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Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.

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Kevin Crossley-Holland (1941–) Biography

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Children's Literature Review, Volume 47, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998, pp. 18-50.

De Montreville, Doris, and Elizabeth D. Crawford, editors, Fourth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators, H.W. Wilson (Bronx, NY), 1979.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland since 1940, 1985, Volume 161: British Children's Writers since 1960, 1996, pp. 103-108.

St. James Guide to Young-Adult Writers, 2nd edition, edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999, pp. 34-36.

Something about the Author Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1995, pp. 125-140.

Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, 3rd edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1989.

PERIODICALS

Best Sellers, May, 1976, Mary Columba, review of Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons, p. 60.

Booklist, May 15, 1999, GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review of The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales, p. 1694; Nove

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Kevin Crossley-Holland

Born

in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England

February 07, 1941

Website

http://www.kevincrossley-holland.com

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

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Kevin Crossley-Holland is an English poet and prize-winning author for children. His books include Waterslain Angels, a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955, and Moored Man: A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems; Gatty's Tale, a medieval pilgrimage novel; and the Arthur trilogy (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing-Places and King of the Middle March), which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend.

The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.

Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of NoKevin Crossley-Holland is an English poet and prize-winning author for children. His books include Waterslain Angels, a detective story set in no

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Kevin Crossley-Holland (Kevin John William Crossley-Holland) Biography

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(1941– ), (Kevin John William Crossley-Holland), The Rain Giver, The Dream-House, Waterslain

Britishpoet and translator, born in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He became Editorial Director at Victor Gollancz in 1972 and has held various academic posts. His first full collection, The Rain Giver (1972), was followed by several other volumes including The Dream-House (1976), Waterslain (1986), The Painting Room (1988), and New and Selected Poems, 1965–1990 (1991). As a poet, Crossley-Holland is recurrently concerned with locating his personal experience within the historical and topographical landscapes of his work. The principal locus of his later poetry is East Anglia, which is most memorably evoked in Waterslain. In many of his finest poems idiosyncratic rhythms interact with rich patterns of assonance and alliteration to unusually musical effect. Among his highly regarded translations of Old English poetry are Beowulf (1968) and The Exet