Catherine Johnson (novelist) explained

Catherine Johnson
Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Birth Name:Sylvia Hope Ruxton
Birth Place:London, England
Occupation:Novelist and screenwriter
Education:St Martin's School of Art

Catherine Johnson FRSL (born 1962) is a British author and screenwriter. She has written several young adult novels and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2004 drama film Bullet Boy (directed by and co-written with Saul Dibb).[1]

Background and career

Catherine Johnson was born in London, England, in 1962. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was Welsh. Johnson grew up in North London and attended Tetherdown Primary School. Later she studied film at St Martin's School of Art, before turning to writing.[2] [3]

Her first book, The Last Welsh Summer, was published by Welsh publisher Pont Books in 1993. She has since written and published 20 novels, including two for children about pioneering Arctic explorer Matthew Henson.[4] In 1999 her book Landlocked was honoured as an International Youth Library White Raven book.[5] Other accolades include the 2014 Young Quills Award for best historical fiction for over-12s for her 2013 book Sawbones, which was also shortlisted for the Rotherham Book Award, the Salford Children's Book Prize and the Hoo Kids Book Award.[6] Johnson won the 2019 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children's Fiction for her 2018 book Freedom.[7] [8]

Johnson has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London Institute, a Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison and a Reader in Residence at the Royal Festival Hall's Imagine Children's Literature Festival. She has served as a judge for the Jhalak Prize, first awarded in 2017.[9] [10]

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[11] [12] [13]

Johnson is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[14] [15]

Bibliography

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bullet Boy: Making Of . 20 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091007142136/http://www.bulletboy.net/making/ . 7 October 2009 . dead .
  2. Web site: Catherine Johnson . 20 February 2010 . The British Council.
  3. Web site: About Catherine. 20 February 2010. Catherine Johnson. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100505032935/http://www.catherinejohnson.co.uk/biog.html. 5 May 2010. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Great Lives Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer and pioneer. BBC Radio 4. April 2023. 20 April 2023.
  5. Web site: White Ravens . 20 February 2010 . International Children's Digital Library .
  6. http://catherinejohnson.co.uk/books/ "Books"
  7. https://littlerebels.org/2019/07/10/catherine-johnson-is-the-2019-little-rebels-award-winner/ "Catherine Johnson is the 2019 Little Rebels Award Winner"
  8. Katie Mansfield, "Johnson triumphs at Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction", The Bookseller, 10 July 2019.
  9. Farhana Shaikh, "The Jhalak Prize longlist", The Asian Writer, 12 January 2017.
  10. https://www.jhalakprize.com/our-judges "Our Judges"
  11. https://myriadeditions.com/uncategorized/myriad-authors-awarded-at-the-royal-society-of-literature-summer-party/ "Myriad authors awarded at the Royal Society of Literature summer party"
  12. https://rsliterature.org/2019/06/rsl-elects-45-new-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/ "RSL Elects 45 new Fellows and Honorary Fellows"
  13. https://rsliterature.org/fellow/catherine-johnson/ "Catherine Johnson"
  14. [Kevin Le Gendre]
  15. https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/catherine-johnson Catherine Johnson

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