Elected: 2020
Year of birth: Nina Subin
Katherine Rundell is a £50 Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature, and a writer of children’s books. Her novels include Rooftoppers and The Explorer and have won, among others, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in America, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcières in France. Two books for adults, one about John Donne and one modern bestiary, will be published in 2021.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
