Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an internationally renowned novelist of historical fiction. The first of her Languedoc Trilogy, the New York Times bestseller Labyrinth (Putnam, 2006) won the Best Read category at the British Book Awards 2006, was #1 in UK paperback for six months and was named as one of the Top 25 books of the past 25 years by Waterstone’s. Adapted into a major television film by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, it was translated into thirty-eight languages. The second in the Languedoc Trilogy, Sepulchre, was also a New York Times and worldwide bestseller. CITADEL, the final novel in the series was inspired by the forgotten women’s stories of the Occupation in France and tells the history of an all-female resistance unit in Carcassonne during World War II. It has already been a bestseller in the UK and is published by William Morrow in March 2014.

Known as a campaigner for increased representation of women in the arts, Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Women of the Women’s Prize for Fiction - previously the Orange Prize and now the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Women of the World Festival at London’s Southbank and on the Board of the National Theatre in London. Named European Woman of Achievement for Contribution to the Arts, in 2012 she won ‘The Spirit of Everywoman’ award and in June 2013 was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List for services to literature.