| Kevin Crossley-Holland
Winner: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Winner: Carnegie Medal
Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in 1941 in Mursley, North
Buckinghamshire, and grew up in Whiteleaf, a village in
the Chiltern hills of western England. He attended Oxford
University, where after failing his first exams, he developed
his passion for Anglo-Saxon literature. After graduating,
he was the Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of
Leeds, and from 1972–1977, he lectured in Anglo-Saxon
for the Tufts University of London program. He worked as
a children's book editor while beginning to write his own
poems and reinterpretations of medieval legends. He has
also taught for extended periods in America. He now lives
in Norfolk, England.
Kevin Crossley-Holland has published six volumes of adult
poetry and several libretti for opera. In the world of children's
books, he is best known for his numerous retellings and
anthologies, and in particular his version of Beowulf. "Storm,"
his novella, won the Carnegie Medal in 1985.
In the world of children's books he is best known for his
numerous retellings and anthologies, and in particular for
his Arthur trilogy.
[thanks to the ACHUKA site for photo]
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