Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born February 7, 1941, in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English poet, translator, children's author, and reteller of myths and legends, best known for his Arthur trilogy (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing-Places, King of the Middle March), which has been translated into 25 languages, and his translations of Beowulf. He won the Carnegie Medal for Storm (1985), named one of the top ten winning works in 2007, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Tir na n-Og Award for The Seeing Stone, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.