Patricia Crampton

Patricia Crampton is a prize-winning British literary translator, including of children's literature.^[1] She studied at Oxford University and served as a translator at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. She has translated over 200 children's books and over 50 adult novels, winning many awards in the process.

Awards and Honours

The Marsh Award is conferred upon the translator by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (British). The Batchelder Award is conferred upon the publisher by the Association for Library Service to Children (American Library Association).

• Won the 1999 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
• Won the 1987 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolph Frank
• Won the 1984 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
• Won the 1984 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Selected works

• Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren - winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1984)^[2]
• Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer - winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (1984)
• No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolph Frank - winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1987)
• The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang - winner of the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1999)
• The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl
• No Roof in Bosnia by Els de Groen

References

1. Profile
2. Mildred L. Batchelder Award

External links

• Search results for Patricia Crampton at the British Library catalogue
• Search results for 'patricia crampton' at Worldcat
• Books by Patricia Crampton at GoodReads.com
• Patricia Crampton at Library of Congress Authorities, with 13 catalogue records