Katherine Rundell

Children's Author

Katherine Rundell was born in Kent, England, United Kingdom on July 10th, 1987 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 37, Katherine Rundell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
July 10, 1987
Nationality
England
Place of Birth
Kent, England, United Kingdom
Age
37 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Writer
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University of Oxford
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Katherine Rundell Career

Writing career

Rundell's first book, published in 2011, was called The Girl Savage; it told the tale of Wilhelmina Silver, a Zimbabwean girl who was sent to an English boarding school following her father's death. In the United States in 2014, under the title Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, where it received the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction.

Sophie's second book, Rooftoppers, followed her adventures, despite being orphaned in a shipwreck on her first birthday. Sophie later attempts to locate her mother, who is certain of the cause, while simultaneously taking to the rooftops of Paris in order to thwart authorities attempting to transfer her to a British orphanage. It was voted overall for the Best Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Emmanuelle Ghez as Le ciel nous appartient to Les Grandes Personnes. It was the winner of the 2015 Prix Sorcières Junior novels category.

Feodora, who makes wolf cubs available in the wild as they become too large and unmanageable for their owners, is Rundell's third book, The Wolf Wilder.

Life According to Saki, a play by Rundell's son and daughter of David Paisley, received the 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award and opened Off-Broadway in February 2017.

The Explorer, Rundell's fourth book, tells the story of a group of children whose plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest and a mystery that is not revealed. It was named in the Children's Book category at the Costa Book Awards in 2017. Rundell spoke about the book's environmental issues and her findings, which included eating tinned tarantulas on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. It was named in the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award in the Food & Travel Book of the Year category.

Claire Tomalin and Andrew Motion among others, called Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne in 2022, which was praised by Claire Tomalin and Andrew Motion.

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Katherine Rundell, 36, of the United Kingdom, says losing her sister when she was ten is the reason she writes for young people

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 1, 2023
Michael Morpurgo, a warhorse writer who spent a large portion of her childhood in Zimbabwe and was the youngest Ever Companion of Oxford's All Souls College, is the ideal successor to Tolkien and Philip Pullman. Katherine Rundell spoke about the effect losing her foster sister when she was just ten years old on her life and work on Radio 4 Private Passions in 2022, saying it was "the greatest, lasting tragedy of my life." (Pictured: Katherine Rundell)

According to award-winning author Katherine Rundell, David Walliams, Dermot O'Leary, Rochelle Humes, and other well-known authors are too popular in Britain's bookshops and children need to see "a massive number of books."

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 1, 2023
According to Katherine Rundell, the most effective way to engage children in reading is to offer a large number of choices. Literary journalists have previously expressed skepticism about the stranglehold A-list showbiz names seeming to have over the market. The celebrity authors often receive lucrative advances and see their books heavily promoted in expensive marketing campaigns and prominent bookstore websites, which are often coveted by precious few other children's writers. I think that what children need most is access to a slew of books and our new eco-system of children's fiction,' Rundell, who received the Waterstones Book of the Year award for her children's fantasy book, Impossible Creatures, told the Times: "I think that what children need most urgently is access to a slew of books and our new eco-system of children's fiction, is the Walliams of the world'

WHAT BOOK would broadcaster and presenter Edward Stourton take to a desert island?

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 19, 2023
Edward Stourton, a host and broadcaster, is currently reading Super Infinite: The Transformations Of John Donne by Katherine Rundell. He says if he were to be stuck on a desert island "for a while," he'd most likely take one of Tolstoy's works. 'Anna Karenina is his best book, but War And Peace has uncovered more unexpected byways to explore, and the prospect of a Moscow winter would be a consolation in my hot and arid exiledom,' he says.
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