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Kevin Crossley-Holland

English translator, children's author and poet (born 1941)

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet.

His best known work is probably the Arthur trilogy (2000–2003),[1] for which he won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize[2] and other recognition.

Crossley-Holland won the annual Carnegie Medal for his 1985 novella Storm.[3] For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works.[4]

Life and career

Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire.

He grew up in Whiteleaf, a village in the Chilterns. His father was Peter Crossley-Holland, a composer and ethnomusicologist; his mother was the potter and gallerist Joan Crossley-Holland (née Cowper).[5][6] He attended Bryanston School in Dorset, followed by St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where after failing his first exa

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