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Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956)[1] is aBritish Irish writer best known forchildren's novels. Most of her children's fiction isfantasy but several of her books also deal with the consequences ofgenetic engineering.
Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born inHalifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activistsE. P. Thompson andDorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 inInagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplishedfiddler with an interest inIrish traditional music, which is reflected inThe New Policeman.
She won two major annual awards forThe New Policeman (Bodley Head, 2005), set in modernKinvara and the Irish mythologicalTír na nÓg: theGuardian Children's Fiction Prize[3] and theWhitbread Children's Book Award. It also won theDublin Airport Authority Children's Book of the Year Award for 2005.
She has won theBisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times, forThe Beguilers,The Alchemist's Apprentice,Annan Water andThe New Policeman.Creature of the Night was shortlisted for the 2008Booktrust Teenage Prize and the 2009Carnegie Medal.[4]
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