Kevin Crossley-Holland
Autor(a) de The Norse Myths
About the Author
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet, a prize-winning children's author, and a translator. Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf and The Exeter Book of Riddles from the Anglo-Saxon. He has collaborated with composers Nicola Lefanu (The Green Children and The Wildman), Rupert Bawden (The mostrar mais Sailor's Tale), Sir Arthur Bliss, William Mathias, and Stephen Paulus. Crossley-Holland's book The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The trilogy has won critical acclaim and been translated into twenty-five languages. His recent and forthcoming books are The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, Bracelet of Bones and his new and selected poems The Mountains of Norfolk. Crossley-Holland often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council and offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia with his wife and children. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Old Stories: Folk Tales from East Anglia and the Fen Country (Dolphin Paperbacks) (1958) 44 exemplares
The fox and the cat : Kevin Crossley-Holland's Animal tales from Grimm ; illustrated by Susan Varley (1985) 25 exemplares
The Dark Horseman and Other British and Irish Folktales (Collections Paperbacks) (1995) 5 exemplares
Digitaal fantasy tekenen alles wat je nodig hebt om een digitale fatasywereld te creëren (2010) 4 exemplares
Folk tales of Britain: Narratives I, II & III 3 exemplares
The Seafarer 2 exemplares
The Seeing Stone 1 exemplar
At the Crossing-Places. 1 exemplar
King of the Middle March 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem (Arthurian Studies) (1981) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Archipelago: Number Twelve (Summer 2019) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Nome legal
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William
- Outros nomes
- Crossley Holland, Kevin
- Data de nascimento
- 1941-02-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Mursley, England, UK
Whiteleaf, England, UK
North Norfolk, England, UK - Educação
- St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (BA|1962)
- Ocupações
- translator
children's book author
poet - Relações
- Crossley-Holland, Nicole (stepmother)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2001)
Tir na n-Og Award (2001)
Smarties Prize Bronze Medal (2000)
Carnegie Medal (1985)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1998) - Agente
- Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 123
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 10,243
- Popularidade
- #2,317
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 178
- ISBN
- 449
- Línguas
- 19
- Marcado como favorito
- 6