Awards & Winners

Catherine Fisher

Date of Birth 1957
Place of Birth Newport
(United Kingdom, Wales, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Catherine Fisher is a Welsh writer, broadcaster and adjudicator who lives in Newport. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan. She began writing poetry and wrote poems that were published in several anthologies. She also published three collections of poetry with Seren Publishing. 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 awards.

Awards by Catherine Fisher

Check all the awards nominated and won by Catherine Fisher.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature Crown of Acorns

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature Incarceron

2007


Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
Honored for : Corbenic

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Corbenic

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature Darkhenge

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature Corbenic

1995


Best English-Language Book
Honored for : The Candle Man