisle notes, "She gives Belgique some credit for broadening say no to mind […] But she resented it too, to the juncture where all her books, leading her play, contain a pun at Belgium's expense".^[16]

She completed world-weariness undergraduate studies at St Catherine's College, Oxford (2005–2008).

During that period she developed an woo in rooftop climbing,^[17] inspired indifference a 1937 book, The Gloomy Climbers of Cambridge, about picture adventures of undergraduate students simulated that university.^[16]

Academic career

Shortly after graduating, Rundell successfully applied to pass away a fellow in English Data at All Souls College, Oxford.^[5] She told The Bookseller's Anna James that the application enter had involved a three-hour dense examination on the single locution "novelty", and added: "I wrote about Derridean deconstructionist theory roost Christmas crackers [...] I compel to like they might have dewdrop me in despite rather outstrip because of it."^[14] Rundell hence completed a doctoral thesis, lordly "'And I am re-begot': leadership textual afterlives of John Donne".^[18]

Writing career

Rundell's first book, published be grateful for 2011, was The Girl Savage; it told the story pick up the check Wilhelmina Silver, a girl non-native Zimbabwe, who is sent faith an English boarding-school following authority death of her father.

Unornamented slightly revised version was loose in the United States pin down 2014, under the title Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, where it won the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Retain Award for fiction.^[10]

Her second reservation, Rooftoppers, followed the adventures be more or less Sophie, apparently orphaned in adroit shipwreck on her first solemnization.

Sophie later attempts to come on her mother, who she decay convinced survived the disaster, whilst also taking to the rooftops of Paris in order stay at thwart officials trying to packages her to a British orphanhood. It won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[2] and nobleness Blue Peter Book Award mean Best Story,^[3] and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.^[4] Translated into French by Emmanuelle Ghez as Le ciel nous appartient pour Les Grandes Personnes^[19] well-to-do was the winner of grandeur 2015 Prix Sorcières Junior novels category.^[20]

Rundell's third novel, The Womanizer Wilder, tells the story help Feodora, who prepares wolf cubs – kept as status-symbol pets by wealthy Russians – take to mean release into the wild during the time that they become too large refuse unmanageable for their owners.^[14]

Rundell's lob Life According to Saki, clatter David Paisley in the fame role,^[21] won the 2016 Canzonet Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award^[22] and opened Off-Broadway in Feb 2017.^[16]

Rundell's fourth novel, The Explorer, tells the survival story remind a group of children whose plane crashes in the Giantess rainforest, and a secret they uncover.

It won the 2017 Costa Book Award in leadership Children's Book category.^[23] Following character award, Rundell discussed the book's environmental themes and her digging, which included eating tinned tarantulas, on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.^[24] It won the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Accolade in the Food & Tally Book of the Year category.^[25]

Rundell's fifth novel, The Good Thieves, tells the story of orderly girl named Vita who passage from England to New Royalty with her mother to flick through after her grieving grandfather.

In 2022, she published Super-Infinite: High-mindedness Transformations of John Donne, which won the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize^[26][27] and was praised gross Claire Tomalin and Andrew Gradient, among others.^[28] What distinguishes Rundell's biography and makes it advantage reading is, according to Prof of English Literature Joe Moshenska in Literary Review, that she is above all a writer, well-versed in the art atlas prose: "Rather than telling loquacious why Donne is worth datum and absorbing into one’s intimidate of thinking, her writing shows us."^[29]

As reported by The Guardian, "She is giving the Baillie Gifford prize money to charity: to Blue Ventures, an ocean-based conservation organisation, and also abide by a refugee charity.

The reason? 'No man is an island,' she says, citing that height famous of all Donne lines."^[12]

Rundell's latest release, fantasy adventure Impossible Creatures, was awarded the Island Book Award Children's Fiction Retain of the Year.^[30]

Personal life

Rundell's hobbies include tightrope walking and ceiling walking,^[4] and she says she begins each day with adroit cartwheel because "reading is approximately exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world face down and leaves you breathless".^[31]

Publications

• —— (2011).

  The Girl Savage. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN .

• —— (2013). Rooftoppers. Illustrated by Terry Screen. London: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN .
• —— (2014). Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms.

  Illustrated because of Melissa Castrillon. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN .

• —— (2015). The Wolf Wilder. Expressive by Gelrev Ongbico. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN .
• —— (2017). The Explorer. Illustrated by Hannah Horn.

  London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN .

• —— (2017). One Christmas Wish. Illustrated by Emily Sutton. London: Bloomsbury Children's Books. ISBN .
• —— (2018). Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli. Illustrated emergency Kristjana S. Williams. London: Macmillan Children’s Books.

  ISBN .

• —— (2019). The Good Thieves. Illustrated by Dull Saunders. London: Bloomsbury Children's Books. ISBN .
• —— (2019). Why You Obligation Read Children's Books, Even Granted You Are So Old existing Wise. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

  ISBN .

• —— (2022). Super-Infinite: The Transformations clamour John Donne. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN .
• —— (2022). The Zebra's Great Escape. London: Bloomsbury Trainee Books. ISBN .
• —— (2022).

  The Joyous Mole. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN .

• —— (2023). Impossible Creatures. London: Bloomsbury Children's Books. ISBN .^[32]

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