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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.〔 ==Life and career== 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. Crossley-Holland's writing career began when he became a poetry, fiction, and children’s book editor for Macmillan Publishers. He was later editorial director for Victor Gollancz. He is known for poetry, novels, story collections, and translations, including three editions of the Anglo-Saxon classic ''Beowulf'' in 1968〔With illustrations by Brigitte Hanff; introduction by Bruce Mitchell. London: Macmillan, 1968〕 1973,〔Illustrations by Virgil Burnett; introduction by Bruce Mitchell. London: Folio Society, 1973. ISBN 0-85067-066-7〕 and 1999.〔Edited by Heather O'Donoghue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-283320-4〕 Some of his books, including the Arthur trilogy, reinterpret medieval legends. He also writes definitive collections of Norse myths (''The Penguin Book of Norse Myths'') and British and Irish folk tales (''The Magic Lands: Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland''). ''Bracelet of Bones'', the first of his Viking sagas, was published in 2011, as was ''The Mountains of Norfolk: New and Selected Poems''. He has edited and translated the riddles included in the Anglo-Saxon ''Exeter Book''. Crossley-Holland has also written the libretti for two operas by Nicola LeFanu, ''The Green Children'' (1966) and ''The Wildman'' (1976), and for a chamber opera about Nelson, Haydn, and Emma Hamilton. He has collaborated several times with the composers Arthur Bliss and William Mathias and has written a stage play, ''The Wuffings'' (1999). Crossley-Holland lives on the North Norfolk coast, where he spent some of his childhood. His autobiography, ''The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood'', was published in 2009.〔Crossley-Holland, Kevin (2009). ''The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood''. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-736-0.〕 In 2012 he took up the honorary post of President of the School Library Association.〔(Enitharmon Press: Kevin Crossley-Holland to become SLA President in 2012 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Crossley-Holland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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