Catherine Fisher is an author

Author

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, broadcaster and adjudicator who lives in Newport

Newport

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. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan

University of Glamorgan

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She began writing poetry and wrote poems that were published in several anthologies. She also published three collections of poetry with Seren Publishing

Seren Press

Seren Books is a small independent publisher of English language books by authors living in Wales. Seren's aim is to bring Welsh literature to a wider audience. The press takes its name from the Welsh word for 'star'....

. The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers Prize and she also won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition; both in 1989.
Since the late 1980s she has written children's fantasy. Her nineteen novels have been translated into seventeen languages and many of her novels have won or been shortlisted for literary award

Literary award

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Poetry

• Immrama (1988)
• The Unexplored Ocean (1994)
• Altered States
  Altered States
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  (1999)

Prose

• The Conjuror's Game (1990)
• Fintan's Tower (1991)
• Saint Tarvel's Bell (1992)
• The Snow-Walker trilogy:
  • The Snow-Walker's Son (1993)
  • The Empty Hand (1995)
  • The Soul Thieves (1996)
• The Candle Man (1994)
• The Hare And Other Stories (1994)
• Belin's Hill (1997)
• The Book of the Crow series: (US title: Relic Master series)
  • The Relic Master (1998) (US title: The Dark City) (2011)
  • The Interrex (1999) (US title: The Lost Heiress) (2011)
  • Flain's Coronet (2000) (US title: The Hidden Coronet) (2011)
  • The Margrave (2001) (US title: The Margrave) (2011)
• The Lammas Field (1999)
• Darkwater Hall (2000)
• Corbenic (2002)
• The Oracle trilogy:
  • The Oracle (US title: The Oracle Betrayed) (2003)
  • The Archon (US title: The Sphere of Secrets) (2004)
  • The Scarab (US title: Day of the Scarab) (2005)
• Darkhenge (2005)
• The Weather Dress (2005)
• Incarceron series
  • Incarceron
    Incarceron
    Incarceron is a young-adult fantasy and science fiction novel written by Catherine Fisher, first released on May 3rd, 2007. Published by Hodder Children's Books, it is the first in a line of novels centered around Finn and Claudia, two adolescents individually confined by the Warden of Incarceron...
    
    (January 2010) (2007 in UK)
  • Sapphique
    Sapphique
    Sapphique is a young-adult fantasy and science fiction novel written by Catherine Fisher, first published in 2008 in the UK. It is the sequel to Incarceron, and concludes the story of Finn's quest for freedom...
    
    (December 2010) (2008 in UK)

Awards and nominations

• 1995, The Candle Man won Best English-Language Book at the Tir na n-Og Awards
  Tir na n-Og Awards
  The Tir na n-Og Awards , established in Wales in 1976, are annual children's literary awards. There are currently three awards, presented to the best English-language book of the year with a Welsh background, and the best Welsh-language books for the primary and secondary sectors. Both fiction and...
  
  
• 2003, The Oracle shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award
• 2003, The Oracle nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers
  Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers
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• 2007, Corbenic won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
  Mythopoeic Awards
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External links

• Catherine Fisher's official website
• Catherine Fisher at Fantastic Fiction
• Catherine Fisher profile at BBC Wales
  BBC Wales
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