1. Katherine Louise Mosse was born on 1961 and is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster.
21 Facts About Kate Mosse
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Kate Mosse is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages.
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Kate Mosse co-founded in 1996 the annual award for best UK-published English-language novel by a woman that is known as the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Kate Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor, Richard and Barbara.
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Kate Mosse's aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar.
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Kate Mosse was educated at Chichester High School For Girls and New College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1984 with a BA in English.
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Kate Mosse was a member of the National Union of Journalists and Women in Publishing.
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Kate Mosse left publishing in 1992, for a writing career beginning with the non-fiction, Becoming a Mother.
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In September 2014, Kate Mosse published her gothic thriller The Taxidermist's Daughter, set in 1912 in Fishbourne and Chichester.
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In June 2019, Kate Mosse released The Burning Chambers, the first of a series of novels, beginning in the French Wars of Religion, spanning 300 years from 1562 in Carcassonne, via Amsterdam to 1862 in Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Kate Mosse's monologue was inspired by the Book of Revelation, the final book in the Bible.
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Kate Mosse writes for various newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Sunday Times and from 2008 to 2011 she wrote a regular column for the book trade magazine, The Bookseller.
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Kate Mosse is a guest presenter for A Good Read on BBC Radio 4.
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Kate Mosse was the captain of the winning team of alumni from New College, Oxford, on Christmas Celebrity University Challenge in 2012.
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Kate Mosse was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to literature and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to literature, women and charity.
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Kate Mosse holds an Honorary MA from the University of Chichester.
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Kate Mosse was the 2012 winner of "The Spirit of Everywoman Award", awarded by NatWest.
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Kate Mosse was named one of London's 1000 most influential people in the arts in 2013 by the Evening Standard.
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Kate Mosse is married to playwright Greg Mosse and has two adult children.
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Kate Mosse moved back to her home town of Chichester in 1998 when she became the first female executive director of Chichester Festival Theatre.
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In June 2023 Kate Mosse was the invited guest on BBC Radio 4's long running radio series Desert Island Discs hosted by Lauren Laverne.