Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of ''Impossible Creatures'', named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of ''Rooftoppers'', which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including ''Start the Week'', ''Poetry Please'', '' Seriously...''. and ''Private Passions''.

Rundell's other books include ''The Girl Savage'' (2011), released in 2014 in a slightly revised form as ''Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms'' in the United States, where it was the winner of the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, ''The Wolf Wilder'' (2015), and ''The Explorer'' (2017), winner of the children's book prize at the 2017 Costa Book Awards. Her 2022 book ''Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne'' won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the youngest ever winner of the award. Provided by Wikipedia