Kevin Crossley-Holland
Auteur de The Norse Myths
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Old Stories: Folk Tales from East Anglia and the Fen Country (Dolphin Paperbacks) (1958) 44 exemplaires
The Dark Horseman and Other British and Irish Folktales (Collections Paperbacks) (1995) 5 exemplaires
Digitaal fantasy tekenen alles wat je nodig hebt om een digitale fatasywereld te creëren (2010) 4 exemplaires
Folk tales of Britain: Narratives I, II & III 3 exemplaires
favorite poems that tell stories 2 exemplaires
The Seafarer 2 exemplaires
Ghost Stories (Pt. 1) 1 exemplaire
Artus: Im Schatten des Kreuzes 1 exemplaire
King of the Middle March 1 exemplaire
At the Crossing-Places. 1 exemplaire
The Seeing Stone 1 exemplaire
New Leaves On An Old Tree: A Writer's Portfolio 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem (Arthurian Studies) (1981) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Archipelago: Number Twelve (Summer 2019) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Nom légal
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William
- Autres noms
- Crossley Holland, Kevin
- Date de naissance
- 1941-02-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Mursley, England, UK
Whiteleaf, England, UK
North Norfolk, England, UK - Études
- St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (BA|1962)
- Professions
- translator
children's book author
poet - Relations
- Crossley-Holland, Nicole (stepmother)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Agent
- Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 127
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 10,351
- Popularité
- #2,295
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 180
- ISBN
- 450
- Langues
- 19
- Favoris
- 6