Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning writer for children, a
well-known poet and author of a memoir of childhood, The Hidden
Roads, praised by Rowan Williams as 'A lovely, poignant book,
not wasting a word and evoking place in a deep way.'
His ghost story Storm was awarded the Carnegie Medal while
The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction
Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award.
The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and
has been translated into twenty-five languages and its successor,
Gatty's Tale was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and
two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor). He is an Honorary Fellow of St
Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, the
European Storytelling Archive, and the Story Museum, a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and was President of the School
Library Association (2012 - 2015). He has been awarded Honorary
Doctorates by Anglia Ruskin University and the University of
Worcester.
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
