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Author Michael Morpurgo has said the 36-year-old, who spent much of her childhood in Zimbabwe and was the youngest fellow at Oxford s All Souls College, is Tolkien s natural successor.
Katherine Rundell pops up on my screen as if by magic. She has just been announced as the winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year, for her children’s novel Impossible Creatures, though when we speak, she’s in Cornwall, near Padstow, where she goes to write. At 36, she’s already gathering quite a collection of awards: she won a Costa prize in 2017 for her novel Explorers, and last year, she won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for Super-Infinite, her biography of the poet and preacher