![]() It also won the Dublin Airport Authority Children's Book of the Year Award for 2005. ![]() She won two major annual awards for The New Policeman (Bodley Head, 2005), set in modern Kinvara and the Irish mythological Tír na nÓg: the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman. They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. Katharine Anna Thompson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. Most of her children's fiction is fantasy but several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering. ![]() ![]() Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956) is a British-Irish writer best known for children's novels.
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