1. Kevin John William Crossley-Holland was born on 7 February 1941 and is an English translator, children's author and poet.
14 Facts About Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Kevin Crossley-Holland's best known work is probably the Arthur trilogy, for which he won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and other recognition.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a village in the Chilterns.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland's father was Peter Crossley-Holland, a composer and ethnomusicologist; his mother was the potter and gallerist Joan Crossley-Holland.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland attended Bryanston School in Dorset, followed by St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where after failing his first exams he discovered a passion for Anglo-Saxon literature.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland taught in the midwestern United States as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at St Olaf College, and held an Endowed Chair in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland's writing career began when he became a poetry, fiction, and children's book editor for Macmillan.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland is known for poetry, novels, story collections, and translations, including three editions of the Anglo-Saxon classic Beowulf in 1968 1973, and 1999.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland writes collections of Norse myths and British and Irish folk tales.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland has edited and translated the riddles included in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland has written the libretti for two operas by Nicola LeFanu, The Green Children and The Wildman, and for a chamber opera about Nelson, Haydn, and Emma Hamilton.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland has collaborated several times with the composers Arthur Bliss and William Mathias and has written a stage play, The Wuffings.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland takes a new look at the King Arthur legends, showing a medieval boy's development from a page to a squire and finally to a knight.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland was awarded the 1985 Carnegie Medal and 2007 "Anniversary Top Ten" recognition from British librarians for Storm.