Kevin Crossley-Holland |
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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, a librettist, and a reteller of myth, legend and folk-tale as well as a novelist. He won the Carnegie Medal for Storm and his Beowulf with Charles Keeping is a contemporary classic. He is the author of definitive collections of Norse myths (Viking!) and British and Irish folk-tales (The Magic Lands). His bestselling Arthur trilogy has been published in 22 countries and the first volume, The Seeing Stone, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, a Smarties Prize and the Tir na n-Og award as well as being shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year.
Kevin Crossley-Holland, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is an active promoter of fiction and poetry and is in great demand as a speaker at festivals and book fairs. Educated at Oxford University, he held a university post in Minnesota for some years, and now lives on the North Norfolk coast where he spent much of his childhood.
www.kevincrossley-holland.com
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