Kate Saunders (born 4 May 1960 in London) is an English writer, actress and journalist. She has won the
Betty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. Each year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the ...
and the
Costa Children's Book Award and been twice shortlisted for the
Carnegie Medal.
Biography
Kate Saunders is the daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith), She has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including ''
The Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
'', ''
Sunday Express
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'', ''
Daily Telegraph
Daily or The Daily may refer to:
Journalism
* Daily newspaper, newspaper issued on five to seven day of most weeks
* ''The Daily'' (podcast), a podcast by ''The New York Times''
* ''The Daily'' (News Corporation), a defunct US-based iPad new ...
'', ''
She
She most commonly refers to:
*She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English.
She or S.H.E. may also refer to:
Literature and films
*'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...
'' and ''
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan may refer to:
Food and drink
* Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
History
* Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
Hotels and resorts
* Cosmopoli ...
''.
She has also been a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the ''
Radio 4'' programmes ''
Woman's Hour
''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946.
History
Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by A ...
'', ''
Start the Week
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'' and ''
Kaleidoscope
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''. She was, with
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (; ; born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written ...
, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme ''
Have I Got News for You''. The BBC children's series ''
Belfry Witches
Belfry Witches is a British television show broadcast by the BBC during its CBBC slot. It ran for just over a year, airing in September 1999 and running its thirteenth and final episode in November 2000.
The show followed two witches, Skirty Mar ...
'' was based on her series of children's books about two mischief-making witches.
Saunders won the annual
Costa Children's Book Award for ''Five Children on the Western Front'' (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that
E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist a ...
inaugurated in 1902 with ''
Five Children and It
''Five Children and It'' is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the '' Strand Magazine'' under the general title ''The Psammead, or the Gifts'', with a segment appearing each month from April ...
''.
[ She was also a contributor to the authorised ]Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.
The first collection of stories about the character w ...
sequel, ''The Best Bear in All the World
''Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World'' is the second authorised sequel to A. A. Milne's original ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' stories. It was published on 6 October 2016 to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of the first ''Winnie-t ...
''. Her children's novel ''The Land of Neverendings'' has been shortlisted for the 2019 Carnegie Medal, as was ''Five Children on the Western Front'' in 2016.
She has written many novels, such as ''Wild Young Bohemians'', and also co-wrote ''Catholics and Sex'' (1992) with Peter Stanford
Peter James Stanford (born 23 November 1961) is an English writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His biography of Lord Longford was the basis for the 2006 BAFTA-winning film '' ...
, who was then editor of the ''Catholic Herald
The ''Catholic Herald'' is a London-based Roman Catholic monthly newspaper and starting December 2014 a magazine, published in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and, formerly, the United States. It reports a total circulation of abo ...
.''Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
.Rodney Trotter
Rodney Charlton Trotter (also known as Dave by Trigger), is a fictional character in the long running BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses'', played by Nicholas Lyndhurst.
Biography
Rodney is the son of Joan Mavis Trotter, grandson of Edward Trot ...
in ''Only Fools and Horses
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'' episode in 1982.Aled Jones with ''Good Morning Sunday''
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. 6 December 2009.
in 1986
*''Storm in the Citadel'' (1989)
*''Night Shall Overtake Us'' (1993)
*''Wild Young Bohemians'' (1995)
*''Lily-Josephine'' (1998)
*''The Marrying Game'' (2002)
*''Bachelor Boys'' (2004)
*''Crooked Castle'' (2013)
*''Mariana'' (2013)
*''The Secrets of Wishtide'' (2016)
*''The Case of the Wandering Scholar'' (2019)
*''The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden'' (2021)
*''A Spell of Witches'' (1999)
*''The Belfry Witches'' (omnibus) (2003)
*''Cat and the Stinkwater War'' (2003)
*''The Little Secret'' (2006)
*''Beswitched'' (2010)
*''Magicalamity'' (2011)
*''The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop'' (2012)
*''The Curse of The Chocolate Phoenix'' (2013)
*''Five Children on the Western Front'' (2014)
*''The Land of Neverendings'' (2017)