Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet and translator from Anglo-Saxon, a librettist, and a reteller of myth, legend and folk-tale as well as a historical 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 and British and Irish folk-tales. 

His bestselling Arthur trilogy has been translated into 23 languages 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.  This year, his pilgrimage novel, Gatty’s Tale, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and his translations of The Exeter Book Riddles were reissued by Enitharmon.

Kevin’s most recent book Gatty’s Tale is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The story follows the journey of Gatty, a field girl , as she takes part in a pilgrimage from Wales across Europe to Jerusalem in 1203. Kevin is a translator of  Anglo-Saxon – including the tales of Beowolf -  and has retold Norse myths and British folk tales. Kevin’s fascination with mythological and traditional storytelling has informed much of his writing. The Arthur trilogy combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend with obsidian stone at its heart. The review by Philip Pullman should tempt anyone to read it:
 
...as bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this: I was spellbound.'
 
Philip Pullman, The Guardian Children's Book Supplement
 
To find out more about Kevin’s impressive range of work take a look at his website