Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Crossley-Holland at Vienna International School in 2012
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7 February 1941 Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Translator, Poet, Author |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Arthur Trilogy |
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Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet. His best known work may now be the Arthur trilogy, published around age sixty (2000–2003), for which he won the Guardian Prize and other recognition.
Crossley-Holland and his 1985 novella Storm won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.
Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Crossley-Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns. His father was Peter Crossley-Holland, a composer and ethnomusicologist. He 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. After graduating he became the Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds and from 1972 to 1977 he lectured in Anglo-Saxon for the Tufts University London programme. He also taught in the midwestern United States as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at St. Olaf College, as well as holding an Endowed Chair in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota.
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