Kate Saunders

 

Katharine Mary Saunders (4 ga Mayu 1960 - 21 ga Afrilu 2023) marubuciya ce ta Ingila, 'yar wasan kwaikwayo kuma 'yar jarida. Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Betty Trask da lambar yabo ta Costa Children's Book kuma an sanya ta sau biyu a cikin jerin sunayen Carnegie Medal .

Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi

An haifi Katharine Mary Saunders a ranar 4 ga Mayu 1960 ga dangin Anglo Catholic a London, babba cikin yara shida. Mahaifinta ya kasance mai ba da shawara kan hulɗar jama'a Basil Saunders, kuma mahaifiyarta 'yar jarida ce Betty (née Smith) Saunders. Ta yi karatu a makarantar Camden School for Girls .

Ayyuka

Talabijin

Saunders ta yi aiki a matsayin 'yar wasan kwaikwayo a lokacin da take da shekaru ashirin. Ayyukanta sun haɗa da bayyanar a matsayin 'yar sanda da Rodney Trotter ya yi kwanan wata a cikin wani shirin Only Fools and Horses a shekarar 1982. Ta kuma buga Caroline, abokiyar Penny a cikin wani shirin Kirsimeti na Musamman na Just Good Friends a 1984 kuma ta kasance mai ba da gudummawa na yau da kullun ga rediyo da talabijin, tare da bayyanar a shirye-shiryen Rediyo 4 Woman's Hour, Start the Week da Kaleidoscope . Ta kasance, tare da Sandi Toksvig, baƙo a farkon shirin jarrabawar labarai mai tsawo Have I Got News for You . Jerin yara na BBC na Belfry Witches ya dogara ne akan jerin littattafan yara game da Maƙaryaci biyu masu aikata mugunta.

Rubuce-rubuce

Saunders ya rubuta wa jaridu da mujallu a Burtaniya, gami da The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She da CosmopolIta . Ta rubuta litattafai da yawa, kamar Wild Young Bohemians, kuma ta rubuta Katolika da Jima'i (1992) tare da Peter Stanford, wanda a lokacin shi ne editan Catholic Herald. Saunders da Stanford daga baya sun gabatar da jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin bisa ga littafin a Channel 4.

Saunders ya lashe lambar yabo ta shekara-shekara ta Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014), gudummawa ga jerin abubuwan ban sha'awa na gargajiya wanda E. Nesbit ya kaddamar a 1902 tare da Five Children and It. Ta kuma ba da gudummawa ga Winnie-the-Pooh mai ba da izini, The Best Bear in All the World . Littafin 'ya'yanta The Land of Neverendings an sanya shi cikin jerin sunayen don lambar yabo ta Carnegie ta 2019, kamar yadda yara biyar a Yammacin Gabas a cikin 2016.

Rayuwa da mutuwarsa

Saunders ya auri Philip Wells a shekarar 1985; sun haifi ɗa kuma daga baya suka sake aure. Ɗansu ya mutu ta hanyar kashe kansa lokacin da yake da shekaru 19.

Saunders yana da cutar sclerosis mai yawa. Rashin lafiyarta ya ragu a cikin shekaru bayan mutuwar ɗanta, amma ta ci gaba da rubutu har zuwa ƙarshen rayuwarta. Ta mutu daga ciwon daji a gidanta a Archway, London, a ranar 21 ga Afrilu 2023, tana da shekaru 62.

Littattafan da aka zaɓa

Littattafai

• The Prodigal Father (1986) - Ya lashe Kyautar Betty Trask a shekarar 1986
• Guguwa a cikin Citadel (1989)
• Dare Zai Rufe Mu (1993)
• Matasan Bohemians na daji (1995)
• Lily-Josephine (1998)
• Wasan Aure (2002)
• Yara masu digiri (2004)
• Gidan sarauta mai laushi (2013)
• Mariana (2013)