Catherine Fisher

For other people named Catherine Fisher, see Catherine Fisher (disambiguation).

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.

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). She has also published a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many poems in magazines and anthologies. 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. 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. 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, 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
2003	The Oracle	Whitbread Children's Book Award	Shortlist
2003	The Oracle	Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers	Nominee
2007	Corbenic	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature	Winner
2019	The Clockwork Crow	Blue Peter Book Award	Nominee
2019	The Clockwork Crow	Tir na n-Og Award for Best English-Language Book	Winner

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 9781 781725078

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)
• Darkwater Hall (2000)
• Corbenic (2002)
• Darkhenge (2005) The Bodley Head ISBN 0370328590
• The Weather Dress (2005)
• Crown of Acorns (May 2010) Hodder Children's Books. ISBN 9780340970072
• 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
• 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
• The Empty Hand (1995) The Bodley Head
• The Soul Thieves (1996) The Bodley Head

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 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)

Incarceron series

• Incarceron (January 2010, 2007 in UK)
• Sapphique (December 2010, 8 UK)

Chronoptika series

• Obsidian Mirror (2012)
• The Box of Red Brocade (US title: Slanted Worlds, 2013)
• The Door in the Moon (2015)
• The Speed of Darkness (2016)

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