Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse in Warsaw (2008)
Born	(1961-10-20) 20 October 1961 (age 50) West Sussex, England
Occupation	Author
Nationality	English
Genres	Fantasy
Spouse(s)	Greg Mosse
Children	Martha Mosse, Felix Mosse
www.katemosse.co.uk

Kate Mosse (born 20 October 1961) is an English author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages.

Private life[link]

Mosse was born in West Sussex and was educated at Chichester High School and New College, Oxford. After graduation, she spent seven years in publishing. Her bestselling books have sold millions of copies in over 40 countries.^[1]

Kate married old school friend Greg Mosse, after meeting him again twenty years later on a train by chance. Mosse lives with her husband and family in Chichester and Carcassonne.

Career[link]

In 1996 she published her first novel, Eskimo Kissing, about a young, adopted woman searching for her background. This was followed in 1998 by the thriller Crucifix Lane. From 1998 up to 2001, she held her post as the executive director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Meanwhile she also remained engaged in research work for the first of a series of timeslip historical adventure novels set in southwest France in the past and present day. In 2005, the first of the series, Labyrinth, was published. It has sold millions of copies throughout the world, was the bestselling title in the UK for 2006 and won the Richard & Judy Best Book at the British Book Awards 2006. Television rights have been sold to Scott Free and Tandem Communications and is filming in Autumn 2011. The international cast includes John Hurt, Janet Suzman, Jessica Brown Findlay and Sebastian Stan.^[2]

A regular guest on UK radio and television, she presented the BBC Four literary chat show Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and appears on the BBC Breakfast News and BBC2's The Review Show. She is a guest presenter for A Good Read on BBC Radio 4.

In 1996 she co-founded the annual Orange Prize for Fiction, of which she is also the Honorary Director. The Prize celebrates international fiction throughout the world written by women and is anonymously endowed. Previous winners include Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Small Island by Andrea Levy and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

In 2000 she was named European Woman of Achievement for her contribution to the arts.^[3]

In October 2007, the second novel in the Languedoc Trilogy was published. Sepulchre was also a No.1 bestseller in the UK and an international bestseller. The third in the Languedoc trilogy, Citadel will be published in September 2012.

Mosse has also contributed a number of essays and stories to anthologies and collections, including Modern Delight (a book inspired by J. B. Priestley's 1949 book Delight) published by Waterstone's to raise money for Dyslexia Action and the London Library; Little Black Dress (edited by Susie Maguire); Midsummer Nights (edited by Jeanette Winterson), a collection to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Glyndebourne Opera House in East Sussex; The Best Little Book Club in Town in aid of Breast Cancer Care and Why Willows Weep (edited by Tracy Chevalier) in aid of the Woodland Trust (2011).

She writes a regular column for the book trade magazine The Bookseller and is one of the authors leading the campaign against the closure of the UK library service.

In October 2009 she released her latest novel The Winter Ghosts, based on a novella Kate had contributed to the Quick Reads Initiative.

Her first play, Syrinx, was part of the SkyArts Theatre Live project, devised by Sandi Toksvig. First performed in July 2009, it won a broadcasting press publicity award that same year.

Kate Mosse's second play Endpapers was part of the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six. Her monolgue was inspired by the Book of Revelation, the final book in the King James Bible^[4]

In 2012, she will publish an anniversary book to celebrate fifty years of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty is published by the crowd funding publishing company Unbound.^[5]

References[link]

1. ^ Bestselling author, Kate Mosse, talks about her new book, Sepulchre, and her fascination with tarot cards, The Times, 7 June 2008
2. ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-thrones-emun-elliott-john-labyrinth-242059
3. ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5689E3E009d721632CKxP2FFF57F
4. ^ http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/
5. ^ http://www.cft.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=777

External links[link]

• Kate's official UK website
• Kate's official USA website
• Kate Mosse's books on the publisher's website
• Kate's Labyrinth website and blog
• Kate's Sepulchre website and blog
• Interview with Martin Goodman at the Philip Larkin Centre
• Listen to Kate Mosse talking about Sepulchre on The Interview Online
• Audio: Kate Mosse in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum

Look up Kate is a slag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Kate is a feminine given name. It is sometimes a short form of Katherine, which is Greek meaning pure, blessed, virginal and popularity. It may refer to:

People with the given name Kate:

• Kate (given name)

In meteorology:

• Hurricane Kate (1985), which hit the US
• Typhoon Kate (1970), a super typhoon that struck the Philippines

Ships

• CSS Kate was a 165' wooden hulled sidewheel steamer of 477 tons used by the Confederacy as a blockade runner that made 20 successful runs through the Union blockade during the American Civil War.

Other:

• "Kate" a young adult novel by Valerie Sherrard
• Kate (song), a song by Ben Folds Five
• Nakajima B5N, a Japanese torpedo bomber, Allied reporting name "Kate"
• Kate (text editor), a text editor for KDE
• KATE, a radio station in Minnesota, USA
• "Kate" is rhyming slang for Army (it rhymes with Kate Carney)
• An alternative title of Crabbit Old Woman, a poem attributed to Phyllis McCormack
• The Kâte language, a Papuan language

See also[link]

• Catherina (and similar spellings)
• Kathleen

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Claudia Gerini
Born	Claudia Gerini (1971-12-18) 18 December 1971 (age 40) Rome, Italy
Website
http://www.claudiagerini.it/

Claudia Gerini (born 18 December 1971 in Rome) is an Italian actress and showgirl.

Biography[link]

She won National Competition of Miss Teenager in 1985.

She got her first part in a film, La ballata di Eva, at 14. She subsequently played in Ciao mà, Roba da ricchi and Night Club, by Sergio Corbucci, and many others. At 19 she worked for the popular TV show Non è la Rai, a sort of academy with one hundred girls singing, dancing and gaming.

Her first major role was in Il padre e il figlio, directed by Pasquale Pozzessere. She later moved to Paris to learn French for several months, travelling a lot between Italy and France without leaving off University. At 22 she returned to Italy and got a role as protagonist in Angelo e Beatrice, a theatrical work by Francesco Apolloni (writer and director) presented on the stage at the Theater Coliseum in Rome, where director and actor Carlo Verdone noticed her. The encounter with Verdone produced Viaggi di nozze and Sono pazzo di Iris Blond, both Christmas box-office successes.

Gerini later collaborated with Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini, Antonio Rezza and Antonello De Leo, and moved both to Los Angeles, U.S. and Madrid, Spain to improve the respective languages. In Spain she worked for Desafinado by M. G. Pereira and La playa de Los Galagos by M. Camus. Her latest roles include Francesca e Nunziata, directed by Lina Wertmuller, Al cuore si comanda, Non ti muovere, La sconosciuta and the recent Nero bifamiliare, directed by her partner, singer song-writer Federico Zampaglione (Tiromancino).

Selected filmography[link]

• Roba da ricchi (1987)
• Ciao ma' (1988)
• Night Club (1989)
• Madre padrona (1991)
• Gioco perverso (1991)
• Favola crudele (1992)
• L'Atlantide (1992)
• Padre e figlio (Father and Son, 1994)
• L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci (1995)
• Viaggi di nozze (1995)
• Sono pazzo di Iris Blond (I'm Crazy About Iris Blond, 1996)
• Escoriandoli (1996)
• Fuochi d'artificio (Fireworks, 1997)
• Lucignolo (1999)
• La vespa e la regina (1999)
• Deceit (Il gioco, 1999)
• Tutti gli uomini del deficiente (1999)
• Amarsi può darsi (2001)
• HS - hors service (2001)
• Off Key (2001)
• La playa de los galgos (The Beach of the Greyhounds, 2002)
• Al cuore si comanda (2003)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
• The Passion of the Christ (2004)
• Non ti muovere (Don't Move, 2004)
• Guardiani delle nuvole (2004)
• La terra (2006)
• Viaggio segreto (Secret Journey, 2006)
• La sconosciuta (The Unknown Woman, 2006)
• Nero bifamiliare (2007)
• Meno male che ci sei (2009)
• Reality (2011)

External links[link]

• Claudia Gerini at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Site (Italian) (English)