Catherine Fisher

Catherine Fisher
Born	1957 (age 66–67)
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Welsh

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.^{[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	The Candle Man	Tir na n-Og Award for Best English-Language Book	Winner	[3]
2003	The Oracle	Whitbread Children's Book Award	Shortlist	[4]
2003	The Oracle	Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers	Nominee	[5]
2007	Corbenic	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	Winner	[6]
2019	The Clockwork Crow	Blue Peter Book Award	Nominee	[7]
2019	The Clockwork Crow	Tir na n-Og Award for Best English-Language Book	Winner	[8]

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

Short Stories.

• The Red Gloves and Other Stories (2021) Firefly Press ISBN 978-1-913102-68-5

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

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