# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-rundell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:28:53.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-rundell"
name: "Katherine Rundell"
slug: "katherine-rundell"
description: "Katherine Rundell is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, Poetry Please,  Seriously.... and Private Passions."
tagline: "British author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_rundell_2020_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1987-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.18
  momentum:             4.397279549718575
  historical:           7.887670666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/kdbrundell"
    handle:    "kdbrundell"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/katherine-rundell"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Катрин Ръндъл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katherine Rundell"
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    title: "Katherine Rundell"
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    title: "קתרין רנדל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell"
    title: "Katherine Rundell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump