About Katherine Rundell on Fantasy and Maps
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Multi-award-winning author Katherine Rundell will celebrate wondrous and mysterious maps in fiction in this livestreamed student Q&A event inspired by her latest book The Poisoned King and our latest exhibition, Secret Maps. Join us to examine our enduring fascination with maps, the secrets they hold and the mythical creatures who inhabit their terrain.
The event is recommended for students in year 5 – 8.
We welcome students' questions and ask that these are submitted in advance via teachers to schools@bl.uk
Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author.
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Katherine's novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. In 2024 she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.
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