About Kate Mosse
Katherine Louise Mosse (born 1961) is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. She co-founded in 1996 the annual award for best UK-published English-language novel by a woman that is now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction, and since 2024 has a sister award, The Women's Prize for Nonfiction. == Early life and career == Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor, Richard (1920–2011) and Barbara (1931–2014). Mosse's aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar. She was educated at Chichester High School for Girls and New College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in English. After leaving university, she spent seven years working in publishing in London for Hodder & Stoughton, then Century, and finally as an editorial director at Hutchinson, part of the Random House group. She was a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Women in Publishing. She left publishing in 1992, for a writing career beginning with the non-fiction, Becoming a Mother. == Career == === Early writing and the Languedoc Trilogy === Although best known for her adventure and ghost fiction, inspired by real history, Mosse's first two works were non-fiction.
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