Katherine Rundell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katherine Rundell
Occupation	Children'S Author
Date Of Birth	Jul 10, 1987(1987-07-10)
Age	37
Birthplace	Kent
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

Katherine Rundell Biography

Katherine Rundell is one of the most popular and richest Children's Author who was born on July 10, 1987 in Kent, England, United Kingdom. Author who made waves with her novel Rooftoppers that won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She went to publish acclaimed novels such as The Explorer, which won the prize for children’s books during The Costa Book Awards.

She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the poet She wrote her doctoral thesis on poet John Donne…

Katherine Rundell (born 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2014 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, and Seriously….

She completed her undergraduate studies at St Catherine’s College, Oxford (2005 – 2008). During this period she developed an interest in rooftop climbing, inspired by a 1937 book, The Night Climbers of Cambridge, about the adventures of undergraduate students at that university. Shortly after graduating, Rundell successfully applied to become a fellow in English Literature at All Souls College, Oxford. She told The Bookseller’s Anna James that the application process had involved a three-hour written examination on the single word ‘novelty’, adding that, “I wrote about Derridean deconstructionist theory and Christmas crackers […] I feel like they might have let me in despite rather than because of it”. She subsequently completed a doctoral thesis on “the literary and textual afterlives” of the English metaphysical poet and cleric John Donne.

Her father was diplomat.

Katherine Rundell Net Worth

Katherine Rundell is one of the richest Children'S Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katherine Rundell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She lived for ten years in Harare, Zimbabwe as a young girl. When she was fourteen her family and she relocated to Brussels.

She has always had an fascination with heights and has taken part in tree climbing roof walking, tightrope walking.

Rundell was born in Kent, England in 1987 and spent ten years in Harare, Zimbabwe, where her father was a diplomat. When she was 14 years old, her family moved to Brussels; Rundell later told Newsweek’s Tim de Lisle that it was a culture shock, saying:

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Rundell’s play Life According to Saki, with David Paisley in the title role, won the 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award and opened Off-Broadway in February 2017.

Facts & Trivia

Katherine Ranked on the list of most popular Children's Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Katherine Rundell celebrates birthday on July 10 of every year.

“In Zimbabwe, school ended every day at 1 o’clock. I didn’t wear shoes, and there was none of the teenage culture that exists in Europe. My friends and I were still climbing trees and having swimming competitions”.

How old is Katherine Rundell?

About 35 years (1987)

What inspired Katherine Rundell to write The Explorer?

Rooftoppers and The Wolf Wilder author Katherine Rundell explains how her trip to the Amazon jungle inspired her brilliant new book The Explorer – and shares an extract from the story. The plot for The Explorer made its first appearance while I was in the sky, up above the Amazon River.

What awards has Katherine Rundell won?

Katherine is the bestselling author of The Wolf Wilder and Rooftoppers, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award and was shortlisted for many others. In 2017 Katherine won the Costa Children’s Book Award for The Explorer.

Is there a sequel to Rooftoppers?

Set a few unspecified years before her classic Parisian adventure Roofoppers, Katherine Rundell’s prequel , Skysteppers tells the story of Matteo and how he came to live up high.

Where does Katherine Rundell live?

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