KATE MOSSE
Presentation:
- “Labyrinth and its Making” (Spring Semester 2008)
Kate Mosse (born 20 October 1961) is an English author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Kate was born in West Sussex. She was educated at Chichester High School and New College, Oxford. After graduating she spent seven years in publishing. In 1996 she published her first novel, Eskimo Kissing, about a young, adopted woman searching for her background. This was followed in 1998 by the thriller Crucifix Lane. From 1998 up to 2001, she held her post as the executive director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Meanwhile she also remained engaged in research work for her up-coming novel. In 2005 she had international success with her novel, Labyrinth, an adventure story set both in the Middle Ages and the present. She is the television presenter of the BBC Four literary chat show, Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and a well-known figure in the media. In 1996 she co-founded the annual Orange Prize for Fiction, of which she is also the Honorary Director. In 2000 she was named European Woman of Achievement for her contribution to the arts. In 2006 Kate Mosse won a British Book Award for Labyrinth in the category "Richard & Judy's Best Read". Recent works include a play commission for the Sky Arts Theatre Season, The Winter Ghosts and the third novel in the Languedoc Trilogy to follow Labyrinth and Sepulchre. Set before and during the Second World War in the South of France and Spain, Citadel will be published in the UK in September 2011. Mosse lives with her husband and children, Martha and Felix, in West Sussex and Carcassonne.