Catherine Fisher

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Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a Welsh novelist and poet from Newport, Wales, who graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in English and a fascination for myth and history. She has worked as a primary-school teacher and as an archaeologist, taught writing for children at the University of Glamorgan, and has been a full-time writer of fiction and poetry since 2002. Writing children's and young adult fantasy since the late 1980s, she is the author of the Snow-Walker trilogy, the Book of the Crow (Relic Master) sequence, the Oracle trilogy, Incarceron and Sapphique, the Obsidian Mirror sequence and the Clockwork Crow books. The Candle Man won the Welsh Books Council's Tir na n-Og Prize, and Corbenic, a modern reinvention of the Grail legend, won the 2007 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature.

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• Corbenic (2002) · Corbenic Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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